Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By day; in the daytime.
- Daily; every day.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Daily; every day.
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- adverb
daily - adverb By daylight.
- adverb Every daytime.
Etymologies
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Examples
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More specifically we looked at gene expression diurnally in leaves and tubers, during tuber induction and in tubers growing at different velocities.
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Be suspicious of anything that varies seasonally or diurnally.
ICR throws in towel -- then reaches for another - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Be suspicious of anything that varies seasonally or diurnally.
ICR throws in towel -- then reaches for another - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Temperatures can vary more diurnally than seasonally.
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Fishes can feed either diurnally (during the day) or nocturnally (at night).
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What the word was, Mr. Pickwick could not distinguish; but he rather inferred that it must be some nickname which distinguished Mr. Martin, from the fact of a great number of gentlemen on the ground below, immediately proceeding to cry ‘Butcher!’ in imitation of the tone in which that useful class of society are wont, diurnally, to make their presence known at area railings.
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CO32-aq is the critical variable, and due to the essential stability of ocean waters, it does not vary nearly as much when pCO2 is varying diurnally.
Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit 2006
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(These folks are trying to function both nocturnally and diurnally this time of year, hence the tired, squirrely look to their eyes.), and have already confirmed over 60 ferrets running around out there in the wild.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004
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It wasn't the first time they had encountered a plant that boasted two distinctly different types of flower, one blooming diurnally and its counterpart nocturnally.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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In general, the level of dissolved oxygen in the surface water varies diurnally with algal photosynthesis during the day.
Chapter 6 1995
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