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everyday

[adj. ev-ree-dey; n. ev-ree-dey]

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adjective

of or pertaining to every day; daily: an everyday occurrence.

of or for ordinary days, as contrasted with Sundays, holidays, or special occasions: everyday clothes.

such as is met with every day; ordinary; commonplace: a placid, everyday scene.

noun

the routine or ordinary day or occasion: We use inexpensive plates for everyday.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English everydayes. See every, day

Related forms

eve·ry·day·ness, noun

Synonyms
2, 3. workday, common, usual.

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For them it was a way of being present to the wonders of the everyday.

Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life.

Many everyday activities wash pollutants into our waters.

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For them it was a way of being present to the wonders of the everyday.

Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life.

Many everyday activities wash pollutants into our waters.

These are everyday words with meanings of largeness.

Behavioral residue is the residue of our actions, and our actions are the meat of everyday personality.

Pound and brown the everyday bird into a versatile weeknight option.

It's always fun when everyday life tosses up an easily identifiable piece of evolutionary biology.

Students must come to see math as an essential aspect of their everyday lives, no matter what their field of study.

So many beautiful companies go bust with so many good memoirs, experiences and people everyday.

In fact, lots of baseball terms have become part of everyday speech.

Self-serving impulses and moral considerations often act as two opposing forces that govern our everyday behavior.

Adams describes his work, which is made from everyday objects, as a call to the viewer to get personally involved with art.

They use many ingredients and seasonings that are rarely found in everyday markets.

All this was supposed to let everyday users manage their everyday activities.

Oh and washing with plain everyday soap and water is fine.

Monitoring systems are also appearing in more everyday settings, for example in ice-dispensing machines in supermarkets.

Have students list the ways they depend upon energy in their everyday lives.

Few everyday items interact with magnetic fields, so it's unlikely for something to unintentionally drain power from the coils.

She suggests getting smaller dinnerware or switching to salad plates for everyday use.

Enjoy these historic photos of a time when recorded and amplified audio were a novelty, rather than a necessity of everyday life.

These people are shamed, guilted or simply expected to take care of people who don't have the abilities to handle everyday issues.

It should be a priority to put such everyday things on a better footing.

Disinfectants made from everyday kitchen ingredients provide nontoxic and inexpensive alternatives to harsh chemical products.

For survival one doesn't need to go beyond the everyday physical environment although it usually helps, no doubts.

Natural photos are those that involve everyday situations that may demonstrate a variety of physics concepts.

We gave these everyday staples a makeover by adding heart-friendly ingredients with big flavors and great texture.

Most of them involved the everyday life and work of women: clothing, household implements, fireplaces and cook stoves.

Figure out ways to embed leadership, social, and global skills in everyday curricula.

These cities have knitted together networks for everyday travel by bike.

Everyday materials may pose health and environmental threats.

It's not everyday that insect folks provide commentary on art.

Placing the conversation area as far from the house as possible makes it feel worlds away from everyday concerns.

There's a clear concern that everyday physicians may see cases of this and not know what they are seeing.

The primary focus of my linguistic research always has been the language of everyday conversation.

They pay attention to the heightened ritual of everyday things.

Programmers continue to plug humorous gems into everyday software.

The donated trophies will be altered so that the figures perform everyday tasks.

Sadly, everyday there are lots of dead bees on the patio, some with the yellow stuff on their legs.

More insidious is the intrusion of sophisticated surveillance technology into everyday life.

It's a little word responsible for simple, everyday tasks.

Once a world of fantasy, the genre evolved to capture the terror of the everyday.

Home ec teaches how to apply basic math and reading to everyday life.

Art becomes comfortably everyday when you incorporate it into a high-traffic-area tableau.

Building tools and construction materials to turn doers' and makers' ideas into everyday innovation.

Plus, as the researchers admit, writing captions for cartoons isn't everyday behavior.

Alaska plays havoc with your senses and turns everyday logic on its head.

Impressive what an artist sense can do with such everyday materials.

With no real cushion on the bag's backside, the bubbly foam padding is intended to offer support from everyday shunts and bumps.

It seemed an ethical imperative to confront the transformation of everyday life.

His deadpan evocation of flat, bright figures had an everyday quality that linked them to commercial art and popular culture.

And, in fact, it has made reading and writing even more essential parts of everyday life.

Reaching the breaking point is not about gay and lesbian students being less able to deal with the stresses of everyday life.

The whole thing is a model of unobtrusive artistry amid the everyday nondescript.

Imagine a world hidden in the midst of our own, one in which you notice clues and symbols that elude you in your everyday life.

When markets are rising and everyday conversations are abuzz with brokerage triumphs, reward seems but a low-hanging fruit.

Teamwork is an everyday occurrence, and is made easy with our new open workspaces.

He has created concept ideas for everyday products that push the limits of what they can do.

