What's the difference between daily and doily?

Daily


Definition:

  • (a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.
  • (n.) A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.
  • (adv.) Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
  • (3) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
  • (4) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
  • (5) Most patients of the bopindolol-group needed 1 mg once daily as compared to those on the nifedipine who required 20 mg b.i.d.
  • (6) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.
  • (7) This condition may be caused by the prolonged, repetitive elevations of gonadal steroids and other hormones known to suppress gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion that are elicited by their daily exercise.
  • (8) Buserelin and Flutamide were administered three times daily, intranasally and orally respectively, at a dose of 1.2 mg and 750 mg for twelve months.
  • (9) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
  • (10) 1 Rats were convulsed once daily for 7 days by exposure to the inhalant convulsant agent, flurothyl (Indoklon, bis (2,2,2-trifluouroethyl)ether).
  • (11) Seventy-six patients with established atherosclerotic disease were treated daily with either 250 micrograms of chromium orally as chromium chloride or a placebo for a period of 7 to 16 months (mean, 11.1 months).
  • (12) Assessments were made daily by patients, using visual analogue scales, of their pain levels at rest, at night and on activity, and of the limitation of their activity.
  • (13) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
  • (14) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
  • (15) Estimated fluid consumption dropped from 10 liters to 4 liters daily and incidents of hyponatremia decreased by 62%.
  • (16) Basal plasma levels of oxytocin were found to be low in sodium-deficient adrenalectomized rats and in intact animals treated daily with desoxycorticosterone acetate, both of which groups drank large amounts of NaCl solution, whereas basal plasma levels of arginine vasopressin were neither stimulated nor suppressed.
  • (17) Typical kinetics of local anaesthetics are presented for various methods of regional anaesthesia informing the anaesthetist on corresponding plasma concentrations if the recommended maximum doses are exceeded and thus he gets useful information for his daily work.
  • (18) Five daily injections of TGF beta-1 or -2 were administered subcutaneously over the frontal and parietal bones of seven-week-old mice.
  • (19) We conclude that once daily doxazosin provides smooth and effective blood pressure control throughout a 24 h post-dose period.
  • (20) We conclude that Fraxiparine is relatively well tolerated and shows accumulation after daily dosing with greater than 15000 U AXa IC.

Doily


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of woolen stuff.
  • (n.) A small napkin, used at table with the fruit, etc.; -- commonly colored and fringed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • nicholsonspubs.co.uk Little Nan’s, Deptford Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Rah Petherbridge Photography For something more hygge, pull up a doily at Little Nan’s on Deptford Market Yard and get snug in one of its deep armchairs.
  • (2) For captive female bowl and doily spiders (Frontinella pyramitela), data reported by Austad were analyzed in terms of food consumed.
  • (3) Longevity of free-living female adult bowl and doily spiders was compared with that of captive spiders fed at dietary regimes of one, three, and five Drosophila melanogaster per week.
  • (4) It's not Africa we are carving up now, but Mary Berry's lemon-drizzle cake , on a doily, in a pop-up marquee or at dinner in Downton.
  • (5) Two types of faster-growing partial revertants of the doily strain were isolated.
  • (6) A single-gene morphological mutant, doily (do), which grew at less than 4% the rate of the wild-type strain, had 3% of the wild-type UDPGalNAc content and 0.5% of the wild-type level of cell wall galactosamine but normal levels of UDPGlcNAc and cell wall glucosamine.
  • (7) Prices are appreciably higher than at the Richmond but the teapots are silver, teabags unknown and they do serve crumpets they way crumpets should be served, on stiffly starched doilies and Wedgwood china plates.
  • (8) Cell extracts of the doily cultures containing only 20% of the specific activity of UDPGlcNAc-4-epimerase found in the extracts of wild-type cultures.