What's the difference between doomsday and universal?

Doomsday


Definition:

  • (n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
  • (n.) The day of the final judgment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is the doomsday scenario, but according to a leaked report of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation – a team of university professors, lawyers and journalists who spent six months investigating Japan's response to the triple meltdown at the plant – it could all too easily have happened.
  • (2) There are two tantalising psychological issues surrounding the predictions made by doomsday cults.
  • (3) The doomsday scenario privately discussed at both party conferences so far was the grudging election of a largest party of whichever flavour, but without the majority or mandate to fight its way out of a paper bag.
  • (4) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
  • (5) Hillary’s health hoax Most of the recent flurry stems directly from InfoWars, a conspiracy-fueled political site run by shock jock Alex Jones that funds itself partly through the sale of supplies necessary for doomsday prepping such as bulk vitamins and a year’s worth of long-life food.
  • (6) Thus, unlike you, we are not inclined to take the doomsday scenarios you have painted too seriously.
  • (7) The doomsday sort of threats of Mr Robb don’t help anything.” He said critics of the agreement “have got a point” about maintaining and protecting labour standards.
  • (8) The battle for eastern Aleppo in maps: how rebel territory is shrinking Read more The bombardment of rebel areas of the city continued nonstop on Monday during the day in what residents called a “doomsday” scenario.
  • (9) Under the title "Scaring children" he writes: The group most vulnerable to doomsday claims is children.
  • (10) Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise.
  • (11) • Alok Jha is a Guardian science correspondent and author of The Doomsday Handbook: 50 Ways to the End of the World (Quercus, £9.99) and How To Live Forever And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses for Science (Quercus, £9.99)
  • (12) Psychologist Leon Festinger coined the term in 1956, after studying how members of a doomsday cult dealt with the aftermath of an apocalypse that did not come.
  • (13) The risk is that satisfying the capricious whims of the financial markets leads to policy error and the doomsday scenario.
  • (14) AI doomsday scenarios belong more in the realm of science fiction than science fact.
  • (15) With almost half an hour played there was a reminder of the doomsday scenario for the home side of a Shakhter away goal when Aldin Dzidic headed over Forster's bar in a rare attack.
  • (16) For doomsday believers, the toughest of times is that moment of anticlimax, when the world keeps turning and the clock ticks on.
  • (17) The Doomsday Clock has not been dismantled after the cold war: but the advance towards catastrophe need not be inexorable.
  • (18) Ahead of Sunday's premiere of The Age of Stupid , an environmental doomsday docudrama, he compared those who do not accept that human-induced global warming is occurring with Holocaust deniers, and said the evidence for global change is now beyond doubt.
  • (19) Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) Remember, you have just a few hours left to get your recalcitrant doomsday friends to sign over all their assets to you.
  • (20) But in the daily Doomsday Clock countdown of Donald Trump’s presidency we at least see the foot-soldiers of the American government machine hurling themselves bodily into its gears, unconcerned for their own careers.

Universal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.
  • (a.) Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.
  • (a.) Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.
  • (a.) Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient.
  • (n.) The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
  • (n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
  • (n.) A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (3) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (4) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
  • (5) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
  • (6) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
  • (7) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (8) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (9) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
  • (10) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
  • (11) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
  • (12) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
  • (13) The records of all patients treated for thymoma in the Department of Radiotherapy of the University of Torino between 1970 and 1988 were reviewed.
  • (14) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
  • (15) Of 3,837 canine neoplasms from case records at Kansas State University, only 4 were of carotid body tumors.
  • (16) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
  • (17) By using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), we have developed a system for type-specific as well as universal detection of genital human papillomaviruses (HPVs).
  • (18) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (19) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (20) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.