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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. etymology. adjectives.
"Hourly," "daily," "monthly," "weekly," and "yearly" suggest a consistent approach to creating adverbial forms of time measurements, but the form breaks down both in smaller time units ("secondly," "minutely"—perhaps because of the danger of confusion with other meanings of those words) and in larger ones ("decadely," "centurily," "millenniumly"—perhaps because until recently events ...
Twice-daily is probably the best choice since it is unambiguous and commonly used. Using either bidaily or bi-daily risks the reader getting muddled between "twice a day" and "every other day". Neither the Oxford or Cambridge online dictionaries list bidaily or bi-daily, possibly for the reason given above. Collins lists bi-daily as a "new word ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fifth edition (2010) offers this reconciliation of the "every 48 hours" meaning and the "every third day" meaning of tertian: "Recurring every other day or, when considered inclusively, every third day: a tertian fever." That is, the fever recurs on the third day, counting the initial ...
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Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey, Fifth Edition, 1958, page 44, says, "The terms "daily mean" and "mean daily" should not be used indiscriminately, nor should "monthly mean" and "mean monthly," "annual mean" and "mean annual," etc. The daily mean discharge for any day is defined as the mean discharge ...
I have understood it to be Cockney Rhyming Slang. Constitutional-> Constitutional Right -> Word that rhymes with "right" which means poop. To such an extent, if someone said they were going for their"daily constitutional" and went a walk in the woods, I'd assume that they had a preference to poop in the woods. –
Thanks jwpat7, the fact is I'd vote up your answer. One word appearing in two different questions don't make it duplicates. While one question could be about what does bi- stand for, my question is what better one word is there for 6 months like daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly. My guess it there might be one that I don't know of.
31. routine: noun 1. a customary or regular course of procedure. 2. commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity: the routine of an office. 3. regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure.