Dark vs Home - What's the difference?
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Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
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#Deprived of sight; blind.
#*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
#*:He was, I think, at this time quite dark , and so had been for some years.
(lb) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
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*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
Hidden, secret, obscure.
*1603-1606 , (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , i 1
*:Meantime we shall express our darker purpose
#Not clear to the understanding; not easily through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
#*1594- , (Richard Hooker),
#*:What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
#*(w) (1819-1885)
#*:the dark problems of existence
# Having racing capability not widely known.
Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Left him at large to his own dark designs.
Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
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*:A deep melancholy took possession of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.
*(Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
*:There is, in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
*Sir (1614-1669)
*:The age wherein he lived was dark , but he / Could not want light who taught the world to see.
*(Arthur Hallam) (1811-1833)
*:The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.
With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either.
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A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
* Shakespeare
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* John Locke
(uncountable) Nightfall.
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
* Dryden
(lb) A dwelling.
#One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.
#* (William Tyndale), , xx, 10:
#*:And the disciples wet awaye agayne vnto their awne home .
#*1808 , (John Dryden), (Walter Scott) (editor), The Works of John Dryden :
#*:Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
#*1822 , (John Howard Payne), :
#*:Home'! '''home'''! sweet, sweet '''home'''! / There’s no place like '''home''', there’s no place like ' home .
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#*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
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#*:Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes , burying victims under rubble and sludge.
#The place where a person was raised; Childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
#*2004', Jean Harrison, '''''Home :
#*:The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.
#The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
#*1837 , (George Gordon Byron),
#*:He enter'd in the house—his home' no more, / For without hearts there is no ' home ;
#A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
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#(lb) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
#*1769 , King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, , xii, 5:
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One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
*1863', (Nathaniel Hawthorne), ''
*:Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home .
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*:So this was my future home , I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*1980 , (Peter Allen), song, (I Still Call Australia Home) :
*:I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home .
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
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*1706', (Matthew Prior), ''An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ?ucce?s of Her Maje?ty's Arms, 1706'', as republished in '''1795 , Robert Anderson (editor), ''The Works of the British Poets :
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*1849 , (Alfred Tennyson), :
*:Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
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*:Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.
(lb) A focus point.
# The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
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#(lb) Home plate.
#(lb) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
#(lb) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
Shortened form of homeboy .
*2008 , (Breaking Bad)'', ''Cancer Man :
*:Jesse Pinkman: Hey, homes . I'm joking! OK? I'm totally joking!
(usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
* 2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist :
Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
To one’s home or country.
* 1863 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne),
Close; closely.
* 1625 , (Francis Bacon), dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral ,
* 1718 , (Robert South), Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, And upon ?everal Occasions ,
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
* c.1603 , (William Shakespeare) The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice , Act 5, Scene 1,
In one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
(UK, soccer) Into the goal.
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(internet) To the home page.
As nouns the difference between dark and home
is that dark is a complete or (more often) partial absence of light while home is (computing) a key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or on the internet to the top of the web page.As an adjective dark
is having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.As a proper noun home is
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English
Adjective
(er)Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark , look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Synonyms
* (relative lack of light) dim, gloomy, see also * (sinister or secret) hidden, secret, sinister, see also * (without morals) malign, sinister, see also * (of colour) deep, see also * (conducive to hopelessness) hopeless, negative, pessimistic * (lacking progress) unenlightenedAntonyms
* (relative lack of light) bright, light, lit * (of colour) bright, light, paleDerived terms
* dark energy * dark flow * dark-haired * dark horse * dark matter * dark-skinnedNoun
(en-noun)- Here stood he in the dark , his sharp sword out.
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Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark , look for specks of light in the villages.}}
- Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark .
- Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark , and as void of knowledge, as before.
- The lights may serve for a repose to the darks', and the ' darks to the lights.
Derived terms
* after dark * all cats are gray in the dark * at dark * bedarken * before dark * Dark Ages * dark blue * dark brown * dark chocolate * dark comedy * Dark Continent * dark current * dark elves * darken * dark energy * darkey * dark fiber * darkfield * dark field * dark figure * darkful * dark glasses * dark horse * dark house * darkish * dark lantern * darkle * dark matter * dark meat * dark nebula * darkness * dark reaction * dark red * darkroom * dark-room * dark room * dark-skinned * dark side * darksome * dark space * dark star * darky * endark * oh dark thirty * pitch-dark * shot in the dark * whistle in the darkSee also
* black * shadowStatistics
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* 1000 English basic words ----home
English
Noun
(wikipedia home) (en noun)Don Juan:
Our Old '''Home: A Series of English Sketches :
Synonyms
* tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence * home baseDerived terms
* at home * at-homeness * bring home * broken home * drive home * funeral home * holiday home * homebuilder * home computer * Home Depot * home-grown * home help * home is where you hang your hat * home is where the heart is * home-made * home movie * homeowner * home ownership, homeownership * home plate * home run * Home Secretary * homesickness * home stretch * home teach * home team * motor home * nursing home * parental home (home)Verb
(hom)- The missile was able to home in on the target.
- Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug.
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* home base * home brew * home economics * home farm * home front * home lot * home movie * home page * home port * home plate * home range * home rule * home ruler * home run * home stretch * home theater * home thrust * home videoAdverb
(-)- go home'', ''come home'', ''carry home .
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches,
- He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
- I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
- How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ?hewing with what high impudence ?ome among?t us defend sin, ...
- to drive a nail home'''''; ''to ram a cartridge '''home
- ... Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home : ...
- Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home .
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- Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
- Click here to go home .
