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Daily vs Hourly - What's the difference?

daily | hourly |

As adjectives the difference between daily and hourly

is that daily is quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day while hourly is that happens every hour.

As adverbs the difference between daily and hourly

is that daily is quotidianly, every day while hourly is at intervals of an hour.

As nouns the difference between daily and hourly

is that daily is a newspaper that is published every day while hourly is something produced each hour.

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

    hourly

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That happens every hour
  • There are hourly express buses.
  • Non-salaried, blue-collared
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • At intervals of an hour.
  • Express buses depart hourly .

    Noun

    (hourlies)
  • Something produced each hour.
  • She never reads her hourly report, but let her hourlies be fifteen minutes late and she raises a ruckus.
    English frequency adverbs