dai·ly

(dā′lē)

adj.

1. Of or occurring during the day.

2. Happening or done every day: the physician's daily rounds.

3. Computed or assessed for each day: a daily record.

4. Everyday: casual clothes only for daily use.

adv.

1. Every day: Exercise daily.

2. Once a day: Wind the clock daily.

n. pl. dai·lies

1. A newspaper published every day or every weekday.

2. dailies The first, unedited print of movie film usually viewed after a day's shooting; the rushes.

[Middle English dayly, from Old English dæglīc, from dæg, day; see day.]

dai′li·ness, dai′ly·ness n.

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dailies

(ˈdeɪlɪz)

pl n

(Film) films another word for rushes

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Our own dailies infuriate the reader, pretty often; the German daily only stupefies him.

Some of the dailies move too fast, others too slowly.

Some of the less important dailies give one a tablespoonful of a continued story every day; it is strung across the bottom of the page, in the French fashion.

The dailies actually printed in Munich are all called second-class by the public.

That would be nearly a column of one of our dailies. A single issue of the bulkiest daily newspaper in the world--the London TIMES--often contains 100,000 words of reading-matter.

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Similarly, from Sindh (excluding Karachi) Dailies, Daily Kaleem, Sukkur and Daily Kawish, Hyderabad were elected and from Punjab (excluding Lahore/Rwp/Ibd.), Daily Aftab Multan, Daily Business Report Faisalabad and Daily Paigham, Faisalabad.

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