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daily (adj ) Old English dæglic (see day) This form is known from compounds: twadæglic “happening once in two days,” þreodæglic “happening once in three days;” the more usual Old English word was dæghwamlic, also dægehwelc Cognate with German täglich
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The daily mean discharge for any day is defined as the mean discharge for that one day; the mean daily discharge for any one day, October 10, for instance, is the arithmetic mean of the discharge on all October 10's of record, or during a specific period of years
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While writing programs, I need to create a drop down for setting periods, like daily, weekly, monthly, etc Using one year as a time frame This question is driven by lack of a better word I've ha
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I have this list of choices: Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, once The last one "once" is used to indicate thing that occurs only one time I wanted to keep up with pattern of the first four wo
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The second one is correct In The quest opens up doors the verb opens up agrees in person and number with the subject quest The sentence doesn't require are if both the prepositional phrase of finding methods of expression and the restrictive relative clause that is authentic to oneself refer to the noun quest The meaning of the sentence is that that quest which consists of finding methods
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Strangely, although bicentennial, bilingual, and bipedal (among many other actual and imagined bi-prefixed words) would never be understood as referring to half- century, language, foot, etc phenomena, biannual (or biennial) or bimonthly or biweekly (and probably bi-daily, if anyone ever tried it out on people) do elicit that interpretation
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What exactly is the meaning of the phrase “The morning constitutional”? Is it an early morning walk or the first visit to the bathroom during the day? What is the origin of this phrase? What is th
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What is the collective term for "Daily", "Weekly", "Monthly" and "Yearly"? Ask Question Asked 9 years, 2 months ago Modified 7 years, 11 months ago
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