| 释义 |
day
I. \ˈdā\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English dæg; akin to Old High German tag day, Old Norse dagr, Gothic dags, Old English dōgor day, Old Norse dœgr, dœgn twelve-hour period, day, night; all probably from a prehistoric Germanic blend of a form or forms akin to Sanskrit ahn-, ahar twelve-hour period, day, night and a form or forms akin to Latin fovēre to warm, Greek tephra ashes, Sanskrit dahati he burns
1. : the time of light or interval between one night and the next : the time between sunrise and sunset or from dawn to darkness
2. : the period of the earth's rotation on its axis ordinarily divided into 24 hours, measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and taking a specific name from that of the body — see solar day, mean solar day, sidereal day
3.
a. : civil day
b. among most modern nations : the mean solar day of 24 hours beginning at mean midnight
4.
a. : a day set aside for a particular purpose
< rent day >
< Monday is wash day >
b. sometimes capitalized
(1) : a date on which some notable event occurred or on which the occurrence of a notable event is celebrated
< your wedding day >
< New Year's Day >
(2) : a particular day that is identified by reference to or that is commonly associated with some unique historical event
< Pearl Harbor Day >
c. : the conflict or contention of the day
< he was confident he could carry the day >
d. archaic : one's set day of the week or month for receiving callers
e. Scotland : today — used with the
f. sometimes capitalized : a date on which some major event is expected to occur — used with the
< socialists of the eighties and nineties who … yearned for The Day — E.R.Bentley >
5. : daylight
< at the break of day >
6.
a. : the period of the existence or prominence of a person or thing : age — usually used in plural
< in the days of sailing ships >
b. : the term of one's career, activity, or life : lifetime
< grandfather's stories about sports in his day >
: the time during which one's life continues — used in plural
< the general's last days >
7.
a. : a unit of distance traversed in an ordinary day's travel
< a ship two days out of port >
b. : a unit consisting of the labor or output of one individual in one day
8. obsolete
a. : a period of grace especially for debtors
b. : a space of time
9.
a. : the hours or the daily recurring period established by usage or law for work
< an 8-hour day >
b. : a trading session on an exchange
< a 3,000,000-share day >
c. : a conventional unit for calculating pay of railroad employees based on hours worked and distance run
10. : a division of a window : light
11. : the time required by a celestial body in turning once on its axis
< the moon's day is 27 solar days >
12. : the surface of the ground over a mine
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- day after day
- day in, day out
- from day to day
- this day week
- without day
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
archaic : to measure by the day |