What's the difference between rundown and sundown?

Rundown


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 11.54am BST Lizzy Davies has sent me this brief rundown from the briefing by the salvage engineers: • Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy's civil protection agency, said that the parbuckling was proceeding "exactly according to predictions".
  • (2) Twenty people were shot dead last year in the city's rundown housing estates, where youth unemployment is as high as 40%.
  • (3) "We inherited a crumbling infrastructure, starved of funding; Victorian schools with rundown gyms, and thousands of playing fields sold off," Sutcliffe said.
  • (4) However, Freeman bounced back into the presenter's chair in 1964, and continued to present the weekly rundown of the singles chart until 1972.
  • (5) Cohen has been filming scenes in the Essex port town of Tilbury, which has been transformed into a rundown "Grimsby", complete with householders urinating out of their windows and children being offered beer.
  • (6) At least two people – a woman, identified by police as Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, who apparently blew herself up by detonating an explosive vest, and a man hit by multiple gunshots and a grenade – were known to have died in the seven-hour assault on the rundown apartment block .
  • (7) "The building was so rundown they decided to break it down altogether to rebuild it," Archana's mother explains.
  • (8) The price of the specially formulated milk he requires has quadrupled since last year, so his parents have had to rent out their own home and move into a much smaller, rundown one just to feed their child.
  • (9) All too unwittingly but effectively and increasingly, developed world citizens contribute to the rundown of the planet's natural resources that sustain everyone's welfare.
  • (10) Instead, Syed explained, the area was overcrowded and rundown.
  • (11) Comic-book epics Finally, no Week in Geek preview would be complete without a rundown of the coming year’s superhero stylings.
  • (12) On a modest street in a rundown area, Aziz Kara, a 64-year-old Turk, became embroiled in a ferocious argument with his neighbours.
  • (13) After the rundown, reversal potentials of ASP-induced currents were the same whether recorded with or without the intracellular support system and the Asp induced currents could be blocked by the specific NMDA channel blocker ketamine.
  • (14) Tyson Fury has no fear of retribution – he will say and do as he pleases | Kevin Mitchell Read more Every Saturday night, crowds of men from our rundown housing estate would get tanked up and go to watch those from an even lower pecking order than themselves inflict pain and humiliation on each other, while the spectators egged them on.
  • (15) The three of us agreed it was quiet, non-threatening, not particularly untidy, just a bit rundown – and obviously a very low-income area.
  • (16) Adaptive rundown of e.p.s.p.s during sound stimulation, i.e.
  • (17) If you’re still searching for apps, Samuel Gibbs has a good rundown of everything that’s left , including Snapchat and Facebook’s actual messenger app.
  • (18) In experiments where evoked acetylcholine release was maintained at physiologically relevant levels, atropine had no effect on the quantal content of EPPs evoked at low frequency or on the extent of rundown in trains of EPPs evoked at high frequency.
  • (19) But the town also has a number of mobile home parks at the edges, some more rundown than others.
  • (20) The rundown curve was composed of an initial stable period followed by a rather rapid decline.

Sundown


Definition:

  • (n.) The setting of the sun; sunset.
  • (n.) A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pattern of correlations indicated that both rate of cognitive decline and initial sundowning behavior were significantly correlated with initial perceived caregiver stress.
  • (2) Disturbances of sleep and the sleep-wake rhythm are a common clinical observation in AD, as is "sundowning," the onset or exacerbation of delirium during the evening or night.
  • (3) Among the 89 subjects, 11 were found to be sundowners, a prevalence rate of one in eight in the facility.
  • (4) This began to change later in the 1880s – George Henry's Sundown or River Landscape by Moonlight (1887) takes Monet's Impression of 15 years before and transfers it from Le Havre to the Clyde.
  • (5) A celebratory rally had been planned to take place outside the palace after sundown.
  • (6) Numerous theories have been advanced in attempting to account for sundowning.
  • (7) All patients had sundowning behavior and sleep disturbances.
  • (8) Further, we describe the prevalence, possible causes, and treatment of sundowning.
  • (9) Hundreds gathered on Friday at sundown for a peaceful prayer vigil and march.
  • (10) Lost in the pleasant absorption of that silence,” Novo recounts, “of the panorama of rooftops sprinkled here and there with the yellowing treetops at sundown,” he suddenly felt Emilio approaching from behind.
  • (11) There’s always a swimsuit in the boot of the car and people are always planning where to go for sundowners.
  • (12) The Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder took aim from more than 70 yards and the ball sailed over N’dy Assembé’s head into the net without touching the ground for his third international goal.
  • (13) This association may be specific to sundowning behavior because there was no relation between the rate of change of perceived stress and morning agitation.
  • (14) Kral and Wolanin and Phillips have argued for a more psychogenic account, by stating that psychosocial stressors may, in concert with impaired cognitive functioning, account for sundowning.
  • (15) Muslim Brotherhood sources said more surprise marches were likely after sundown on Tuesday night.
  • (16) Among physiologic factors, odor of urine, being awakened frequently on the evening shift, and fewer medical diagnoses were significantly associated with sundowning.
  • (17) And no one would dare say that they would cut the water of Egypt," said Abdel Arabi, 39, who sat on a tour boat watching sundown's rays glint off the Nile as birds swooped in for the evening's final catch.
  • (18) To investigate the relations among the initial perceived stress of Alzheimer patients' caregivers, the rate of change of perceived stress, patients' sundowning behaviors, and patients' rate of cognitive decline.
  • (19) Caregivers' initial perceived stress and the rate of change of perceived stress, patients' sundowning behavior, and rate of cognitive decline.
  • (20) Infections obtained in sentinel larvae placed in the ponds for 3 hr intervals indicated that C. punctatus infected larvae around sundown.

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