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:

    “I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Old Day the gardener seemed
    Death himself, or Time, scythe in hand
    by the sundial and freshly-dug
    grave in my book of parables.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.”
    —Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)