资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n.
{Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but
beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four
hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day,
as that most used by astronomers.
{Born days}. See under {Born}.
{Canicular days}. See {Dog day}.
{Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary
reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning
at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two
series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized
by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and
Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews
at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight.
{Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}.
{Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day;
continually; without intermission of a day. See under
{By}. ``Day by day we magnify thee.'' --Book of Common
Prayer.
{Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return
of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called
because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench,
or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill.
{Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a
suit.
{Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which
devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley.
{Days of grace}. See {Grace}.
{Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is
obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley.
{Day owl}, (Zo["o]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk
owl}.
{Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished)
allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go
beyond the prison limits for a single day.
{Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in
distinction from a boarding school.
{Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}.
{Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's
course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon.
{From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as,
he improves from day to day.
{Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset.
{Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the
apparent solar days of the year.
{One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually
of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later.
``Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a
husband.'' --Shak.
{Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance;
temporarily. --Bacon.
{Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits
of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The
Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time.
{To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S.
Butler.
{Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day.
{Working day}.
(a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction
from Sundays and legal holidays.
(b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom,
during which a workman, hired at a stated price per
day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay.
资料来源 : WordNet®
mean solar day
n : time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two
days later they left"; "they put on two performances
every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" [syn: {day},
{twenty-four hours}, {solar day}]