Daily vs Daywork - What's the difference?
daily | daywork |
quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day
* Bible, Matthew vi. 11
* Macaulay
* Milton
diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly
quotidianly, every day
diurnally, by daylight
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.
Work carried out or paid for on a daily basis; day labour.
Work done during the day; specifically, the cover-work carried out by someone involved in intelligence work, as opposed to their secret activities.
*1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 257:
*:‘The task of servicing such moles is not entrusted to normal overseas residencies but to a Karla representative, as he is known, usually a military officer, whose daywork is to be an attaché of an Embassy.’
As nouns the difference between daily and daywork
is that daily is a newspaper that is published every day while daywork is .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
(-)- Give us this day our daily bread.
- Bunyan has told us that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
- Man hath his daily work of body or mind / Appointed, which declares his dignity, / And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.