English
Pronunciation
Adverb
day and night (not comparable)
- All the time; round the clock; unceasingly.
2012, J.J. Webber, 178 Siege Battery R.G.A.: B.E.F. France: 1916-1918, page 15:We were firing at top speed day and night on counter-battery work, neutralisation, and aeroplane shoots, and all spare men were commandeered to help feed the guns.
2013, Marianne Levy, Ellie May Can Definitely be Trusted to Keep a Secret, →ISBN:Kiko has it bad enough right now, with reporters stalking her day and night
Translations
all the time
- Arabic: لَيْلَ نَهَارَ (layla nahāra), صَبَاحَ مَسَاءَ (ṣabāḥa masāʔa)
- Armenian: օր ու գիշեր (ōr u gišer)
- Azerbaijani: gecəbəgündüz, gecə-gündüz
- Bengali: দিনরাত (bn) (dinrat), অহর্নিশি (bn) (ohorniśi), দিবারাত্রি (bn) (dibaratri)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 晝夜 / 昼夜 (zh) (zhòuyè), 日夜 (zh) (rìyè)
- Czech: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: dag og nat
- Dutch: dag en nacht
- Finnish: yötä päivää (fi)
- French: jour et nuit (fr)
- Galician: noite e día
- German: Tag und Nacht (de)
- Greek: νυχθημερόν (el) (nychthimerón)
- Hebrew: יומם ולילה (jomám va lájla), יומם וליל (jomám va lájil)
- Hindi: सुब्ह शाम (subha śām), दिन रात (din rāt)
- Hungarian: éjjel-nappal (hu), éjt nappallá téve
- Japanese: 昼夜 (ja) (ちゅうや, chūya), 日夜 (ja) (にちや, nichiya), 昼も夜も (ひるもよるも, hiru mo yoru mo)
- Korean: 주야 (ko) (juya), 밤낮 (ko) (bamnat)
- Malayalam: രാപകൽ (ml) (rāpakal), ദിനരാത്രം (ml) (dinarātraṁ), അഹോരാത്രം (ml) (ahōrātraṁ)
- Persian: شب و روز (šab-o-ruz), روز و شب (ruz-o-šab), شبانهروز (fa) (šabâne-ruz)
- Polish: dzień i noc
- Portuguese: dia e noite
- Russian: днём и но́чью (dnjom i nóčʹju), де́нно и но́щно (ru) (dénno i nóščno) (colloquial)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дан и ноћ
- Latin: dan i noć
- Spanish: día y noche
- Swedish: dag och natt
- Tamil: இரவுபகல் (ta) (iravupakal), இராப்பகல் (ta) (irāppakal), ராத்திரியும் பகலும் (rāttiriyum pakalum)
- Telugu: పగలు రాత్రి (pagalu rātri)
- Turkish: gece gündüz (tr) (night and day), sabah akşam (tr)
- Urdu: دِن رات (din rāt), صُبْح و شام (subh o śām) (literary, poetry)
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Noun
day and night (uncountable)
- Synonym of chalk and cheese (“two things that are very different”).
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