Dawn vs Emerge - What's the difference?
dawn | emerge | Synonyms |
To begin to brighten with daylight.
* Bible, (w) xxviii. 1
To start to appear or be realized.
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To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
(countable) The rising of the sun.
(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
(uncountable) The beginning.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) To come into view.
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, title= To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.
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, title= (label) To become known.
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In intransitive terms the difference between dawn and emerge
is that dawn is to begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand while emerge is to become known.As a noun dawn
is the morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.As a proper noun Dawn
is {{given name|female|from=English}} sometimes given to a girl born at that time of day.dawn
English
Verb
(en verb)- In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdaleneto see the sepulchre.
- in dawning youth
- when life awakes, and dawns at every line
Derived terms
* dawn onSee also
*Noun
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
Synonyms
* (rising of the sun) break of dawn, dayspring, sunrise * (time when the sun rises) break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, dayspring, sunrise, sunup * (beginning) beginning, onset, startAntonyms
* duskHypernyms
* twilightDerived terms
* crack of dawn * dawn chorus * it is always darkest before the dawnSee also
* crepuscularAnagrams
* wand ----emerge
English
Verb
(emerg)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
Internal Combustion, passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report, passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.}}
Sneaky Silk Moths, passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}