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every
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
every
determiner
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all kinds/every kind
▪ He’s done all kinds of work.
almost all/every/everything
▪ Marsha visits her son almost every day.
any/every eventuality
▪ We are prepared for every eventuality.
at every (possible) opportunity (=whenever possible)
▪ She went to the museum at every opportunity.
each and every one of
▪ These are issues that affect each and every one of us.
enjoyed every minute
▪ I enjoyed every minute of it.
every angle
▪ Look at every angle of the situation.
every available sth
▪ You should practise speaking the language at every available opportunity.
every chance (=a good chance)
▪ There’s every chance that the baby will survive.
every conceivable
▪ We were discussing the problems from every conceivable angle.
every few days/weeks etc
▪ The plants need to be watered every few days.
every imaginable
▪ He seems to have been influenced by every imaginable musical style.
every inch of the way
▪ Italy deserved to win, though Greece made them fight every inch of the way.
every indication (=there are very clear signs)
▪ There is every indication that it is true.
every last (=used to emphasize that you mean all of something)
▪ All the money was gone; every last penny of it.
every shape and size
▪ The plants grow in every shape and size.
every waking moment (=all the time you are awake)
▪ He spent every waking moment in the lab.
every year
▪ They go back to the same resort every year.
every/each day
▪ The museum is open to visitors every day.
explore every avenue
▪ The president wants to explore every avenue towards peace in the region.
for every...pocketbook
▪ The aim was to provide a car for every age and pocketbook.
from every walk of life/from all walks of life
▪ Our volunteers include people from all walks of life.
have every faith in sb/sth (=trust them completely)
▪ We have every faith in your ability to solve the problem.
have every sympathy for sb (=feel very sorry for someone - often used when you have had a similar experience yourself)
▪ I have every sympathy for people who find it hard to give up smoking.
have every/complete/absolute confidence in sb/sth
▪ A manager must be able to have complete confidence in his staff.
have no/every intention of doing sth
▪ I have no intention of retiring just yet.
in each/every direction (also in all directions)
▪ At the top of the tower there are splendid views in every direction.
in every sense
▪ He is lucky in every sense.
in every way possible
▪ The company helped promote the scheme in every way possible.
looks every inch
▪ With her designer clothes and elegant hair, she looks every inch the celebrity.
made every endeavour
▪ They made every endeavour to find the two boys.
make every effort to do sth (=try very hard)
▪ I made every effort to see their point of view.
most every
▪ He plays poker most every evening.
of every hue/of all hues (=of many kinds)
▪ political opinions of every hue
pander to...every whim
▪ Highly trained staff will pander to your every whim.
practically every
▪ She sees him practically every day.
sb’s every whim
▪ Their father had always indulged her every whim.
use any/every means to do sth (=use any method or many methods)
▪ He will use any means to get what he wants.
use every excuse in the book (=use every possible excuse)
▪ He used every excuse in the book to avoid seeing the doctor.
watch/follow sb’s every move
▪ His eyes followed Cissy’s every move.
wish sb (every) happiness/wish (every) happiness to sb (=say that you hope someone will have a happy life)
▪ I would like you to join me in wishing every happiness to Annabelle and Steven.
wish sb (every) happiness/wish (every) happiness to sb (=say that you hope someone will have a happy life)
▪ I would like you to join me in wishing every happiness to Annabelle and Steven.
worth every penny
▪ The hotel was expensive but it was worth every penny.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(every) now and then/now and again
(every) once in a while
▪ I only see her every once in a while at school.
▪ All of these Helen used, displayed, wore, not once in a while, but every day, blushing.
▪ But look at them once in a while.
▪ He calls me once in a while or I call him.
▪ He just comes round once in a while and they go out.
▪ I do need to see every once in a while.
▪ I think you should change your shampoo and conditioner once in a while to avoid product build-up.
▪ I used to take him out fishing once in a while.
▪ They were both lonely, so why not see each other once in a while.
England expects that every man will do his duty
at every turn
▪ Government officials demanded bribes from us at every turn.
▪ Above: the craggy coastline offers new treasures at every turn.
▪ Emboldened by their mandate from the voters, the parties challenged de Gaulle at every turn.
▪ Everyone wants to define this free spirit of music, and at every turn the 26-year-old DiFranco rebuffs.
▪ He relentlessly shadowed Michael from the start, harrying the Ferrari at every turn.
