everydayev‧ery‧day /ˈevrideɪ/ ●●○ adjective [only before noun] 
the problems of everyday life wearing everyday clothes a simple, everyday object Describe it in ordinary everyday language. ► Do not confuse with every day (=each day): I see him every day.► see thesaurus at normal
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Arthritis made it difficult for him to do everyday things like take out the garbage or mow the lawn.
- Noland makes sculptures out of everyday objects.
- The book is written in simple everyday language.
- The first week of the course is spent teaching students English phrases needed for everyday life.
- Detachment from the everyday gives us a higher view of our lives.
- One focuses on the everyday lives of the First Peoples.
- These should be noted, before one views the siege as baseline myth for the interpretation of everyday life.
- Under the surface of an everyday conversation a duel of two astute minds was taking place.
- We've come a long way - with everyday improvements such as ... The range of goods in the shops.
THESAURUS
usual, typical, and as you would expect it to be: · Is this cold weather normal for the time of year?· It had been another normal working day in the office.
(also regular especially American English) not special, unusual, or different from normal: · They lived in an ordinary three-bedroomed house.· It looks like an ordinary car, but it uses solar power.· Would you like a regular salad or a Caesar salad?· I just want an ordinary bicycle, not a mountain bike.
[only before noun] around the usual level or amount: · She is of average height.· He is of above average intelligence.· The average price of a pint of milk has gone up.
normal – used about methods of doing something, or about the size, shape, features etc of products: · It’s standard practice to X-ray hand-baggage at most airports.· We stock shoes in all the standard sizes.
used about things that are done regularly as part of a series of things: · The fault was discovered during a routine check of the plane.· routine tasks such as shopping and cooking
[only before noun] used about things that happen or that you use as part of normal life: · He painted scenes of everyday life in France.· Sally was still dressed in her everyday clothes.
used about birds and plants that are of the most usual type, and in the phrase the common people (=people who are not rich and powerful): · the common goldfish· an alliance between the aristocracy and the common people
[only before noun] of the kind that is usually used – used when comparing this with a different or special type: · The engine is more efficient than a conventional diesel engine.· the drugs used in conventional medicine· conventional weapons (=not nuclear, chemical, or biological)· conventional ovens and microwaves
Longman Language Activatornot special or unusual ordinary things are not special or unusual: · It's just an ordinary house in an ordinary street.· He wore an ordinary business suit with a white shirt and tie.· Can you get connected to the Internet through an ordinary telephone line?· Gillman's known for her photographs of ordinary household items.
something that is normal is just as you would expect it to be, because it is not special or different: · The new Ford looks like any normal car, but it has a special advanced engine.· January 2nd is a public holiday in Scotland, but in England it is a normal working day.· Once the pain has gone away, you can resume your normal activities.perfectly normal: · It was a perfectly normal flight until the plane suddenly started to shake.it's normal: · It may have seemed unusually cold recently but experts say it's normal for this time of year.above/below normal: · Tides will be six feet above normal this afternoon.
an average thing is a typical example of a particular type of thing: · The average bagel has 190 calories.· In an average week I watch about 20 hours of TV.
normal - use this especially about products or methods that are the most usual type, without any special features: standard model/size/shape/pattern (=not special): · We make shoes in all standard sizes.· Prices start at $15,489 for the standard model.standard practice/procedure (=the way a job is usually done): · All hand-baggage was X-rayed - this is now standard practice at most airports.· Drug tests are a standard procedure following train accidents.standard English/pronunciation/spelling (=normally accepted as correct): · Students are encouraged to learn standard English because this is what they will need to know in the business world.
use this about something that is done regularly as part of the normal system and not because of any special problem: routine check/inspection/examination etc: · The fault was discovered during a routine check of the plane.· Police found the heroin during a routine inspection of a ship.· It was on a Saturday 15 years ago that, during a routine visit to the doctor, I learned I had cancer.
a conventional method, piece of equipment, weapon etc is of the normal type that has been used for a long time - use this especially when you are comparing one thing with something else that is new or different: · A microwave cooks food much faster than a conventional oven.· The hospital provides both conventional and alternative medical treatments.conventional weapons/arms/bombs etc (=not nuclear weapons): · a new proposal to limit conventional weapons in Europe
use this about the ordinary work, activities, and problems that happen every day: · As Managing Director, I am responsible for the day-to-day management of the company.· Reeve decided to immerse himself in the day-to-day affairs of his company until business improved.
especially American ordinary but good enough for a particular purpose: · If they don't have Tylenol, just get me regular aspirin.· Even though the dye is quite strong, a regular shampoo will remove it.
mainstream books, ideas, organizations etc are not strange or extreme in any way, and are therefore popular with or suitable for most ordinary people: · After starting out as a romance novelist, she decided to try writing mainstream fiction.· Most disabled students are integrated into the mainstream educational system.· The mainstream political parties are losing support to smaller, more radical organizations.
ordinary, usual, or happening every day: · Noland makes sculptures out of everyday objects.· Arthritis made it difficult for him to do everyday things like take out the garbage or mow the lawn.· The first week of the course is spent teaching students English phrases needed for everyday life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY the problems of everyday life Describe it in ordinary everyday language.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ordinary, usual, or happening every day: the problems of everyday life Describe it in ordinary everyday language.· When you're working it can be hard to find time for the daily chores.
