Dusk vs Murmurate - What's the difference?
dusk | murmurate |
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
Of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.
* 2009 , Daniel Butler,
* 2013 , Ruth Bass,
As verbs the difference between dusk and murmurate
is that dusk is to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk while murmurate is of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.As a noun dusk
is a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.As an adjective dusk
is tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.dusk
English
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
*murmurate
English
Verb
The mathematics of murmurating starlings, The Telegraph:
- By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds.
Word playing gives birds new nicknames, The Berkshire Eagle:
- There's a glister of goldfinches, an exaltation of larks, a swoop of swallows, a chain of bobolinks, a scold of blue jays, a murmuration of starlings, which are at their best when they murmurate by the hundreds across a gray sky.