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day | presently |

As an adjective day

is thick, deep, dense.

As an adverb presently is

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day

English

Alternative forms

* daie (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any period of 24 hours.
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  • A period from midnight to the following midnight.
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  • (lb) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).
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  • The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
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  • Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams,
  • A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
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  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
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  • *:If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day , at least they did not have less.
  • A period of contention of a day or less.
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    • Derived terms

    * a broken clock is right twice a day * all-day * as the day is long * calendar day * Canada Day * daily * day after day * day-after-day * daybreak * daydream * daycare, day care * * day job * day laborer * day letter * daylight * daylily * day-neutral * day nursery * day off * day of reckoning * day one * day return * day school * daystar * daytime * day to day * day-to-day * day trader * day trip * day boarder * day bed * degree-day * dollar day * every dog has its day * field day * flag day, Flag Day * Friday * have its day * have seen one's day * holiday * holy day * judgment day * latter-day * Monday * payday * present-day * rainy day * Saturday * save the day * sick day * Sunday * Thursday * tomorrow is another day * Tuesday * Victoria day * Wednesday

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To spend a day (in a place).
  • * 2008 , Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes , page 233:
    • When I nighted and dayed in Damascus town,

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    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • *~1600 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act 3,
  • *:Polonius : My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently .
  • *(The Bible) : (w) xxi. 19:
  • *:And presently the fig tree withered away.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, Vol.1, p.219:
  • *:the butler supposing the Wine had beene so carefully commended unto him for the goodnesse of it, imediately presented some unto the Pope, who whilest he was drinking, his sonne came in and never imagining his bottles had beene toucht, tooke the cup and pledged his father, so that the Pope died presently ; and the sonne, after he had long time beene tormented with sicknesse, recovered to another worse fortune.
  • Before long; soon.
  • *1646 , (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) , I.3:
  • *:Itis the greatest example of lenity in our Saviour, when he desired of God forgiveness unto those, who having one day brought him into the City in triumph, did presently after, act all dishonour upon him, and nothing could be heard but, Crucifige , in their Courts.
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  • *:But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
  • *1940 , (Raymond Chandler), , Penguin 2010, p.55:
  • *:‘I shall presently be getting a call to tell me of that.’
  • At the present time; now; currently.
  • *Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
  • *:The towns and forts you presently have.
  • *1891 , The Welsh Review, No.1 (November 1891). "A Word to the Welsh People." p.1:
  • *:To all of you, therefore, who call Wales your motherland, whether you presently inhabit some other portion of the globe or breathe the air of your cloud-kissed country.
  • *Bishop (Stephen Gardiner) (1483-1555)
  • *:His precious body and blood presently three.

    • Usage notes

    * Some older usage guides, especially for UK English, object to the sense (now), though most major modern dictionaries do not.