▪ She had to be particularly vigilant when it came to the large amounts of water threatening them at every turn.
▪ The latter we were born into, but at every turn we exile ourselves from our own Eden.
▪ There Amelia was, an intensely ambitious woman without any professional training, blocked at every turn.
each and every
▪ He was a winner who still felt he could challenge the field each and every week.
▪ I always ask myself: How can the driver bear to do this each and every day?
▪ I suppose I should have put it back, even if it meant wiping off each and every bill.
▪ The Bruins face an opponent that likes to use each and every second of the shot clock.
▪ Then I made the description so precise I would always find some reason to reject each and every candidate.
▪ We need to examine the case for it in relation to each and every old person, whose circumstances vary so greatly.
▪ Yet each and every one of the weird and wacky items have one thing in common they are all absolutely 100% true.
▪ Yet each day these tensions are coped with in some fashion by each and every teacher.
every (last) ounce of courage/energy/strength etc
▪ It had taken every ounce of courage she possessed to board the aircraft after her last experience.
every bit as important/bad/good etc
▪ Barbara was every bit as good as she sounded.
▪ Here, the Fund runs many family projects that are less well-known but doing work that is every bit as important.
▪ It is for this reason that good balanced design is every bit as important as meticulous craftsmanship.
▪ It takes no more than five minutes and tastes every bit as good at the oven-baked variety.
▪ The explanation is every bit as important as the numbers!
▪ The traffic was every bit as bad as had been predicted.
▪ Things every bit as bad happen there, too.
▪ To her horror it was every bit as bad as she'd feared, and possibly even a tiny bit worse.
every cloud has a silver lining
every dog has its/his day
every inch
▪ He speaks with a public school accent and looks every inch the business executive he, of course, is.
▪ He was aware of every inch of her as he had never been aware of anything.
▪ I frel that it has, with every inch of my being.
▪ Now it's all ruined, every inch.
▪ Peterborough made them fight every inch of the way.
▪ The cold would grow solid, palpable, something to be felt with every inch of your skin.
▪ The Sharps estimate that they have hiked nearly every inch.
▪ This is an hour-long conducted tour in an old tram car, nostalgia every inch of the way.
every man jack
every nook and cranny
▪ We searched every nook and cranny.
▪ Everything moveable was taken out, every nook and cranny probed.
▪ Scores of supply vessels, tugs and survey ships filled every nook and cranny and even spilled over into the fish docks.
▪ The full survey will ensure every nook and cranny is inspected.
▪ We feel every ache in every nook and cranny, and the nooks and crannies themselves seem to multiply.
every penny
▪ He's worth every penny they paid him.
▪ His father was a rickshaw puller, so every penny the family had was laboriously earned.
▪ Licensed dealers will hold surplus money on deposit from them and take every penny they can.
▪ Smart public managers spend every penny of every line item, whether they need to or not.
▪ So, every penny that we receive goes towards cost-effective direct provision for the single homeless.
▪ The price-£ 50-seemed steep, but it is worth every penny.
▪ The way the salaries are escalating, we have to make every penny we can in this game.
▪ We do not dare budget every penny of our income.
▪ We would live frugally, on a strict budget, and save every penny we could.
every penny counts
▪ A doubling of the set-aside rate is not good news, coming at a time when every penny counts.
every second year/person/thing etc
▪ Dalziel was well known, hailing and being hailed by nearly every second person they passed, it seemed to Pascoe.
every single
▪ And the fabulous Brecon Beacons National Park flows past every single carriage window.
▪ Everyone in Calcutta knows that I am willing to take every single child.
▪ In the eternal struggle against administrative incompetence, we need it every single day.
▪ She was there every single night, a formidable figure in her long, black skirt, cardigan and black straw hat.
▪ The whole of that crab, every single pincer and leg, however long, had been excised with the knife.
▪ We want an accounting of every single dollar.
▪ When he came to reclaim them, every single one had been lost or sold.
every so often
▪ Every so often we go down to the beach.
▪ Every so often, Frank looked up at me and smiled.
▪ The silence was broken every so often by the sound of guns in the distance.
▪ And every so often a transvestite would swagger past, some more obvious than others.
▪ I come and visit him every so often.
▪ I followed Mundin into the shed, turning every so often and glowering at Fifi, who trailed behind us.
▪ It looked as though it weighed a ton and seemed to quiver every so often.
▪ It will do that every so often on your birthday.
▪ The every so often it was mopped, the every so often sprayed.
