What's the difference between nighttime and sunset?

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.

Sunset


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Sunsetting

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
  • (2) Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, raised concerns about the sunset clause.
  • (3) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
  • (4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
  • (5) The entry pattern was more uniform than the exit which showed two distinct peaks around sunset and after midnight.
  • (6) The speedboat drivers pay close attention to the water conditions on the strait and try to approach the Iranian coast just after sunset.
  • (7) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
  • (8) Reflecting on the possibilities for top-flight football in San Diego, Hejduk says: “Why don’t you build a stadium right where you can watch the sunset in the background and have fish tacos in the stadium?
  • (9) By sunset, around 2,000 had left voluntarily in 42 government buses for government-run camps, but thousands were still left in Idomeni overnight.
  • (10) I don’t want to start naming names of living American directors because I’ll leave someone out and they’re friends.” He does, however, observe that with the exception of the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men and The Sunset Limited , which he directed, Hollywood has bungled adapting the novels of his friend Cormac McCarthy.
  • (11) But Cameron agreed to a "sunset clause" time-limiting the bill to 2016, a full-scale review of intercept laws, a new oversight board and restrictions on the number of public bodies that can make use of surveillance data.
  • (12) Steel industry sources pay tribute to the support that successive governments have given in general terms to the industry through apprenticeships, innovation and science, but there is a lingering sense that steel is a sunset industry; like the smog above the plant, a pall of inevitable doom hangs over its future.
  • (13) When fed with a purified diet, however, both tartrazine and Sunset Yellow FCF at 5% level in the diet resulted in a marked retardation in growth, an unthrifty appearance of the fur and death of 50% or more of the rats within an experimental period of 14 days.
  • (14) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
  • (15) Sit with your feet in the sand around tables cleverly designed out of cable drums, watching the sunset and enjoying a cold Greek beer.
  • (16) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
  • (17) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
  • (18) The maximum frequency is observed during the dark phase, the peak values occurring just after sunset and before sunrise.
  • (19) White Sands national monument Sunset at White Sands national monument, New Mexico.
  • (20) Normally industrial action of this sort, especially in the UK, would have the likes of the Institute of Directors telling us the cost in millions before sunset.