· Everyone else was wearing ordinary clothes.
· The death of a child was a common event in those days.
(=someone's normal life that is the same most days)· He saw drugs as a way of escaping the tedium of his everyday existence.
(=experience of normal life)· Hunger is part of everyday experience for these children.
(=one that is typical of normal life)· The sound of gunfire is an everyday experience in the city.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Look at how they compare with our normal everyday activities.· To ensure that this happens, I try to make writing an everyday activity.· They were just pleased that the movies had become a normal everyday activity.· Thus our work assumes a kind of holiness that permeates even the most ordinary of everyday activities.· She had her doubts: Perhaps it is true that women are kept humble by the nature of their everyday activities.· So in this chapter you will find some pointers for looking at what you might think are everyday activities.· A similar interest was taken by the regional and international press in the course of their everyday activities.· Information is also needed by the patient to permit the continuance of other everyday activities.
· The prosaic sight of monks going about their everyday business, just when she needed them, was irresistible.· Worse, they feel it has little relevance to everyday business decisions, where right and wrong are by no means always clear-cut.· Publishing information as part of everyday business activity and publishing for profit are only two of the three mainstream publishing activities.· Each man had his everyday business in which he could feel he had his niche and even at times his indispensability.
· Certainly there are several differences between the structure of these extended interviews and everyday conversation.· They have been around for centuries and many have become key components of everyday conversation.· Under the surface of an everyday conversation a duel of two astute minds was taking place.· Wyatt, the names she used in everyday conversation.· In everyday conversation, speakers usually ask questions in order to extend their knowledge.
· The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.· Its triumph in everyday discourse is the demand for rational or empirical justification.· The passage from esoteric scientific theory into everyday discourse describes the prototype of objectification.· Client purchasers require that this be translated back into everyday discourse.· In the first case he offered a solution in the terms of everyday discourse.· Clients bring many issues to the solicitor, expressed and constituted in terms of a variety of everyday discourses.· There are two definitional syntheses that have a particular currency, both in everyday discourse and among scholarly approaches.
· Likewise the affirmations that are created out of the everyday events can come back into it as contributions.· It is a kind of bracketing-off from everyday events.· They are doctored-up mirror images, innocuous illustrations of everyday events in which skill of execution utterly predominates over imagination.· For the successful person, a winning attitude means looking to learn something in all the everyday events that you encounter.· What was supposedly impossible, rapid large swings in currency values, became an almost everyday event.
· It affects the quality of your everyday existence.· It is a wonderful thing to spend one's everyday existence paddling in a cesspool of untapped energy.· Drug dealing, indiscriminate violence, other crime and family disorientation and disintegration are now all aspects of everyday existence.· The new breed of messed-up young things deal with the emotional extremities of everyday existence.
· Farmers, sailors, and chemists get by perfectly well on the basis of everyday experience, without recourse to Aristotelian logic.· To decide whether this emphasis is justified, we should translate the results into everyday experience.· The basic idea, in short, is that the problem of individuation should be approached from the horizon of ordinary everyday experience.· Sitting in one position to observe and record appearances does not conform to the majority of our everyday experience of landscape.· This relationship between frequency and speed, which is called the Doppler effect, is an everyday experience.· The laws on ritual purity hammered this home in practical everyday experience.· They are based on observations of everyday experience and language use.· It is these everyday experiences which help the child towards understanding.
· But life has become increasingly problematic as the years have progressed, because of the widespread use of microchips in everyday items.· It adds a bold splash of colour to all kinds of snacks, and turns everyday items into original-looking and great-tasting treats.
· It is usual in popular journalism to write short sentences and to use clear, everyday language.· Our everyday language reinforces the conception of the womb as a permanent space, an empty lodging waiting for a tenant.· It is, however, a term clearly understood in everyday language.· To foreigners, nomatterhow generously equipped with dictionaries, the everyday language of everyday people is incomprehensible.· Unsophisticated everyday language is remarkably accurate in the way it describes the spirituality of the world.· There are hundreds and hundreds of words that we use in everyday language to describe them.
· Others have developed a sort of domestic hyper-realism, seeking out the squalor of everyday life.· For example, the constructions can be found everywhere in everyday life.· The difficulty starts when one tries to say exactly what is the relationship between everyday life and the structure of society.· They are put forward as the stuff of everyday life.· These should be noted, before one views the siege as baseline myth for the interpretation of everyday life.· Deborah described her everyday life with her sons, which seemed very hectic.· A magically barred inner space, removed from everyday life.· A soul released from Nature, from impressions, and from everyday life.
