Meaning of day in English

Examples of day

day
Eggs are shed on the day of use.
One male was used on each experimental day.
An alternating pattern may result, for example, from a cyclic component with a period of about 2 days; persisting patterns may arise in several ways.
Broadcasting of the fertilizer in flooded rice fields is easy and can be done in less than a day for an entire hectare.
The target dose for purely ocular myasthenia is up to 0.75 mg/kg bodyweight on alternate days.
If hemodynamic stability can be achieved, sinus rhythm returns in the vast majority of patients spontaneously within a few days after surgery.
He fell again a few days later and returned with a second confirmed spinal fracture requiring cervical fusion.
We replaced one of the scheduled formal discussions with two parallel informal discussions in the day room to explore the impact of context.
The olives (four per container) were replaced every other day.
A single leaf was placed in each pot containing larvae and this was replaced every second day.
Trimedlure emitters from the barrier and the monitoring traps were replaced every two months and tri-pack attractants and dichlorvos strips were replaced every 45 days.
The pieces of maize stems were replaced once every two days.
In both years, the sticky flypaper was replaced every two days.
The food/water mixture was replaced every other day.
On average, there are 10 requests per day.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
 

Translations of day

in Chinese (Traditional)
一天,一日, 白天,白晝, 工作天…
in Chinese (Simplified)
一天,一日, 白天,白昼, 工作日…
in Spanish
día, día [masculine], jornada [feminine]…
in Portuguese
dia, jornada, dia [masculine]…
in more languages
in Japanese
in Turkish
in French
in Catalan
in Dutch
in Arabic
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Korean
in Ukrainian
in Italian
in Russian
日, 昼間, (仕事、学校の)一日…
gün, gündüz, gün boyu…
jour [masculine], journée [feminine], époque [feminine]…
dia…
dag, tijd…
يَوْم, نَهار, يَوم العَمَل…
den, doba, časy…
dag, -dag, døgn…
siang, hari, zaman…
กลางวัน, ตอนกลางวัน, วัน…
ban ngày, ngày, thời buổi…
dzień…
hari, zaman…
der Tag, die Tage (pl.)…
dag [masculine], døgn [neuter], tid [masculine]…
하루, 날, 낮…
день, доба, період…
giorno, giornata, tempi…
день, сутки, рабочий день…
Need a translator?

Get a quick, free translation!

 

Word of the Day

longitude

UK
/ˈlɒŋ.ɡɪ.tʃuːd/
US
/ˈlɑːn.dʒə.tuːd/

the distance of a place east or west of an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole, measured in degrees

About this

New Words

More new words
has been added to list
Follow us
Choose a dictionary
  • Recent and Recommended
  • Definitions
    Clear explanations of natural written and spoken English
    English Learner’s Dictionary Essential British English Essential American English
  • Grammar and thesaurus
    Usage explanations of natural written and spoken English
    Grammar Thesaurus
  • Pronunciation
    British and American pronunciations with audio
    English Pronunciation
  • Translation
    Click on the arrows to change the translation direction.
    Bilingual Dictionaries
    • English–Dutch Dutch–English
    • English–French French–English
    • English–German German–English
    • English–Indonesian Indonesian–English
    • English–Italian Italian–English
    • English–Japanese Japanese–English
    • English–Norwegian Norwegian–English
    • English–Polish Polish–English
    • English–Portuguese Portuguese–English
    • English–Spanish Spanish–English
    Semi-bilingual Dictionaries
    English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Chinese (Simplified) English–Chinese (Traditional) English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–Vietnamese
  • Dictionary +Plus
    Word Lists
My word lists

Add day to one of your lists below, or create a new one.

More
Go to your word lists
Tell us about this example sentence: