English Phrase of the Day

Definitions

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every day
1. adv. As frequently as every day; daily.
Analysis
every		©
1. det. All of a group (considered individually), without exception.
Every person in the room stood and cheered.
2. det. Used with ordinal numbers to denote those items whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a portion of equal size to that set.
Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue.  The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc.
Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit.
day		©
1. n. Any period of 24 hours.
I've been here for two days and a bit.
2. n. A period from midnight to the following midnight.
The day begins at midnight.
3. n. (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).

Example Sentences

I have to do it every day or else.  She said he came to her every day, and had softened here heart and had given her many good things.  Each and every day, little by little, we are winning!  Every day I got heavier into it.  It was so degrading for him to have to go back to that place every day wasting away.

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