What's the difference between workaday and workday?

Workaday


Definition:

  • (n.) See Workyday.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Without electricity, the batteries on my toothbrush, phone and laptop gradually ran down, and I let the slow rhythm of the sun reorganise my workaday brain.
  • (2) In February 1978, he lost the title to the workaday Leon Spinks and regained it once again that September – but tiredly, for now the feet were flat, the reflexes dull, the senses dimmed.
  • (3) FITP emphasizes one Focal Problem, provides criteria for defining it, makes it possible to formulate the problem in operational language, channels free-ranging case discussion into workaday terms, invites the clinician to make explicit a sophisticated view of pathogenesis; including developmental, dynamic, and contextual factors, and ties formulation to intervention through explicit objectives.
  • (4) Perhaps mine was the last generation to be brought up with the fully inflated version of this idea – that the Clyde's tradition and skills made its ships singularly good – but it was powerful while it lasted and still held sway in 1961, when the documentary Seawards the Great Ships won an unexpected Oscar and thrilled us at the cinema with its heroic depiction of Glasgow's workaday river.
  • (5) An old bar, Le Comptoir Dugommier is a workaday and yet cosmopolitan bistro.
  • (6) This diminishes the role of politics in local government and local democracy, in effect turning campaigners and activists into workaday managers.
  • (7) Nonetheless, observe the workaday clothing, the B-list attendees, and the untropical surroundings of traffic-choked Park Lane.
  • (8) Johnson elaborated (in the workaday prose of his character): "Prince came on and he's really nice and he told us he was a fan of the show.
  • (9) In some special cases we found subjects well adapted to the workaday world who could live with briefer sleeping periods.
  • (10) There are also the duller, more workaday parts of Venice, in which one is introduced to the disquieting idea that the entire city is an occult conspiracy, leading inexorably to death.
  • (11) A t the workaday offices of bet365, the online gambling company that has made his second fortune, Stoke City's owner, Peter Coates, is reflecting on his club's landmark run to their first FA Cup final, and his own remarkable life.
  • (12) Visionaries are rare in this workaday world, so we should all be grateful for Saif al-Islam Gadafy, architect, philanthropist, and Libya's leading artist, at least according to the exhibition The Desert Is Not Silent, organised by his own foundation, that opens today in Kensington Gardens.
  • (13) Candidate Clinton feels different, political analysts and media observers say, from the workaday secretary of state who filled that office from 2009 to 2013 or from the more timidly progressive candidate voters got to know in 2008 – one whose presumptuous designs on the general election left her vulnerable on the left in the primary.
  • (14) There is also a 14th-century castle owned by Jools Holland and a workaday marina, about as far from Cowes in its social atmosphere as it's possible to get.
  • (15) Cubs fan Joe Wiegand, 51, from Maniton, Colorado, mused: “Baseball is a wonderful distraction from the workaday world and the issues at hand.
  • (16) There's a grisly murder, the workaday investigators are stumped, then maverick DCI John Luther comes along and solves it with his finely honed instincts.
  • (17) They hide their food issues like a dirty secret, are ashamed of them, or simply regard them as a part of the workaday diet chat so common in offices up and down the country.
  • (18) set its story in the year 1947, pitting workaday Los Angeles private detective Eddie Valiant against the villain Judge Doom, a cadaverous, black-clad personification of all these backroom-dealing companies.
  • (19) That must be the reason why Donnelly had nothing to say about such workaday themes as the civil service reform plan or relations between departments and arm's length bodies.
  • (20) The coalition published its detailed programme , and offered a stab at a Con-Lib mission statement – "a Big Society matched by big citizens" – which unwittingly underlined what a workaday document this was.

Workday


Definition:

  • (n. & a.) A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, on Monday, during his first workday in office, he reinstated the global gag order, an executive order that bans international not-for-profit organizations from providing abortion services or offering information about abortions if they receive US funding.
  • (2) The amine concentrations and the excretion rates increased considerably during the workday.
  • (3) Determination of work capability may require assessment of function at speeds consistent with the patient's workday requirements.
  • (4) Observations on five workdays at a large terminus for a number of commuter rail lines indicated that among 4731 passengers 5% of 2794 men and 31% of 1937 women wore white sport shoes.
  • (5) When change of provider occurred, days lost from work and cost of care varied widely across the care options, but generally, fewer workdays were lost and lower amounts of disability compensation and provider cost paid when chiropractic was included in the care pattern.
  • (6) Passive smokers experienced greater CO levels during the workday.
  • (7) To study whether fluorescent lighting at work might increase carcinogenesis, hairless mice were exposed to a bank of six 36 W standard fluorescent lamps (neutral-white) every workday for 8 h at an illuminance level of 1,000 lx.
  • (8) Metabolite formation was compared following exposure to benzene over the course of an 8-hr workday and following a single exposure for 15 min.
  • (9) All workers were examined immediately before and after each workday.
  • (10) I’m not forcing them to pull their phone out.” In front of Times Square’s iconic billboards, Eric, a thirtysomething Pennsylvanian web developer in beige chinos and striped tucked-in shirt, wraps his arms around Amanda and Saira as they near the end of their workday.
  • (11) Frostbite injuries of the lower extremities occurred at milder temperatures, required more lost workdays, and were more costly than cold injuries to the head and face or to the upper extremities.
  • (12) The amount of lost workdays was calculated during periods of 2 yr pre- and posttransplantation: the figure decreased by 44% in group 1 (from 278 to 155) and was unchanged in group 2 (from 211 to 213).
  • (13) The mean heart rate of the forestry workers was 9 beats.min-1 less than that of the office workers at the initial exercise intensity of 50 W. This difference increased to 25 beats.min-1 at 175 W. For 6 of the 22 forestry workers, heart rates were recorded continuously during a usual workday.
  • (14) Six Medex working with family practitioners were followed by an observer for a total of 18 days to gain an objective profile of how Medex spent their workday.
  • (15) The occurrence of ferruginous bodies in sputa is found to increase as a logarithmic function of the length of occupational exposure to asbestos in workdays.
  • (16) I asked that they release me from the pressure manufactured by them and enacted by the prisoners they control; that they abolish slave labour at the colony by cutting the length of the workday and decreasing the quotas so that they correspond with the law.
  • (17) The plant-wide incidence rate of OSHA reportable repetitive trauma disorders was 2.2 cases per 200,000 workhours and resulted in 1,001 lost workdays.
  • (18) Occupational xylene exposure in the breathing zone of 15 painters was measured during three consecutive workdays.
  • (19) The hope is that these policy makers (national, state, local and company) help re-envision their workdays and work structures to help women better on and off ramp.
  • (20) At all ages, less than 1% of both men and women performed workday activities requiring high energy output.

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