dayˈbreak noun

Dawn

day care noun

Daytime supervision and help given by trained nursing and other staff to a group of pre-school children, or elderly or disabled people

day care centre or day centre noun

A centre which provides social amenities and/or supervision for elderly or disabled people, vagrants, alcoholics, petty offenders, etc

dayˈ-coal noun

The upper stratum of coal

dayˈdream noun

A pleasant fantasy or reverie (also intransitive verb)

dayˈdreamer noun

dayˈflower noun

A tropical plant of the Commelina genus with fast-wilting blue flowers

dayˈ-fly noun

A mayfly

day hospital noun

A hospital where patients receive treatment or therapy during the day and return home or to another hospital at night

dayˈ-lāˈbour noun

Labour paid by the day

dayˈ-lāˈbourer noun

dayˈ-length noun (botany)

The number of hours of daylight in a day, a trigger for flowering in some plants

dayˈ-level noun (mining)

A level driven from the surface

dayˈlight noun

1. The light of day
2. A clear space

daylight lamp noun (physics)

A lamp which emits light of wavelengths similar to those of ordinary daylight

daylight robbery see under rob¹

dayˈlight-savˈing noun

Increasing the amount of daylight available for work or play, by advancing the clock, usu by one hour

Daylight Saving Time noun

The time adopted for daylight-saving purposes

day lily noun

A plant (genus Hemerocallis) whose blossoms last only for a day

dayˈlong adjective

During the whole day

dayˈmark noun

An unlighted sea-mark

day name noun (W Afr)

A personal name given to indicate the day of the week on which the person was born

day-neutral plant noun (botany)

A plant in which flowering is not sensitive to day-length

day nursery noun

A place where young children are cared for while their parents work

day of action noun

A day designated by an organization for industrial action, demonstrations, etc in support of a cause

Day of Atonement noun

Yom Kippur

day off noun

A day's holiday

Day of Judgement noun

The day of God's final judgement on mankind

dayˈ-old adjective

One day old

day one noun

1. The first day
2. The very beginning

day out noun

1. A day spent away from home for pleasure, as a holiday, etc
2. A servant's free day (archaic)

dayˈpack noun (US)

A daysack

dayˈ-patient noun

A hospital patient who attends for treatment (eg minor surgery) and goes home the same day

dayˈ-peep noun (literary; Milton)

Dawn

day release noun

A system by which workers are freed from employment during the day so as to attend an educational course

day-releaseˈ adjective

day return noun

1. A usu reduced rail or bus fare for a journey to a place and back on the same day
2. A ticket for this type of journey

day room noun

A room used as a communal living room in a school, hospital or hostel, etc

dayˈsack noun

A small rucksack for use on short walks or hikes

dayˈsailor or dayˈsailer noun

A dayboat powered by sail

dayˈ-scholar noun

A pupil who attends a boarding school during the school-hours, but lives at home (also dayˈ-boy or dayˈ-girl)

day school noun

A school held during the day, as opposed both to a night school and to a boarding school

day shift noun

1. A group of workers that takes its turn during the day
2. The daytime period of work

dayˈ-sight noun

Night-blindness

daysˈman noun (archaic)

1. A person who appoints a day to hear a cause
2. An umpire

Days of Awe plural noun

High Holidays (qv under high¹)

days of grace plural noun

Three days allowed for payment of bills, etc beyond the day named

dayˈspring noun (literary)

Dawn

dayˈstar noun

1. The morning star
2. The sun (poetic)

day surgery noun

Minor surgery that is carried out in hospital on a patient who goes home the same day

dayˈtale /-tāl or -təl/ or dāˈtal /-təl/ noun (old)

Reckoning by the day, esp of work or wages

dayˈtaler or daˈtaller /-təl-ər/ noun

A day-labourer

dayˈtime noun

1. The time of daylight
2. Day as opposed to evening and night

adjective

Happening during the day

dayˈ-to-dayˈ adjective

1. Daily, routine
2. Short-term

day trader noun

A person who buys and sells securities on the same day with a view to making quick profits from price movements

day trading noun

day trip noun

A trip made to somewhere and back within one day

dayˈ-tripper noun

dayˈwear noun

Clothes intended for wearing during the day or informally

dayˈ-weaˈried adjective (Shakespeare)

Wearied with the work of the day

dayˈ-work noun

all in a (or the) day's work

A normal or acceptable part of one's job or of what one is doing

at the end of the day (informal)

When all is said and done

back in the day (informal)

At some earlier time

call it a day

To announce a decision to cease

day about

On alternate days

day by day

Daily

day in, day out

For an indefinite succession of days

from day to day

Concerned only with the present

have had its (or one's) day

To have become worn-out or useless

in the cold light of day

In full and impartial knowledge of the facts

in this day and age

At the present time

knock or beat the (living) daylights out of (informal)

To beat severely

make someone's day

To make the day memorable for someone

one day or one of these days

At some indefinite time in the (near) future

scare the (living) daylights out of (informal)

To terrify

see daylight

To arrive at some comprehension, illumination or prospect of a solution

that will be the day (informal)

That is very unlikely

the day

1. The time spoken of or expected
2. Today (Scot)

the day after the fair

Too late

the other day

Not long ago

the time of day

1. The hour of the clock
2. A greeting

those were the days

Those times were the best

win the day

To gain the victory