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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A newspaper that is published every day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("daily" is a kind of...):
newspaper; paper (a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
Example:
everyday clothes
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
informal (not formal)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or belonging to or occurring every day
Example:
a daily paper
Synonyms:
daily; day-after-day; day-by-day; day-to-day
Classified under:
Similar:
periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)
Derivation:
day (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Every day; without missing a day
Example:
he stops by daily
Classified under:
Pertainym:
daily (of or belonging to or occurring every day)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Gradually and progressively
Example:
his health weakened day by day
Synonyms:
daily; day by day
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Context examples:
The new moon on November 26 will fall in Sagittarius at four degrees, and it will go much further to jazz your daily work sector.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Instead, it lasts a long time and limits your ability to do ordinary daily activities.
(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
She generally came at the hour when Mr. Rivers was engaged in giving his daily catechising lesson.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The first signs of reawakening came when he discovered more than languid interest in the daily paper.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I admit that the paper was exuberant in the matter, out of compliment to its own enterprise in sending a correspondent, but the other great dailies were hardly less full in their account.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The fundamental nutritional components that constitute an organism's daily intake of foodstuffs.
(Basal Diet, NCI Thesaurus)
The device, which is called a prosthesis, can help you to perform daily activities such as walking, eating, or dressing.
(Artificial Limbs, NIH)
My master added, that he was daily pressed by the Houyhnhnms of the neighbourhood to have the assembly’s exhortation executed, which he could not put off much longer.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
An observational assessment that is used to measure the quality of a person's activities of daily living (ADL).
(Assessment of Motor and Process Skills, NCI Thesaurus)
In her daily ministrations upon the prisoner she was forced to grit her teeth and steel herself, body and spirit.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
