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Ambien vs Ubiquitous - What's the difference?

ambien | ubiquitous |

As a proper noun ambien

is trade name of zolpidem, a medication most widely known as a treatment for insomnia.

As an adjective ubiquitous is

being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

ambien

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • Trade name of zolpidem, a medication most widely known as a treatment for insomnia.
  • *2011 , Jonathan Handel, Hollywood on Strike!: An Industry at War in the Internet Age , p. 389:
    • Silicon Valley is not going to suddenly take an Ambien and stop innovating.
  • *2010 , Patricia Morrisroe, Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia , p. 119:
    • But Eckleburg is powerless against her, so I take an Ambien , and then, at 2 AM, the New York City Department of Transportation decides it's the perfect time to rip up the street.
  • *2009 , ":
  • *:The city never sleeps/better slip you an Ambien .

    • ubiquitous

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
    • To Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Christians, God is ubiquitous.
  • Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.
  • Widespread; very prevalent.

    • Quotations

    * 1851 — *: One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous ; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. * 1927-1929' — *: I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

    Synonyms

    * (being everywhere ): omnipresent * (seeming to appear everywhere at the same time ): ever-present

    Derived terms

    * ubiquitously

    Related terms

    * ubiquarian * ubiquitin * ubiquity

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