Day

Day

A day is a unit of time. In common usage, it is an interval equal to 24 hours. It also can mean the consecutive period of time during which the Sun is above the horizon of a location, also known as daytime. The period of time measured from local noon to the following local noon is called a solar day.

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Famous quotes containing the word day:

    “It was a day of cold
    Raw silence, wind-blown
    Surplice and soutane:
    Rained-on, flower-laden
    Coffin after coffin
    Seemed to float from the door”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    “The world’s great day is growing late,
    Yet strange these fields that we have planted
    So long with crops of love and hate.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
    Sermons and soda-water the day after.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)