(n.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
(pl. ) of Ephemeron
Example Sentences:
(1) Steven Hughes says that Talking Man is Steve Wilson: "And I wish he'd stop Lawrenson using 'sad', as a pejorative term, when 'Lawro' talks about all the ephemera that surrounds football - like statistics and such.
(2) The susceptibility levels of other indicator species such as Agrion, Hydropsyche, Brachycentrus, Ephemera, etc.
(3) The phone-hacking trial has thrown up many nibblettes of celebrity ephemera, but perhaps the most extraordinary latest reveal is that Her Majesty is a stickler for her snacks .
(4) The website is now a wormhole, a place in which it is possible to lose yourself in the beautiful but useless ephemera of a single existence.
(5) Standing in front of the first of two "glamscapes" of memorabilia and pop-culture ephemera, I am confronted by things I had hoped never to be reminded of again.
(6) A History of Bradford City AFC in Objects , a new book by lifelong supporter John Dewhirst, appears not much more promising than a compulsive collection of memorabilia – but it is much more than the sum of its badges, pennants and other ephemera which the author admits his wife and three daughters would eagerly de-clutter tomorrow.
(7) NAD dependent malate dehydrogenases of three trematode species, Notocotylus attenuatus, N. ephemera and N. imbricatus, have been investigated by electrophoresis.
(8) In this locality, specifically not determined Rhabdochona larvae were recorded from the mayfly nymphs Ephemera danica (0.4%), Ecdyonurus aurantiacus (7%), and Caenis macrura (10%).
(9) Only the first of those applies to the ruthlessly forward-looking Akira, which hits the ground running as it assembles its science-fiction apocalypse from memories of the second world war, immortalising sensory ephemera in the beats of its glorious animation.
(10) This is the biggest rescue operation since the credit crunch began – but it probably won't be the last" A lot from the Lehman Brothers: Artwork and Ephemera" sale at Christie's of London in September 2010, on the second anniversary of the investment bank's bankruptcy.
(11) Co-owner Ana Luandina publishes the Concrete Observer for her guests, a pamphlet of useful and unusual Porto ephemera.
(12) An explosion of newspapers, pamphlets, books, serials, advertising and ephemera was the result.
(13) Her work juxtaposes historical ephemera with a comprehensive portrait of mid-20th century black life.
(14) In accordance with the notice on the tree - 'fans are requested to pay their respects by leaving only small tokens or flowers' - the stone is surrounded by all manner of tiny ephemera.
(15) This life history pattern seems to be mainly due to the availability of infected ephemeropteran intermediate hosts during all seasons, in this case the nymphs of Ephemera danica, a species noted for its two-year development.
(16) So those of us engaged in this strange spectator-sport are driven to reading stock-market analysts' reports and other ephemera, which is the technological equivalent of consulting the entrails of recently beheaded chickens.
(17) Throughout the 1960s, London Magazine (Ross dropped the definite article in 1966) was an exemplary success, alert to a time of artistic fluidity yet never losing sight of its civilised principles; indeed, its editorial quirks - strange pieces on sporting subjects or exotic places, and an apparently inexhaustible supply of minor writers' interlocking memoirs among them - helpfully kept the magazine anchored beyond the fluffy ephemera of the decade.
(18) 'For the past 20 years I had been compiling information about the whereabouts of manuscripts, photographs, cartoons and lots of Wilde's ephemera.
(19) First, that more and more ephemera seems to be kept online – accidentally or otherwise.
(20) It’s a prosaic and familiar set of rooms, still furnished with the classroom ephemera – an overhead projector, a pot plant, some wall hangings – that only serve to emphasise the extraordinary and inexplicable nature of what happened here.
Temporary
Definition:
(a.) Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
(2) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
(3) Known as the Little House in the Garden, this temporary structure lasted over 50 years.
(4) Electromagnetic interference presented as inhibition and resetting of the demand circuitry of a ventricular-inhibited temporary external pacemaker in a 70-year-old man undergoing surgical implantation of a permanent bipolar pacemaker generator and lead.
(5) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
(6) Safety is increased through temporary discontinuation or dosage reduction of lithium in special risk situations.
(7) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
(8) Temporary threshold shifts increased for the first eight hours of exposure and then were asymptotic.
(9) Deafferentation of certain brain regions in adult animals results in (1) the disappearance of degenerating axon terminals and (2) in the temporary persistence of vacant postsynaptic sites.
(10) Poults 3 weeks and older developed temporary tracheal resistance to intranasal challenge following inoculation of either Artvax vaccine or formalin-inactivated Bordetella avium bacterin by the intranasal and eyedrop routes.
(11) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
(12) The blockage of the tubular system by the calcium oxalate deposits leads to a temporary reversible increase in serum urea and serum creatinine.
(13) The change in the magnitude of conditioned salivation, latencies of secretion and motor reaction was temporary, and by the end of the third postoperative period their initial magnitudes were restored.
(14) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
(15) But this regime is by no means a temporary regime,” Brandis said.
(16) We conclude that infusion system malfunction resulting in interruption of insulin flow is a common occurrence, is often associated with temporary hyperglycemia, and may account for some of the increased incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis previously described in these patients.
(17) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(18) Temporary hypertensive increases in blood pressure, or variations in blood pressure when there was an already existing hypertension, in which the blood pressure either moved within the limits of hypertensive blood pressure values or temporarily returned to normal, occurred in 129 men ages 23-85, in whom repeated measurements of the blood pressure and pulse wave rate (PWG) were carried out in the aorta and iliac artery in the course of a longitudinal study over years.
(19) Certain of the schistosomes were covered with a dense mass of interconnected blood platelets resembling a temporary haemostatic plug but not a blood clot.
(20) Emergency indications to operate have become exceptional since the temporary control of inappropriate secretions by pharmacologic agents is available.