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单词 dayside
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daysiden.adj.

Brit. /ˈdeɪsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈdeɪˌsaɪd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: day n., side n.1
Etymology: < day n. + side n.1 With sense A. 1 compare German Tagseite (late 18th cent. or earlier in this sense).
A. n.
1. The side of a planet that is facing the sun and is therefore in daylight, esp. in phrase on the dayside. Cf. nightside n. 1.
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the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > part of planet
terminator1661
belt1665
fascia1704
fibre1715
white spot1784
dayside1827
nightside1848
albedo1860
north pole1861
polar cap1863
core1882
regolith1897
tectonics1899
sediment ring1955
radiation belt1958
palaeo-radius1960
space needle1961
soil1967
society > communication > journalism > working practices and conditions > [noun] > division of newspaper's day staff
dayside1827
1827 Mechanics' Mag. 1 Sept. 109/2 It follows that the resistance of fluid in the direction BC on the right side of the planet, is greater than on the day side BI next the sun.
1863 A. H. Dick Compend. Math. Geogr. xii. 186 The upper hemisphere shows the day side of the earth at mid-day of the given place.
1914 J. R. Kippax Call of Stars 334 The day side of the Moon is exposed to the Sun's intense heat for a fortnight at a stretch.
1963 Daily Tel. 20 May 26/4 He could see the larger stars on the ‘dayside’ of the Earth if he kept both sunshine and earthshine out of his capsule window.
2005 R. J. Sawyer Mindscan xiii. 89 I watched as the nightside part of Earth—lenticular in this perspective, like a cat's black pupil abutting the blue crescent of the dayside—kissed the gray lunar horizon.
2. North American. The day shift; the employees who work during the day shift. Frequently with reference to the staff of a newspaper. Cf. nightside n. 3.
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society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > spell of work or duty > other types of shift
day shift1842
dayside1899
graveyard shift1907
multiple shift1921
twilight shift1970
late1975
1899 Typographical Jrnl. 1 Mar. 209/2 William Macdirmaid is superintendent of the World-Herald, W. C. Boyer being foreman on the day side, and William Scott on the night side.
1927 Amer. Speech 2 242/2 On papers having both morning and afternoon editions one also hears references to the two divisions of the staff as the ‘day side’ and the ‘night side’.
1968 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 12 Nov. 14/2 Engine assemblers and testers walked off the job because the company added 16 extra men to the night shift to speed up production, which was lagging behind the dayside.
1980 Washington Post 20 Jan. (Mag. section) 8/3 At 11:30 he dropped it into the city desk basket and went home, thinking that the dayside would get a kick out of it.
1997 Vancouver Sun 5 Nov. g2 The early arrivals on the Post-press staff are examining the computer printouts from dayside.
B. adj.
1. North American. Of or relating to the day shift; that works or is performed during the day.
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society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [adjective] > belonging to working day
workday1516
workaday1554
dayside1918
society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [adjective] > performed by day
dayside1918
1918 Amer. Printer 5 Aug. 52/1 Watson B. Laughton is now in charge of the ‘dayside’ cylinder pressrooms... William Clark has charge of the night force.
1936 Nevada State Jrnl. 17 Oct. 10/4 Short was the dayside bar-tender at the Ship.
1979 Washington Post 8 Jan. d11/1 Postal clerks who sort mail for Zone 11 on the midnight shift..missed the big dayside collection.
2004 Hartford (Connecticut) Mag. July 50/2 Cheng puts together stories for the early-evening news shows..in much less time than a ‘dayside’ reporter.
2. Of or relating to the side of a planet that is in daylight.
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the world > the universe > planet > [adjective] > part
regolithic1897
dayside1935
tectonical1939
1935 Astounding Stories Feb. 69 While the night-side life of Venus can eat and digest that of the day side, the reverse is not true. No day-side creature can absorb the dark life because of the presence of various metabolic alcohols, all poisonous.
1981 Sci. Amer. July 46/3 The large-scale rotation of the atmosphere with the planet [sc. earth] carries the heated day-side upper atmosphere to the night side of the planet.
2011 M. Carroll Drifting on Alien Winds ix. 174 In the upper atmosphere [of Uranus], the north pole—hidden in darkness—was actually warmer than the day-side pole.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1827
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