Evening vs Onfall - What's the difference?
evening | onfall |
The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening', the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every ' evening , for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
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, section=chapter 2, title= (lb) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
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A falling on or upon; an attack, onset, or assault.
*1906 , William Henry Fitchett, Wesley and his century: a study in spiritual forces'':
*2004 , James Legge, The Shih King :
*2008 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company :
A fall of rain or snow.
The fall of the evening.
To fall on or upon.
*1889 , Harry Marshall Ward, Diseases of plants :
*1992 , Edgar C. Polomé, Werner Winter, Reconstructing languages and cultures :
*2008 , V. V. Adushkin, Ivan Nemchinov, Catastrophic events caused by cosmic objects :
To assault.
As nouns the difference between evening and onfall
is that evening is the time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark while onfall is a falling on or upon; an attack, onset, or assault.As verbs the difference between evening and onfall
is that evening is present participle of lang=en while onfall is to fall on or upon.evening
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ), corresponding to '' + ''-ing .Noun
(en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
Derived terms
* evening dress * evening gown * evening grosbeak * evening prayer * evening primrose * evening star * evening trumpet flower * eveningwear * evening wrap * good evening * this eveningSee also
*Etymology 2
Inflected forms.Verb
(head)onfall
English
Noun
(en noun)- The onfall of the bishops had helped to wreck this possibility, [...]
- Along with your 'brethren, Get ready your scaling ladders, And your engines of onfall and assault, To attack the walls of Khung.
- Six great land battles I count, with four upon the sea, and seven-and-fifty onfalls , skirmishes and bushments.
Verb
- [...] have been formed and ripened in large numbers, especially on the shaded ower sides of the leaves, the mycelium is practically exhausted, and as these processes are completed towards the end of the summer, the leaf so onfalls .
- 'the temple caught fire from the onfallen lightning' [...]
- Quasivertical and quasihorizontal faults filled with crushed rocks can substantially change the amplitude of a seismic wave behind the fault in comparison with the amplitude of an onfalling wave [...]