(n.) That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
(n.) Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
(n.) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
(n.) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
(n.) The period after the close of life; death.
(n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy patients were randomised to Fm 40 mg at night and Rn placebo and 62 to Rn 300 mg at night and Fm placebo.
(2) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(3) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
(4) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(5) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(6) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(7) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(8) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(9) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(10) Assessments were made daily by patients, using visual analogue scales, of their pain levels at rest, at night and on activity, and of the limitation of their activity.
(11) The findings reported here suggest that if women nurse exclusively for the 1st half year, maintaining night nursing after introducing supplements is important.
(12) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
(13) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(14) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(15) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(16) The subjects underwent a lumbar puncture and three nights of polysomnography.
(17) At 9.30am, ITV was at 69.2p, up 1.7% on last night's closing price.
(18) 12pm, Channel 4 press office: "I refer you to the statement put out last night."
(19) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(20) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
Nighttime
Definition:
(n.) The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to daytime.
Example Sentences:
(1) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
(2) These injections had no effect on either the nighttime increase or the lights on inhibition of SNAT.
(3) Activity index showed a marked decrease after 80 hours of sleep deprivation compared with that after 40 hours and was dramatically worsened during nighttime.
(4) The association between target organ damage and systolic BP SD was present both in men and women, while that with nighttime BP was present only in men.
(5) The pH of their gastric contents was measured at hourly daytime and two hourly nighttime intervals for 48 hours.
(6) In order to investigate the possible alterations of electrical activity of aged rat pineal glands, electrophysiological recordings in 3- and 18-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were undertaken at both daytime and nighttime.
(7) Thirty patients with endoscopy-proved symptomatic duodenal ulcer disease completed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of nighttime anisotropine methyl bromide therapy.
(8) In addition, we suggest the possibility that errors of judgment based on the nonveridical perception of motion displaced in time may play a role in nighttime automobile and aircraft accidents.
(9) The higher acid inhibitory effect of the twice daily dose regimens than of the single ones was evident during the daytime, whereas no difference between them was found during the nighttime (from 2200 to 0800 h).
(10) Sixty-eight percent of the unhealed patients were successfully healed; of these patients, 81% were free of daytime pain and 89% were free of nighttime pain.
(11) A homeless person is someone "who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence" and whose main nighttime residence is a "supervised public or private shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations; an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings."
(12) Since this effect might be mediated by exercise-induced cortisol secretion from the adrenal gland, in the present investigation we studied the relationship between cortisol and melatonin responses to nighttime physical stress in six healthy men, aged 28-33 yr.
(13) The present study indicates that the nighttime peak of N-acetyltransferase activity developed by organ-cultured chick pineal glands is inhibited by adrenergic agonists with a potency order characterizing alpha 2-adrenergic receptors: UK 14,304 greater than clonidine greater than alpha-methylnorepinephrine = epinephrine greater than cirazoline greater than phenylephrine greater than isoproterenol.
(14) One hundred fifty-six adult women were randomly assigned to receive either patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) alone or PCA supplemented with a nighttime infusion of morphine 1.0 mg.h-1.
(15) The pineal hormone melatonin (MLT) is secreted in a circadian rhythm with high serum levels during nighttime and low serum levels during daytime.
(16) Monocular drives were poorer than binocular drivers only in sign reading distance in both daytime and nighttime driving.
(17) These results demonstrate that forced nighttime swimming, unlike several other aversive stimuli, can evoke changes in the normal pattern of pineal melatonin production in this species.
(18) Finally, within the alcohol group, alcohol history was found to significantly correlate with nighttime mean and minimum SaO2 and absolute SaO2 desaturation.
(19) The urinary excretion of endogenous creatinine remained constant during both daytime and nighttime at both 1 and 31 ATA.
(20) Physicians have treated PCOD with clomiphene citrate or nighttime small doses of corticosteroids for 20-30 years.