Talk:yearday

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RFV-sense "Anniversary; an anniversary day." I'd like to use it as a word of the day in December, but I don't think it's attested... - -sche (discuss) 05:17, 18 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Likely similar to "Jahrestag" in some uses. Found [1] where it appears to refer to numbering days of the year. [2] appears to use the word in an "anniversary" sense. [3] appears to use it as a specific "anniversary" precisely analogous to "Jahrestag." Note that WK defines "Jahrestag" as "anniversary". Collect (talk) 14:04, 20 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
Isn't it a bit too rare to be used as WOTD? DCDuring TALK 15:03, 20 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
@Collect: The first of those quotations is of the mathetical sense ("a day in a year"), and the last one is of the specific "anniversary of a death" sense.
@DCDuring: some senses of [[yearday]] aren't rare (e.g. the mathematics one). However, I'll use a different word. - -sche (discuss) 18:31, 20 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 05:27, 7 February 2013 (UTC)Reply


What does "vial" mean in the 1887 citation?

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Equinox 22:16, 11 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

vial, a container for liquid. An allusion to Revelations ? Leasnam (talk) 00:27, 12 August 2018 (UTC)Reply