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dairy (DAIR ee) (noun)
Milk or a milk-products-producing enterprise; a milk store: Tricia will walk to the local dairy to pick up some milk, cheese and ice cream.
diary (DIGH uh ree) (noun)
A daily record written about by someone about his or her life: For her birthday, Marilyn received a diary, a book in which she could write about the events of her life.
Elsa wrote regularly every day in her diary while she was traveling in Europe.
A diary is the confidant that doesn't talk [but it can be very revealing if it falls into another person's hands].
Darin wrote in his diary about the class trip to visit the dairy and what they learned about milk production.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group D; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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1. A daily record of events or transactions, a journal: Specifically, a diary consists of daily records of matters affecting the writer personally, or which come under his or her personal observations.
2. A book which is set up for keeping a daily record, or having spaces with printed dates for certain daily memoranda and keeping notes about topics: Some diaries also include calendars that contain daily contents about matters of importance to people generally, or to members of a particular profession, occupation, or pursuit.
2. A book which is set up for keeping a daily record, or having spaces with printed dates for certain daily memoranda and keeping notes about topics: Some diaries also include calendars that contain daily contents about matters of importance to people generally, or to members of a particular profession, occupation, or pursuit.