dai·ly

[dey-lee] adjective, noun, plural dai·lies, adverb
adjective
1.
of, done, occurring, or issued each day or each weekday: daily attendance; a daily newspaper.
2.
computed or measured by the day: daily quota; a daily wage.
noun
3.
a newspaper appearing each day or each weekday.
4.
dailies, Movies. a series of hastily printed shots from the previous day's shooting, selected by the director to be viewed for possible inclusion in the final version of the film; rushes.
5.
British.
a.
a nonresident servant who comes to work every day; a permanently employed servant who sleeps out.
b.
a person employed to do cleaning or other household work by the day.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
adverb
6.
every day; day by day: She phoned the hospital daily.

Origin:
before 1000; late Middle English; Old English dæglīc. See day, -ly

dai·li·ness, noun
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daily (ˈdeɪlɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
1.  of or occurring every day or every weekday: a daily paper
2.  earn one's daily bread to earn one's living
3.  the daily round the usual activities of one's day
 
n , -lies
4.  a daily publication, esp a newspaper
5.  (Brit) another name for a charwoman Also called: daily help
 
adv
6.  every day
7.  constantly; often
 
[Old English dæglīc; see day, -ly1]

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daily
O.E. dæglic (see day). This form is known from compounds, twadæglic "happening once in two days," þreodæglic "happening once in three days;" the more usual O.E. word was dæghwamlic.
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Example sentences
But perhaps the biggest draw for many tourists is a daily three-minute spectacle known as the running of the bulls.
For the first time, toxic screening is underway for thousands of chemicals in daily use.
Individual blossoms do not last long, but for weeks new ones open daily.
Daily wind and weather patterns also guide how far a plume goes and how long it stays aloft.
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