· Mach almost always creates his sculptures insitu, using everyday objects.· In her more recent works, avalanches of everyday objects seem to fall from the sky.· Most of them were named after mythological characters, though there were also a few everyday objects such as a Triangle and an Altar.· Using everyday objects, basic scientific principles can be explained even to the very young.· Orthographic projections Orthographic projections are right angled views ideally suited to the study of everyday objects.
· Using such cash will eventually become an everyday occurrence for us all.· These next applications deal with everyday occurrences, and neural networks are playing a part in each of them.· What he wishes to do is to establish through everyday occurrences the realization within you of his existence.· Demos to outsiders, if not an everyday occurrence, were not unusual.· It was so long ago that it happened - it's an everyday occurrence now, people battering and killing children.· It was an everyday occurrence for the gentry to bed maidservants.· They took near-disaster as an everyday occurrence, which it probably is.· There cancer is not feared and dreaded, but is treated in a matter-of-fact way as an everyday occurrence.
· Instead, they were everyday people dressed in their everyday clothes.· It specialises in giving everyday people a glamorous look that would do the cover of any top fashion magazine proud.· Illustrative of every-day life and everyday people.· To foreigners, nomatterhow generously equipped with dictionaries, the everyday language of everyday people is incomprehensible.
· Not so where an illusion of everyday reality is more important.· Most of us, however, do not lead lives in which danger and adventure are everyday realities.· Because writs, charters, and other chancery letters became everyday affairs, their language was now intended to express everyday realities.· Our everyday reality is a grand illusion, a dream metaphor, which we are creating.
· Widespread and systematic crime occurs in normal, everyday situations.· I also began to listen and probe in informal research settings-the everyday situations that are rich with easily overlooked details.· You may like to check just how well you listen by practising listening in some simple everyday situations.· Although nearly all have used the metric system throughout their school careers they use Imperial measures in everyday situations.· The video showed everyday situations which the staff could relate to, and enabled them to make very constructive comments.· As we do so an alternative approach will be offered which seems closer to communication in everyday situations.· Songs are set in everyday situations and many listeners appreciate the gritty realism, although others consider the earthiness intolerably shallow.
· Summary statements are useful in everyday speech, where we are continually describing people as intelligent or aggressive or generous or nice.· It was just everyday speech, he said, and terrible.· What really disappointed was Amis' decline as one of the great modulators of everyday speech.· In everyday speech it is a decidedly negative word.
· Some of the jobs around a farm or homestead were minor everyday tasks and some were huge and laborious undertakings.· The awards are in recognition of their everyday tasks to help others or for those who have overcome personal illness or disability.· This process of dealing with her impressions was dovetailed into her everyday tasks without the two activities interfering with each other.· By asking about the everyday tasks of parenting the schedules obviate the need for time-consuming psychometric testing.· The less exercise you do, the more unfit you will become, and the harder everyday tasks will seem.
· My granny took to her knitting, and we spoke a little of everyday things.· So the ordinary everyday things that children did became scary in her eyes.· We are not carrying the cross when we are poor or suffering small everyday things - these are all part of life.· She wondered who would buy this house, moving in with their everyday things, their everyday lives.· Doris Howell recently suffered the shock of losing her sight practically overnight and finds everyday things difficult to cope with.· If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner.· Take time to look at and enjoy simple everyday things, time to admire people and places.· That's why I still cope now with all the everyday things like the ironing and housework.
· Reactions have varied, but it's universally agreed that the preview is way too unstable and slow for everyday use.· But they are both just too big for everyday use.· This is the money that banks keep in their safes or tills for everyday use.· The bottom octave and a half of its compass is the best part of its range for everyday use.· Keys made entirely of iron were also in everyday use.· It's still too eggy for everyday use.· I found the Vulcan to be a highly versatile jacket - great for hillwalking, spring skiing and everyday use.· Both tumbler and lever locks were in everyday use quite early in the Roman period, as excavations at Pompeii have shown.
· Of course, with benefit of experience, this is no problem in everyday work.· Transnational corporations have moved increasingly toward growth strategies that weave information technologies into the fabric of everyday work.· Consultancies have been slow to invest in the available new technology for the efficient detailing of their everyday work.· Today all sorts of everyday work happens on the computer.· This inculcates in rural officers a notably greater intolerance of pollution in everyday work.
· Measurement involves an intervention by our everyday world into the quantum world.· One day, we decided we would try to write about something from our everyday world.· Television is already about as divorced from the real, everyday world as it could possibly be.· The silence on the terraces outside the monastery heightens the sense of remove from the everyday world.· This poem shows the scientist as a law unto himself, outside the everyday world, not even hot-blooded.· Such use of the will is far different from what ordinarily passes for resolution in the everyday world.· Chardin observed the minutiae of the everyday world.· Our everyday world is a truly magical oracle.
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- Windermere
- windfall
- windfall tax
- wind farm
- Windhoek
- winding sheet
- wind instrument
- Wind in the Willows, The
- windjammer
- windlass
- windmill
- window
- window box
- window cleaner
- window dresser
- window dressing
- windowless
- windowpane
- Windows
- window seat
- window shade
- window-shopper
- window-shopping
- windowsill