Dusk vs Dirt - What's the difference?
dusk | dirt |
A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.
A darkish colour.
* Dryden
to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
* ,
To make dusk.
* Holland
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
* Milton
soil or earth
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
Meanness; sordidness.
* Melmoth
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
As nouns the difference between dusk and dirt
is that dusk is a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets while dirt is soil or earth.As verbs the difference between dusk and dirt
is that dusk is to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk while dirt is to make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.As an adjective dusk
is tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.As an acronym DIRT is
Deposit Interest Retention Taxdusk
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Noun
(en noun)- Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
Synonyms
* sunset * sundown * evenfall * smokefall * vespersAntonyms
* dawnHyponyms
* gloaming * twilightSee also
*See also
* crepuscularVerb
(en verb)More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
- I see the air benighted
- And all the dusking dales,
- And lamps in England lighted,
- After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
Adjective
(er)- A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.
Anagrams
*dirt
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy