What's the difference between day and ephemeral?

Day


Definition:

  • (n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
  • (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.
  • (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.
  • (n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
  • (n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
  • (2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
  • (3) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
  • (4) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
  • (5) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (6) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (7) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
  • (8) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (9) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
  • (10) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (11) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (13) Spontaneous locomotor activity was lower in naloxone-infused rats on day 3 only.
  • (14) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
  • (15) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
  • (16) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (17) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
  • (18) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (19) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
  • (20) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.

Ephemeral


Definition:

  • (a.) Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
  • (a.) Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only.
  • (n.) Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Absent English-language material tends to be ephemeral or otherwise out of scope for the resource libraries.
  • (2) "We've seen evidence ourselves that the use case of ephemeral messaging is very powerful."
  • (3) The isolates have been typed as 27 separate viruses belonging to the bluetongue, epizootic haemorrhagic disease, Palyam, Simbu, bovine ephemeral fever, Tibrogargan and alphavirus groups.
  • (4) When mice were treated with P90 before being primed with sheep erythrocytes, polyclonal immunoglobulin synthesis was accompanied by an ephemeral stimulation of the specific immune response against sheep erythrocytes that was quickly replaced by a dramatic immunosuppression.
  • (5) The short course of respiratory failure suggests that toxin effect is unusually ephemeral with a mean intubation interval of only 8.6 days.
  • (6) The remark evoked a defensive response from those wedded to the ephemeral virtues of the "confidence fairy" – and who are concerned to keep her benevolent figure hovering above Britain's severely weakened economy.
  • (7) These sera were tested for antibodies against foot-and-mouth disease, bovine herpes virus types 1 and 2, lumpy skin disease, bovine viral diarrhoea, Akabane, bovine ephemeral fever, bluetongue, enzootic bovine leucosis, African horse sickness and African swine fever viruses and Brucella abortus based on the expected species susceptibility.
  • (8) The effects of abiotic and biotic mortality factors on preimaginal survivorship and the production of adults were investigated for populations of Culex tarsalis Coquillett at a stable foothill breeding site during 1985 and at seven ephemeral breeding sites during 1986.
  • (9) Before the silicon chip was invented, pen and paper, the printing press and the camera all helped store information for us, ephemerally or for posterity.
  • (10) Five cattle infected with bovine ephemeral fever virus were necropsied on the day after onset of clinical disease, when clinical signs of lameness were most severe.
  • (11) Determining heritability not only in nature but in relation to subdivision into ephemeral patches (cladodes in this case) has an important bearing on natural selection response and to general theories of stabilizing selection proposed to explain the existence of genetic variation.
  • (12) The duration of detectable neutralizing antibody in these birds was found to be ephemeral in some species (e.g., black-capped chickadees) and extremely longlasting in others (e.g., gray catbirds, swamp sparrows).
  • (13) Bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) virus vaccines, prepared from the brains of suckling mice infected with strain 525 BEF virus, were evaluated in housed cattle and in the field.
  • (14) Clinical signs of ephemeral fever occurred in four untreated cattle infected at the same time.
  • (15) Follies plays exquisitely on the unreliability of memory and the ephemerality of theatre; it is a stark warning against the distorting dangers of nostalgia.
  • (16) Similar sheets of cells were obtained from the cases of SSPE but the only nodules formed were smaller and ephemeral.
  • (17) In fact, it's getting into longer narratives through a feature called Snapchat Stories, which launched in October as a "fun and ephemeral" way to "share your day with friends – or everyone".
  • (18) Three adult cattle that had been ataxic for 5 to 7 months and a bull that had been paralysed for 24 days following bovine ephemeral fever infection were studied clinically and pathologically.
  • (19) Three newborn calves were inoculated intracerebrally with bovine ephemeral fever virus strain 525.
  • (20) Ten isolations of bovine ephemeral fever virus were made in Aedes albopictus tissue cultures from the blood of 5 clinical cases.

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