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:

    “The first day on the new world had begun.”
    —Sydney Boehm (1908–1990)

    “To think to know the country and not know
    The hillside on the day the sun lets go
    Ten million silver lizards out of snow!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “All day long the machine waits: rooms,
    stairs, carpets, furniture, people
    those people who stand at the open windows like objects
    waiting to topple.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)