What's the difference between daily and dally?

Daily


Definition:

  • (a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.
  • (n.) A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.
  • (adv.) Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
  • (3) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
  • (4) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
  • (5) Most patients of the bopindolol-group needed 1 mg once daily as compared to those on the nifedipine who required 20 mg b.i.d.
  • (6) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.
  • (7) This condition may be caused by the prolonged, repetitive elevations of gonadal steroids and other hormones known to suppress gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion that are elicited by their daily exercise.
  • (8) Buserelin and Flutamide were administered three times daily, intranasally and orally respectively, at a dose of 1.2 mg and 750 mg for twelve months.
  • (9) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
  • (10) 1 Rats were convulsed once daily for 7 days by exposure to the inhalant convulsant agent, flurothyl (Indoklon, bis (2,2,2-trifluouroethyl)ether).
  • (11) Seventy-six patients with established atherosclerotic disease were treated daily with either 250 micrograms of chromium orally as chromium chloride or a placebo for a period of 7 to 16 months (mean, 11.1 months).
  • (12) Assessments were made daily by patients, using visual analogue scales, of their pain levels at rest, at night and on activity, and of the limitation of their activity.
  • (13) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
  • (14) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
  • (15) Estimated fluid consumption dropped from 10 liters to 4 liters daily and incidents of hyponatremia decreased by 62%.
  • (16) Basal plasma levels of oxytocin were found to be low in sodium-deficient adrenalectomized rats and in intact animals treated daily with desoxycorticosterone acetate, both of which groups drank large amounts of NaCl solution, whereas basal plasma levels of arginine vasopressin were neither stimulated nor suppressed.
  • (17) Typical kinetics of local anaesthetics are presented for various methods of regional anaesthesia informing the anaesthetist on corresponding plasma concentrations if the recommended maximum doses are exceeded and thus he gets useful information for his daily work.
  • (18) Five daily injections of TGF beta-1 or -2 were administered subcutaneously over the frontal and parietal bones of seven-week-old mice.
  • (19) We conclude that once daily doxazosin provides smooth and effective blood pressure control throughout a 24 h post-dose period.
  • (20) We conclude that Fraxiparine is relatively well tolerated and shows accumulation after daily dosing with greater than 15000 U AXa IC.

Dally


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
  • (v. i.) To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
  • (v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Residents of Cardiff , Cumbria and Plymouth are either dallying with the idea or actively pursuing it.
  • (2) Of 257 named characters, only a handful dare shoot up an ironic eyebrow, fewer dally in high camp.
  • (3) Indirect hemagglutination tests on sera from 251 Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) from interior Alaska collected during the period 1979 to 1987 revealed no evidence of exposure to Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae.
  • (4) Yes, she dallied with cocaine but she wouldn’t again.
  • (5) Now, however, all four Burgess boys are big news Down Under, where they have teamed up at the South Sydney Rabbitohs, and George became the first Briton ever to be named Rookie of the Year at the National Rugby League's Dally M awards night, only a few hours after McNamara had confirmed that he, Sam and Tom will be flying to South Africa this week to join England's high-altitude World Cup training camp in Potchefstroom.
  • (6) Only once did this concern the visiting defence – when Zabaleta dallied in the area but a cool touch allowed him and Kompany to clear the danger.
  • (7) Inevitably, it has provoked distrust in the rest of the continent: in which the chancellor's costly dilly-dallying during the debt crisis, led to remarks about a third world war in the British press.
  • (8) Both sides were exhibiting a wastefulness in the final third as Mark Davies dragged wide after a promising foray and Roger Espinoza dallied when bearing down on goal.
  • (9) In a typically water animal (Phocaenoides dalli) the cervical thickening is expressed feebly, the lumbar one is absent, the epidural space is developed better than in terrestrial and semiwater animals.
  • (10) Rats were given dally injections of nicotine in the same environment.
  • (11) Dalli, in a videoed interview with a Brussels political paper, said the investigators' report "stated there was no proof at all that I was involved in any misdeed" and that no decision of the commission had been jeopardised.
  • (12) Dodd toyed and dallied in the telling, knowing his audience couldn't know where the joke was going and then warning them, just before the punchline: "You don't deserve this."
  • (13) He picks out Liam Lawrence, who dilly-dallies then passes when he probably should have had a shot from distance.
  • (14) The commissioner John Dalli has revealed that he was forced to resign by the European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, following an investigation by the EU anti-fraud office Olaf into a complaint by a Swedish tobacco company.
  • (15) He wouldn't necessarily have chosen that path, but Glamorgan have dilly-dallied over the negotiations.
  • (16) I became negative and didn’t feel like myself.” It is no secret that the Dutchman, like Congerton, had become dismayed by Short’s reluctance to follow his advice and invest significant sums in root and branch reform of a squad which has spent the past few seasons dallying with relegation.
  • (17) For weeks now, Hollande has led the European response to the Syrian crisis, pursuing a hawkish approach to Damascus in stark contrast to the dilly-dallying of France's continental allies and neighbours.
  • (18) We noted frequency of body-image disturbance (BID) and dismorphophobias (DPP) in 97 girls and 8 boys among 107 girls and 8 boys with Anorexia Nervosa (AN), seen since 1973 and coming up semiologic criterions of Laboucarie and Dally & Sargant.
  • (19) He turned to psychoanalysis, David Astor's favoured remedy, and ended up with a psychiatrist, probably the late Peter Dally, who first injected him with methadrine and then – this was the 60s – offered LSD, which was still legal.
  • (20) The prevalences of three helminths, Campula oblonga, Halocercus dalli and Crassicauda sp., recovered from Dall's porpoises which were net-entrapped incidentally in the vicinity of the Western Aleutian Islands in the northwest Pacific are reported.

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