Day vs Sol - What's the difference?
day | sol |
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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, 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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(rare) To spend a day (in a place).
* 2008 , Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes , page 233:
(music) The fifth step in the scale of C (Ut), preceded by fa and followed by la.
(label) A solar day on Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
gold
A Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol ) , or a coin of this value.
* (rfdate), M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana :
A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
In astronomy terms the difference between day and sol
is that day is rotational period of a planet (especially Earth) while sol is a solar day on Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).In lang=en terms the difference between day and sol
is that day is to spend a day (in a place) while sol is the fifth step in the solfège scale of C (Ut), preceded by fa and followed by la.As a verb day
is to spend a day (in a place).As an adjective SOL is
shit out of luck.day
English
Alternative forms
* daie (archaic)Noun
(en noun)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 * WednesdayVerb
(en verb)- When I nighted and dayed in Damascus town,
See also
*Statistics
*sol
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist all note names were take from.Alternative forms
* so, sohNoun
(-)Etymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
See also
* Sol * yestersolEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Three days after, the Great Sun, his brother, sent me another deer-skin of the same oil, to the quantity of forty pints. The most common sort sold this year at twenty sols a pint, and I was sure mine was not of the worst kind.