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:
“Oh, many a day have I made good ale in the glen,
That came not of stream, or malt, like the brewing of men;
My bed was the ground, my roof the greenwood above,
And the wealth that I sought, one far kind glance from my love.”
—Unknown. The Outlaw of Loch Lene (l. 1–4)
“The day after he’d met her, he told me about her. He said she was a cross-section of the American public.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)