▪ They talked in a close huddle and every so often would both turn round and look at me.
every time sb turns around
every which way
▪ Dendrov branched every which way, a forest of tangled stags' horns.
▪ He shook his head in wonder and his hair went every which way.
▪ His hair, dyed tomato red for a new movie, sticks up every which way.
▪ I have tried every which way to get it back down on the bottom.
▪ I tried blanching and not blanching, cutting them every which way and freezing whole.
▪ Instead the field lines would be going every which way.
▪ Martin put a couple of slick fakes on cornerback Larry Brown, turning and twisting him every which way.
▪ They went every which way and there seemed no end to them.
every/any Tom, Dick and Harry
for each/every
▪ In 1988 for every 25 writs issued, one case was determined by trial.
▪ Log files are kept for every log-in session for every student management system user.
▪ Separate assessment instruments for each unit?
▪ She cautioned that for every fire reported, eight go unreported, because local jurisdictions can contain them without help.
▪ The metric tensor requires one transformation for each of its indices.
▪ There is a different price factor for each eligible bond and for each delivery month.
▪ We identified the actions that you originally saw as negative for each person on the management committee.
▪ Whole groups of state-owned enterprises would be sold, with the Council of Ministers being responsible for each enterprise on offer.
hang on sb's words/every word
▪ And the children of Elvis did hang on his every word.
▪ As a result, you find yourself hanging on to every word and gesture.
▪ We weren't all hanging on your every word anyway, even back then.
have a finger in every pie/ in many pies
in every particular/in all particulars
▪ Hann's analysis is right in almost all particulars.
it's every man for himself
▪ In journalism it's every man for himself.
it's not every day (that)
▪ It's not every day that a helicopter sits down in your backyard.
▪ After all, it's not every day you win an arena referendum and a game against the defending champion Lakers.
▪ It's not every day a young woman pulls a gun on a burglar.
▪ Well, it's not every day, is it?
love/enjoy/hate etc every minute (of sth)
▪ And even when the tires went flat or the road grew rough, we loved every minute of the journey.
▪ And he thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.
▪ And I give it all I got and enjoy every minute of it.
▪ But we were careless and happy and full of fun, and enjoyed every minute of the day.
▪ He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny, enjoying every minute of it.
▪ I got a goal and enjoyed every minute of it.
▪ I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months.
▪ The first mile was pure pain and I hated every minute of it.
of all stripes/of every stripe
of every/some/any etc description
▪ Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
▪ But there is nothing against rugs of any description.
▪ For example, he wanted to be a member of as many clubs - of any description - as possible.
▪ Her knowledge of publishing trends, literary history, and books of every description and genre, however, filled rooms.
▪ It is authorized to decide all cases of every description, arising under the constitution or laws of the United States.
▪ Superb apple pie with sultanas and cloves, interspersed with crusty bread sandwiches of every description.
▪ The action must take place against a backdrop of some description, even if it it is a blank black curtain.
on either/every hand
▪ Ancient oak gave place to modern pine forest on either hand.
▪ Gaston was a fishmonger who left evidence of his occupation on every hand he shook.
▪ Mist curled from the water on either hand.
▪ The drive is spectacular: gorges and tropical rain forests and waterfalls on every hand, but I thought only of Poppy.
once a week/once every three months etc
strain every nerve
▪ Vincent strained every nerve to turn himself into a draughtsman acceptable to the illustrated papers, and the strain showed.
there's one born every minute
use/try every trick in the book
▪ I tried every trick in the book to reform him.
▪ Victoria used every trick in the book to undermine Patsy in order to get the new job colleagues knew Patsy had earned.
with every fibre of your being
▪ And in that moment she wished with every fibre of her being that it really was possible for her to stay away.
▪ What she was sure of, though, was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Every room in the house was painted white.
▪ Every teacher knows the problems that difficult children can cause.
▪ Every year on her birthday, Jackie throws a big party at the Vineyard House.
▪ Fire regulations state that every single child should be out of the building in three minutes.
▪ It rained every single day of our vacation.
▪ She bought presents for every member of her family.
▪ The police questioned every single one of the passengers on the plane.
▪ Thousands of tourists visit Spain every year.
▪ We go to the movies almost every Saturday night.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Every

