What's the difference between day and daybreak?

Day


Definition:

  • (n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
  • (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.
  • (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.
  • (n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
  • (n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
  • (2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
  • (3) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
  • (4) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
  • (5) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (6) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (7) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
  • (8) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (9) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
  • (10) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (11) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (13) Spontaneous locomotor activity was lower in naloxone-infused rats on day 3 only.
  • (14) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
  • (15) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
  • (16) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (17) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
  • (18) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (19) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
  • (20) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.

Daybreak


Definition:

  • (n.) The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kate Garraway and Dan Lobb, currently part of the Daybreak team, could also see their roles boosted in the Daybreak reshuffle.
  • (2) It also emerged that the 48-hour strike had little impact on viewers: ITV's struggling Daybreak, fronted by Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles, only managed 800,000 viewers compared with BBC Breakfast's 1.3 million.
  • (3) Cameron told ITV1's Daybreak: "I wanted to do this during the Olympic Games.
  • (4) The health secretary told ITV1's Daybreak: "A lot of people are very worried about it.
  • (5) Brian Maddison from the group told ITV's Daybreak that one garage in Kent reported already selling out of fuel canisters: "That's the sort of bizarre behaviour that Francis Maude and the rest of the cabinet seem to have encouraged.
  • (6) So I think Scots should be very worried that the SNP are putting so much emphasis on oil and gas," he told ITV's Daybreak.
  • (7) Daybreak has not performed as we would have hoped."
  • (8) Discovery Park is also home to the Daybreak Star Cultural Center , a hub for Native American cultural gatherings in the Pacific Northwest.
  • (9) Kate Garraway and Dan Lobb, currently part of the Daybreak team, could also see their roles boosted in the Daybreak job shuffle.
  • (10) Speaking on ITV's Daybreak, Clegg accused the Tories of being pressurised into "flip-flopping" by Ukip's surge in popularity , which has seen it finish above the Conservatives in the recent Eastleigh and South Shields byelections.
  • (11) I. Gene complementation test became possible among families of a hereditary disease by this technique which was the daybreak of the genetic analyses of human hereditary diseases in laboratories.
  • (12) He told ITV's Daybreak on Monday: "I want my children, who are in primary school at the moment, to have the sort of curriculum that children in other countries have, which are doing better than our own.
  • (13) Earlier this week Holmes expressed his interest in the Daybreak role .
  • (14) Speaking to ITV's Daybreak, the assistant general secretary of Unite, Diana Holland, said: "Everybody involved on behalf of Unite, the trade union members, and the oil tanker drivers, is saying we want a negotiated settlement.
  • (15) Last year 89.5% of children referred to Daybreak FGC by social services found a safe home within their extended family.
  • (16) ITV executives will be pleased with the start, viewing is up about 200,000 on Daybreak before it was axed, but GMB still has some way to go to close the gap with arch-rival BBC.
  • (17) ITV had high hopes for Daybreak when it launched in a blaze of publicity following the high-profile defections of Chiles and Bleakley from the BBC.
  • (18) Sky News presenter Eamonn Holmes has admitted he would "like to be in the frame" for a presenting job on Daybreak , although ITV newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky has distanced herself from taking over as a co-host of the ITV1 breakfast show.
  • (19) Sir John may have hair that is more silvery than ever, and his sky-blue tie shines like the sun on a tropical sea at daybreak, but he still brings a powerful whiff of the past.
  • (20) In December, it unveiled news presenters Marc Edwards, a presenter on France 24 and EuroSport who also voiced Danny Boyle's London 2012 opening ceremony; Louise Scodie, a broadcaster and writer with credits including Marie Claire, the Jewish Chronicle and shopping channel bid-up.tv; Claudia Liza Armah, who has presented BBC3's 60 Seconds news update and BBC News Interactive; and Gavin Ramjaun, who has worked on ITV's This Morning and Daybreak as well as CBBC Newsround and BBC Sport.

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