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Sunday vs Sundry - What's the difference?

sunday | sundry |

As nouns the difference between sunday and sundry

is that sunday is the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard, or the first day of the week in many religious traditions. The Sabbath for most Christians; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday while sundry is a minor miscellaneous item.

As an adverb Sunday

is on Sunday.

As an adjective sundry is

separate; distinct; diverse.

sunday

English

(Week-day names)

Noun

(Sundays)
  • The seventh day of the week in systems using the standard, or the first day of the week in many religious traditions. The Sabbath for most Christians; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport , url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18181971 , page= , passage=And after missing a simple header in the first half, the Manchester United striker ensured England topped Group D to set up a quarter-final meeting with Italy in Kiev on Sunday .}}
  • (informal) A newspaper published on Sunday.
  • * 1974 , John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    • I gave him the switchboard with my love, went down to the Savoy for breakfast and read the Sundays .

    Derived terms

    {{der3, Advent Sunday , Albless Sunday, Alb Sunday , a month of Sundays , Antipascha Sunday , Ascension Sunday , Black Sunday , Bloody Sunday , Branch Sunday , cannonball Sunday , Cantate Sunday , Care Sunday , Carling Sunday , Chestnut Sunday , Christmas Sunday , Cold Sunday , Communion Sunday , Divine Mercy Sunday , Easter Sunday , Expectation Sunday , Fast Sunday , Fig Sunday , Garland Sunday , Gaudete Sunday , God's Sunday , Good Shepherd Sunday , Greasy Sunday , Hall' Sunday , Hospital Sunday , Jubilate Sunday , Judica Sunday , Justice Sunday , Laetare Sunday , Low Sunday , Mid-fast Sunday , Mid-Lent Sunday , Mothering Sunday , never in a month of Sundays , Oculi Sunday , Palm Sunday , Passion Sunday , Plough Sunday , Quadragesima Sunday , Quasimodo Sunday , Quinquagesima Sunday , Racial Justice Sunday , Refreshment Sunday , Remembrance Sunday , Rogation Sunday , rope yarn Sunday , Rose Sunday , Rush-bearing Sunday , Saint Sunday , Scout Sunday , Seedy Sunday , Selection Sunday , Septuagesima Sunday , Sexagesima Sunday , Shrove Sunday , six ways to Sunday , Stir-up Sunday , Suicide Sunday , Sun, , sundae , Sunday baby , Sunday best, Sunday's best , Sunday child , Sunday Christian , Sunday closing law , Sunday clothes , Sunday comics , Sunday dinner , Sunday driver , Sundayed , Sunday face , Sundayfied , Sunday funnies , Sunday-going , Sunday-go-to-meeting , Sunday gravy , Sunday in Sexagesima , Sundayish , Sundayism , Sunday joint , Sunday letter , Sunday lunch , Sundayly , Sunday man , Sunday motorist , Sunday observance , Sunday out , Sunday painter , Sunday paper , Sunday punch , Sunday roast , Sundays , Sunday saint , Sunday salt , Sunday's child , Sunday's daughter , Sunday school , Sunday shopping , Sunday strip , Sunday supplement , Sunday throat , Sunday trading , , Sunday within the Octave of Christmas , Super Bowl Sunday , Super Sunday , Tap-up Sunday , Tradition Sunday , Trinity Sunday , Vocations Sunday , Wentsunday , when two Sundays come together, when two Sundays meet , White Sunday , Whit Sunday, Whitsunday , World Communion Sunday}}

    Adverb

    (-)
  • On Sunday

    • See also

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    sundry

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (dialectal)

    Adjective

  • (obsolete) Separate; distinct; diverse.
  • (obsolete) Individual; one for each.
  • Several; diverse; more than one or two; various.
  • Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; miscellaneous.

    • Synonyms

    * assorted, divers, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, heterogeneous

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Noun

    (sundries)
  • (usually, in the plural) A minor miscellaneous item.
  • * 1865 , , Crosspatch, the Cricket, and the Counterpane , page 16,
    • Here she kept her scarlet cloak, her Sunday shoes, her best cap and apron, and her steeple-crowned hat; but down at the very bottom, underneath her new checked petticoat, she found a little bag of sundries , which might serve her purpose, and which she sat down to examine at her leisure.
  • * 1924 March, Advertisement, , page 192,
    • Our big free catalog illustrates and describes parts, equipment and sundries that our more than a million riders may need.
  • * 1931 June, Advertisement, , page 54,
    • It pays you to buy from Bicycle Specialists We have been in business 40 years, and can offer you positively the lowest prices for high-grade bicycles, tires and sundries .
  • (in the plural, accounting) A category for irregular or miscellaneous items not otherwise classified.
  • * 1905 , William Mott Steuart (United States Bureau of the Census), Special Reports: Mines and quarries 1902 , page 476,
    • Miscellaheous expenses ,—This item includes rent and royalties of all descriptions, “taxes, insurance, interest, advertising, office supplies, law expenses, injuries and damages, telegraph and telephone service, gas, and all other sundries not reported elsewhere.”
  • * 1910 , William Mott Steuart, Thomas Commerford Martin (United States Bureau of the Census), Street and Electric Railways 1907 , page 181,
    • In 1902 franchise values were largely carried as sundries , but it is a very common practice to charge these values to cost of construction and equipment.
  • * 2009 , Neville Box, VCE Accounting Units 3 & 4 , 4th Edition, unnumbered page,
    • Any payment listed in the Sundries column must be posted individually to the appropriate ledger account.
  • * 2011 , Robert Rodgers, Peter Lucas, Bookkeeping and Accounting Essentials , page 105,
    • The petty cash book classifies payments as petrol and oils, postage, office, sundries and GST paid.
  • (usually, in the plural, cricket, chiefly, Australia) An extra.
  • * 1954 , Percy Taylor, Richmond?s 100 years of cricket: The Story of the Richmond Cricket Club, 1854-1954 , unidentified page,
    • The wicketkeeper for Williamstown had a bad day, as sundries topped the score with 30.
  • * 1998 , , The Art of Cricket , page 167,
    • In the modern era I sometimes feel the emphasis has erroneously shifted towards placing unwarranted importance on how few sundries are recorded.
  • * 1999 , Ashok Kumar, DPH Sports Series: Cricket , Discovery Publishing House, India, page 145,
    • As for sundries , these are very often caused by erratic bowling or a nasty pitch.

    Related terms

    * all and sundry * various and sundry