Guidelines for everyday tipping at hotels, restaurants, salons and elsewhere.

Designed for carrying everyday personal gear plus a digital point-and-shoot camera and more.

Exposure to the chemicals in everyday objects poses a hidden health threat.

The masterful modernist manipulated light, form and focus to create color-strewn scenes of everyday life.

Just everyday observations, filtered through the lens of.

As computers become integrated into everyday products, designers must consider not.

The chances are that much of business and everyday computing will one day be mediated by this ethereal cloud.

Jordan wrote and directed, works best when it stays within the blurry in-between space separating the everyday world from that.

In my line of work jeans and a t-shirt/sweatshirt/sweater were everyday wear.

But chronic hunger is part of everyday life for many people in poorer places.

In this photo matching game, meet some animals that have helped scientists discover ways to solve everyday problems.

Scriptwriters have internalized the unconscious social habits of everyday conversation.

He made his name painting cakes, gumboil machines and other everyday subjects.

But they're also ridiculously extravagant for everyday.

Joe is the owner and he's there everyday of the week.

Once again he eschews chalkboard economics in favour of a reader-friendly guide to the economics of everyday life.

Read more about the how scientists copy animals and plants to find ways to solve everyday problems.

For sheer sensory enjoyment, few everyday experiences can compete with a good cup of coffee.

At some point in the future, many more everyday objects will have tiny embedded chips that can communicate with networks.

She taught me life was not easy but neglected to teach me about the magnificence of the everyday.

In coming years wireless will vanish entirely from view, as communications chips are embedded in a host of everyday objects.

But manufacturers usually tout their antibacterial soaps and lotions as suitable for everyday use.

It takes a certain kind of brain to see security flaws in everyday consumer conveniences and corporate shortcuts.

Many of the allusions and examples in everyday speech and argument come from literature.

But another everyday observation is that powerful people who have been caught out often show little sign of contrition.

Special features include celebrity interviews, a degree-by-degree impact guide and everyday green living tips.

People lose their capacity to perform simple, everyday tasks and show impairments in intellectual abilities such as planning.

The information revolution may turn everyday people into ocean conservationists.

Get out there and capture the faces behind the rat race and iconic, everyday make-or-break moments.

Such self-healing composites may take a while to enter everyday use.

Walking on water may seem miraculous, but for tiny aquatic snails, it's an everyday activity.

The experiment shows that the principles of quantum mechanics can apply to everyday objects as well as as atomic-scale particles.

Have these things as part of your being, part of your everyday navigation of the world.

Most kids lack an understanding of science and an awareness of how it influences our everyday lives.

Real everyday life underwater is about survival and mating.

And it was a time when space technology was starting to transform everyday life.

Both artists capture long disappeared lives and events and everyday strangeness that are too often misrepresented or unexplored.

In some islands, a climate of fear curtails everyday routines.

Growing not from politicians, but from everyday people, it swept away legal slavery.

Our everyday language is full of expressions that refer to where people around us are looking.

All sorts of everyday household objects are made from polyethylene.

Clearly the experience of everyday incivility was common and strangely.

Better everyday policing should have accompanied the elite anti-drug spearhead.

Madagascar's rare and haunting beauty coexists with a desperation among its people that defines everyday life.

Monorails could enter and leave buildings well above street level and greatly improve access both for everyday use and emergency.

It is much better than the standard everyday bald cypress.

The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve.

Librarians' training and everyday experience is to expect nothing of anyone who walks up to the desk.

Th e story also provides readers with an opportunity to link what they read to current events and their everyday experiences.

Everyday citizens crowded lecture halls and devoted themselves to the sciences.

One way is to lower the prices you pay on everyday purchases, ideally without sacrifice of quality.

After all, everyday low prices have been good for consumers.

They were often demoralized, but they came into work everyday with a recognition that there were some things that they could do.

The inventor will miniaturize the security of a bank vault into the everyday padlock.

Marginal-cost thinking shows up not only in large public contexts but also in everyday shopping experiences.

For years, technology companies and small software developers have created digital tools to aid the blind in everyday life.

So let's agree that not-terribly-astute queries are part of everyday life.

His fantasy is ever reaching, ranging from the struggle of the everyday soul caught in a less than ordinary underworld to the.

Translate your laboratory skills and research interests into everyday language when possible.

Part of the attraction is the gritty range of media, including everyday hardboard and the ubiquitous spray paint.

I've been thinking about leaving everyday for over three years, now.

Turn everyday items around your house into something heartfelt.

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World English Dictionary

everyday (ˈɛvrɪˌdeɪ)

—*adj*
1.	happening each day; daily
2.	commonplace or usual; ordinary
3.	suitable for or used on ordinary days as distinct from Sundays or special days

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Word Origin & History

everyday

1630s, "worn on ordinary days," as opposed to Sundays or high days, from every + day; extended sense of "to be met with every day, common" is from 1763.

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