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Daily vs Daybook - What's the difference?

daily | daybook |

As nouns the difference between daily and daybook

is that daily is a newspaper that is published every day while daybook is a daily chronicle; a diary.

As an adjective daily

is quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day.

As an adverb daily

is quotidianly, every day.

daily

English

Adjective

(-)
  • quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 11
  • Give us this day our daily bread.
  • * Macaulay
  • Bunyan has told us that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
  • * Milton
  • Man hath his daily work of body or mind / Appointed, which declares his dignity, / And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.
  • diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • quotidianly, every day
  • diurnally, by daylight
  • Noun

    (dailies)
  • a newspaper that is published every day.
  • (UK) a cleaner who comes in daily.
  • (UK, slang) a daily disposable.
  • (video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
  • Synonyms

    * daily help * daily maid (woman only)

    See also

    * quotidian * everyday

    daybook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A daily chronicle; a diary.
  • *1992 , Cinthia Gannett, Gender and the journal: diaries and academic discourse :
  • It was a working document, a sort of lab notebook, and since I have called it a daybook', it has become the most valuable resource I have It takes me about six weeks to fill a ' daybook , and when I'm finished with one I go back through it and pick out anything that I need to work on in the next book.
  • *2001 , Janice Elsheimer, The Creative Call: An Artist's Response to the Way of the Spirit :
  • I try to get up thirty minutes before anyone else in my house in order to have my daybook writing time.
  • *2001 , Vicki Spandel, Ruth G. Nathan, Laura Robb, Daybook of critical reading and writing :
  • Why is it called a Daybook'? A ' Daybook traditionally is "a book in which daily transactions are recorded," but nowadays it is being used to mean "a journal."
  • *2003 , Jim Burke, The Teacher's Daybook 2003–2004 :
  • This is how I use my Daybook': I sit down on Sunday and think about the week ahead. I begin by identifying the major ... When I get home on Monday, I revisit my ' Daybook , consider what happened that day and what I want to happen the rest [...]
  • (bookkeeping) A ledger; an accounting journal.
  • *1920 , George Edward Bennett, Accounting: principles and practice :
  • Since these memoranda were marked down from day to day and the entries followed one another day by day, this first book of accounts was called a "daybook ."
  • (nautical) A logbook.