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Diary vs Diarylike - What's the difference?

diary | diarylike |

As adjectives the difference between diary and diarylike

is that diary is (obsolete) lasting for one day while diarylike is resembling or characteristic of a diary.

As a noun diary

is a daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.

diary

English

(Personal journal)

Noun

(diaries)
  • A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
  • The method or media used to keep such experiences.
    • They kept separate diaries'''. His was on paper and her '''diary was on her computer's hard drive.
  • (British, Canada) A calendar or appointment book.

    • Synonyms

    * daybook * journal

    Derived terms

    * diarist

    Related terms

    * diurnal * journal

    Coordinate terms

    * calendar * daybook * chronicle * log

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Lasting for one day.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The offer of a usurpation, though it was but as a diary ague.

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    * dairy

    diarylike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of a diary.
  • * 1990 , Roy Jay Nelson, Causality and narrative in French fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet
    • Is it just an odd coincidence that the first event of the diarylike text is also the earliest element of the prosecutor's case?

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