What's the difference between day and gloaming?

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.

Gloaming


Definition:

  • (n.) Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.
  • (n.) Sullenness; melancholy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was happily haunted for many years afterwards by the spooky gothic stairs, halls, corridors and windows I had witnessed vanishing into a kind of architectural gloaming even in the middle of a bright June day.
  • (2) A s the air cools in a fir-lined valley east of Croatia's Velebit mountains, the bears of Kuterevo stir to life in the gloaming.
  • (3) I’d arrived a bit late for its golden age (my adventures in the medium took place somewhere between sunset and the gloaming of that particular period), but it was enjoyable enough.
  • (4) I can just see him in the gloaming, sat in his make-believe producer's chair, fantasising about presiding over a set of Hollywood stars at his beck and call.
  • (5) In the early morning gloaming, they descend into the network of subterranean passages that span the few hundreds metres across the Gazan border, into Egypt.
  • (6) Out walking after dinner, I stumbled across a group of around 100 women who, in the gloaming, filled a square with exquisitely choreographed dancing, arms making great sweeps of the sky, moving as one, like a flock of murmurating birds.
  • (7) You're struck by their ability to shift their sound completely between songs – from the crushing bass-heavy riff of Myxamatosis to These Are My Twisted Words's spindly, thin, cyclical guitars to the unsettling electronic abstraction of The Gloaming.
  • (8) No sudden appearances from David Starkey, looming out of the historical gloaming like the ghost of a cantankerous 1930s dinner lady.
  • (9) For a long time I most appreciated local colours in the gloaming when light was in the sky and streets were lit artificially.
  • (10) Updated at 1.38am BST 1.21am BST Wandering the town 12.59am BST This is the gloaming We've entered the American "witching hour", the time between work and everything else.
  • (11) While David retreats into an ever-deepening huff ("Nothing makes me happy these days"), relentlessly perky overspender Jackie stumbles through the financial gloaming like a woman who has been hit over the head with a dollar-shaped frying pan.
  • (12) I always feel strongly that line in The Gloaming: 'You are murderers – we are not the same as you'.
  • (13) Our conversation begins to tail off: the gloaming and the sense of anti-climax in the car are doing their work (the farm, all clapboard and rickety outbuildings, wasn't right for April and Ken; they want a beautiful place, so people can stay and attend cookery classes).
  • (14) The Champs Élysées in the gloaming: a dream venue for a romantic evening.
  • (15) A few years after the boycott it was snowing outside the Royal Albert Hall for an evening tournament in December and Pilic emerged from the picturesque car-park gloaming in a great long leather coat and carrying his rackets like rifles.

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