What's the difference between december and midwinter?
December
Definition:
(n.) The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.
(n.) Fig.: With reference to the end of the year and to the winter season; as, the December of his life.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(2) The present study deals with 832 ossicular chain reconstruction procedures performed in 655 patients from January 1975 to December 1985.
(3) An analysis of 249 cases of neontal tetanus admitted to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, between January 1971 and December 1974, has been presented.
(4) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
(5) Hatching commenced in early October (after 23 wk), when air and water temperatures decreased to 20 and 15 degrees C, respectively, and continued until mid-December (32 wk) in the field.
(6) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(7) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(8) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
(9) The management results in 244 patients admitted to one institution within 3 days of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) from January, 1979, to December, 1985, were analyzed with respect to the timing of surgical intervention.
(10) In the Netherlands, researchers studied the medical records of and followed-up on 151 women of advanced maternal age (at least 36 years old) who underwent amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and elected to terminate the pregnancy due to an abnormal genetic finding (105 and 46 women, respectively) at Academic Hospital Rotterdam-Dijkzigt between January 1980 and December 1989.
(11) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
(12) The arrival on Monday was another first for the two countries since Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama’s visit to the Caribbean island.
(13) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(14) The musical would begin previews in Chicago on December 21, and move to Broadway in February.
(15) One hundred thirty-two of 397 consecutive percutaneous fine needle aspirations done at the University of Virginia between January, 1979, and December, 1984, for pulmonary lesions showed no evidence of cancer on cytological examination.
(16) "At first, after the [anti-Putin] protests started in December, the authorities got scared that they had lost control," Polozov said.
(17) Seven attempts were made between September and December 1978 at the Gollwitzer-Meier Institute of Cardiology; three dilatations were unsuccessful, two were moderately successful and two highly successful.
(18) pipiens disappeared in larval habitats by December but An.
(19) After operation, she was treated in the department of internal medicine for postoperative chemotherapy (TCMP-therapy 1 kur) and discharged in December, 1988.
(20) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
Midwinter
Definition:
(n.) The middle of winter.
Example Sentences:
(1) He owed his late-flourishing film career to Branagh, appearing in a string of his movies: as Bardolph in Henry V (1989), Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the old blind man in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), a cantankerous old thespian in A Midwinter's Tale (1995), Polonius in Hamlet (1996) and Sir Nathaniel in the musical Love's Labour's Lost (2000).
(2) Positive culture results were obtained on 39 of 56 (70%) rectal swab specimens collected in the fall from incoming opossums, and on 30 of 50 (60%) rectal swab specimens collected during midwinter from an additional group of clinically normal opossums, which were maintained in isolation for approximately 3 months before testing.
(3) Total conceptions exhibited a clear annual rhythm with an autumnal rise followed by a sharp midwinter fall and an annual low in midsummer.
(4) The Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott with his wife Margie at the midwinter ball in the Great Hall.
(5) It was the Dutchman’s 10th goal of a season he had started so brightly before sinking into a prolonged midwinter slump.
(6) The Prime Minister Julia Gillard with her partner Tim Mathieson at the midwinter ball in the Great Hall.
(7) Comparison of concentrations during two 24-h periods, one in midsummer and one in midwinter, showed that there was a marked circadian cycle in winter which was greatly modified during the long day length of summer.
(8) Back to article (5) In Henry V , Swan Song, Peter's Friends , Much Ado About Nothing , Frankenstein, In The Bleak Midwinter , Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost and As You Like It .
(9) A seasonal variation was observed in the time intervals between successive clutches; the shortest intervals (37 days) occurred from March through July, while the longest intervals (119 days) occurred in midwinter.
(10) The prevalence of mental distress in a general population north of the Arctic Circle at 69 degrees N was studied over 4 midwinter months.
(11) The midwinter decrease in adult abundance was attributed to the progressive mortality of the autumnal cohort and delayed emergence due to cold water temperature.
(12) This photic response can be initiated with light levels as low as 5.0 W m(-2) and is maximized by light levels only 5% that of midwinter sunshine.
(13) Gonadotropes were more common in sexually active males than sexually quiescent ones, while lactotrope numbers were much greater at midsummer than midwinter.
(14) With an old North Face down jacket, MacPac rucksack and mud-splattered Berghaus boots – the kit that saw him through the mountains of central Afghanistan in midwinter – he looks more uppercrust eco-warrior than county Tory.
(15) Insomnia not associated with any special time of the year was reported by 16.9% of women and 16.2% of men; insomnia in the "dark period" (midwinter insomnia) was reported by 17.6% of women and 9.0% of men; insomnia in the midnight-sun period or in spring or autumn was much less common.
(16) And all that marvellous, festive day and night, they came and went, the officers, the rank and file, their fallen comrades side by side beneath the makeshift crosses of midwinter graves … … beneath the shivering, shy stars and the pinned moon and the yawn of History; the high, bright bullets which each man later only aimed at the sky.
(17) The Labour party’s current sense of an opportunity, which triggered and was reflected in Ed Miliband’s speech on government spending on Thursday, may prove to be a midwinter spring too.
(18) At the core of our midwinter festival is something fundamentally irrational, an urge a robot would never understand: a need to make merry, to paint the town glittery, to lavish one another with food and gifts purely because it’s got so dark.
(19) This is the bleakest midwinter of Labour’s misfortunes.
(20) HIOMT activity per pineal gland showed a peak in midwinter.