What is the difference between yesterday and today?
yesterday | today |
The day immediately before today; one day ago.
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
, title=
, passage=Yesterday , upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}
The (recent) past, often disparaging.
* 1606 (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth) , 5.5
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= On the day before today
As soon as possible
On the current day or date.
In the current era; nowadays.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title=[http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21579879-buy-out-firm-really-does-focus-operational-improvements-engineers Engineers of a different kind]
, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
A current day or date.
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
, title=
, passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}
As nouns the difference between yesterday and today
is that yesterday is the day immediately before today; one day ago while today is a current day or date.As adverbs the difference between yesterday and today
is that yesterday is on the day before today while today is on the current day or date.yesterday
English
Noun
(en noun)- All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday , of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}