Day and Quarter

Day

Day noun - The hours of light between one night and the next.

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Quarter and day are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Quarter" instead a noun "Day".

Nearby Word: daytime

Quarter noun - An area (as of a city) set apart for some purpose or having some special feature.

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Day and quarter are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Day" instead a noun "Quarter".

good	good day	good quarter
full	full day	full quarter
short	short day	short quarter
original	original day	original quarter
Other adjectives: single, entire, big, hot, final, extra, random, next, last, latter, different, red, fifth.

But after that touchdown, Luck, who had been fairly inconsistent up to that point, turned his day around and the Colts got 3 touchdowns in the third quarter.

Source: Miracle Rally
The reason a year and a day was used is because the earth actually takes 365 and just under a quarter days to complete a full circuit around the sun, which is why we have leap years (see below).

Source: A Year and a Day
Take Your Time: An especially egregious example in that each plot event will take a quarter of a day and at the end of the day, you're booted back to your house to sleep.

Source: Video Game / Touhou Pocket Wars Evolution

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