What's the difference between diary and null?

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.

Null


Definition:

  • (a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
  • (n.) Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
  • (v. t.) To annul.
  • (n.) One of the beads in nulled work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
  • (2) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
  • (3) In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x-ray source.
  • (4) At least two (Rh null and the McLeod type) are responsible for congenital hemolytic disorders.
  • (5) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
  • (6) The analysis also involved statistical tests of a modified null hypothesis, the generation of confidence intervals (CIs) and a meta-analysis.
  • (7) The null potential of both responses became more and less negative with a decrease and an increase, respectively, in the extracellular potassium concentration.
  • (8) The null mutation of algR was generated in a mucoid derivative of the standard genetic strain PAO responsive to different environmental factors.
  • (9) Endoneurial fluid pressure (EFP) was recorded by an active, servo-null pressure system after a glass micropipette was inserted into rat sciatic nerve undergoing wallerian degeneration.
  • (10) In thymo-deprived mice (nude mice and B mice) the percentage of null cells increases during the stage of regeneration, and B mice develop a large number of Ig +-bearing cells.
  • (11) Alkaline phosphatase activity was elevated in the lymphocytes from T-CLL, cord blood and tonsils and the blast cells from Null-ALL.
  • (12) Analysis of ldlA cells has identified three classes of mutant alleles at the ldlA locus: null alleles, alleles that code for normally processed receptors that cannot bind LDL, and alleles that code for abnormally processed receptors.
  • (13) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
  • (14) Null cells of patients with hypoplastic anemia did not produce erythroid colonies under any culture conditions.
  • (15) Comparison of simulated versus actual inheritance data demonstrates that the so-called null structural alleles actually produce functional globins.--The genetic controls in Peromyscus may be analogous to those in primates.
  • (16) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
  • (17) When the stimulus is placed at a position approximately 80 degrees dorsal to the eye axis, there is no response; this area is called the null region.
  • (18) Northern blot analysis showed that Adh-1 mRNA was synthesized at wild-type levels in immature seeds of the null mutant, but dropped to 25% in mature seeds.
  • (19) Two tumours were null cell adenomas with PIs less than 0.1 and 0.2%.
  • (20) Thus this methodology offers the potential to study naturally occurring ADH electromorphs and null alleles independent of enzymatic activity assays.