What's the difference between diary and ephemeris?
Diary
Definition:
(n.) A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
(a.) lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(2) A 99.0% response rate was obtained: 2750 of a possible 2778 diaries were returned.
(3) The personal experience of our son's prolonged hospitalization due to osteomyelitis (23 days) was detailed by an ongoing diary.
(4) The symptom diary and weekly questionnaire were demonstrated to be valid and responsive to change.
(5) It was my first day as a journalist, at the Evening Standard's Londoner's Diary, situated on the floor below.
(6) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
(7) The addition of the lower dose of nifedipine to atenolol did not significantly alter the weekly consumption of glyceryl trinitrate or the mean number of anginal attacks as assessed by diary cards.
(8) And Slimane is nothing if not single-minded: everything bearing his name – from show invitations to photography books to his online diary uses the same Helvetica typeface.
(9) And the government doesn't ask 300 million people; it asks only 7,000 families to keep diaries about how much they're spending on a basket of 200 products; the diaries lasted for either two weeks or three months.
(10) A ccording to Michael Palin's diary for Saturday 9 January 1982, he rang his friend George Harrison at 9pm.
(11) Subjects reported in a diary everything they either ate or drank for seven consecutive days.
(12) Symptom diaries were maintained throughout the period of follow-up.
(13) The hypothesis that bronchial asthma might follow a biorhythmic pattern was tested in 25 asthmatics with moderate to severe obstruction who completed daily diaries of respiratory symptoms and medication use.
(14) The activity of ulcerative colitis and response to therapy was based upon daily stool diaries, sigmoidoscopy, and symptomatic response.
(15) And for kids born post-smartphone, they’re the diary that us (comparative) olds kept on paper, the disposable camera that cost us £7.99 and seven days to develop at Boots: an inextricable part of how young people live their lives.
(16) Clearance of secretions by antibiotics was also identified by the patients, using a diary card score.
(17) The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Daily Sleep Diary (DSD), an instrument developed for monitoring sleep among chronic pain patients.
(18) The clinical efficacy of a new slow release preparation of the calcium antagonist gallopamil was assessed in 20 patients by diary cards and treadmill exercise tests.
(19) Student diaries and ethnographic data were used to explore how students manage the transition and to document their coping strategies.
(20) Sixteen patients recorded anginal symptoms by the diary method over a 6 month trial of randomly sequenced 1 month periods of drug or placebo.
Ephemeris
Definition:
(n.) A diary; a journal.
(n.) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac."
(n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days.
(n.) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature.