dailies
- 1Plural of daily.
The major national dailies covered the scandal on their front pages.
Several dailies folded when print advertising collapsed.
Note
The regular plural: the final y becomes ies, as with diary and diaries. It carries every meaning of the singular, so context decides whether dailies are newspapers, British cleaners who come in by the day, daily disposables in British slang, repeatable quests in an online game, or, in casual American speech, cars driven every day. Film crews use the plural differently: the word for raw footage has no singular at all.
- 2Lightly edited footage from the previous day's filming, viewed by the production team to assess the work; also called rushes.
Every night the editor and director screened the dailies, flagging takes that needed reshooting.
The cinematographer noticed a lighting problem only after studying the dailies the next morning.
Similarrushes
Note
A production word that exists only in the plural. Crews watch or screen the dailies, never a daily, and the verb agrees: the dailies are ready, not is. Rushes names the same thing. When American Cinematographer in 1972 advises a cameraman on how his dailies should be printed at the lab, it is a reminder that this footage was once a physical print, judged for exposure as much as for performance.
dailies is a form of daily
daily, noun: A publication, such as a newspaper or comic strip, that appears every day or every weekday. Full entry
- Forms
- dailydailies plural
- Spelling
- daily → dailies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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