Every \Ev"er*y\, a. & a. pron. [OE. everich, everilk; AS.

  1. All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite number.

    Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
    --Ps. xxxix. 5.

    Every door and window was adorned with wreaths of flowers.
    --Macaulay.

  2. Every one. Cf. Each. [Obs.] ``Every of your wishes.''
    --Shak.

    Daily occasions given to every of us.
    --Hooker.

    Every each, every one. [Obs.] ``Every each of them hath some vices.''
    --Burton..

    Every now and then, at short intervals; occasionally; repeatedly; frequently. [Colloq.]

    Note: Every may, by way of emphasis, precede the article the with a superlative adjective; as, every, the least variation.
    --Locke.

    Syn: Every, Each, Any.

    Usage: Any denotes one, or some, taken indifferently from the individuals which compose a class. Every differs from each in giving less prominence to the selection of the individual. Each relates to two or more individuals of a class. It refers definitely to every one of them, denoting that they are considered separately, one by one, all being included; as, each soldier was receiving a dollar per day. Every relates to more than two and brings into greater prominence the notion that not one of all considered is excepted; as, every soldier was on service, except the cavalry, that is, all the soldiers, etc.

    In each division there were four pentecosties, in every pentecosty four enomoties, and of each enomoty there fought in the front rank four [soldiers].
    --Jowett (Thucyd. ).

    If society is to be kept together and the children of Adam to be saved from setting up each for himself with every one else his foe.
    --J. H. Newman.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
every

early 13c., contraction of Old English æfre ælc "each of a group," literally "ever each" (Chaucer's everich), from each with ever added for emphasis. The word still is felt to want emphasis; as in Modern English every last ..., every single ..., etc.\n

\nAlso a pronoun to Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser. Compare everybody, everything, etc. The word everywhen is attested from 1843 but never caught on; neither did everyhow (1837). Slang phrase every Tom, Dick, and Harry "every man, everyone" dates from at least 1734, from common English given names.

Wiktionary
every

det. All of a countable group, without exception.

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WordNet
every

  1. adj. each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified; "every third seat"; "every two hours" [syn: every(a)]

  2. (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception; "every person is mortal"; "every party is welcome"; "had every hope of success"; "every chance of winning" [syn: every(a)]

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Wikipedia
Every

Every may refer to:

  • Every (surname), including a list of people surnamed Every or Van Every
  • Suzuki Every, a kei truck produced by Japanese automaker Suzuki
  • every, one of the English determiners
  • Every baronets, a title in the Baronetage of England
Every (surname)

Every is a surname. Eber or Ivri was the descendent of Noah's son Shem and the ancestor of Abraham. In modern Hebrew, Evry is actually the word for "Hebrew". Eber's name is found on some of the earliest known examples of Sumerian writing. It may be of Norman origin and derived from " Évreux", a county in Normandy. The Every baronets of Eggington are claimed to be a branch of the noble house of Yvery, of Norman extraction. The earliest surviving records of the name "Every" date to 12 April 1591, when one John Every married Elizabeth Ouzely at St Dunstan's, Stepney.

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Usage examples of "every".

Every year, more children were born Aberrant, more were snatched by the Weavers.

For every hundred useless aberrations there may be one that is useful, that provides its bearer an advantage over its kin.

She gave every appearance of being concerned, though Abigail knew she was not.

We are willing to absolve you from them provided that first, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, in our presence you abjure, curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and every other error and heresy contrary to the Catholic and Apostolic Church in the manner and form we will prescribe to you.

Eminences and of all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion justly conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

And consequently I abjure, detest, renounce and revoke every heresy which rears itself up against the Holy and Apostolic Church, of whatever sect or error it be, etc.

Its principle was the abnegation of selfishness by strictly limiting the expenditure of every member to the amount really necessary to his comfort, dedicating the rest to humanity.

Every man aboard had imagined that sound, the music of the French terror.

Every man aboard knew that their vessel was a fine sailer on a bowline.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The routine aboard Bucephalas was the same every morning.

On top of that, every vessel he took had a quantity of money aboard, the funds necessary to purchase fresh stores and to pay for emergency repairs.

It was useless to take them to task, to inform them that this behaviour instead of easing their plight only brought out the worst in their superiors and made them the butt of every perceived mistake aboard ship.

Nearly every item that came aboard was subject to a gentle touch of his hand before being taken below.

Every action aboard the ship was dissected to see what opportunities it presented.

It sometimes seemed the abomination spoke from every mouth, watched from all eyes.