each vs every
Definitions
adverb
- to or from every one of two or more (considered individually)
adjective
- (used of count nouns) every one considered individually
Examples
The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next.
They will also force schools to put more emphasis on teaching basic subjects.
The Staff of Volans has a limited supply of magic energy. Roll a dice after each spell is cast.
Definitions
adjective
- each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified
- (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception
Examples
I bought a dozen eggs and every one of them was bad.
When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails.
