Evening vs Vespertine - What's the difference?
evening | vespertine |
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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(poetic) Of or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening.
* 1837 , William Evans Burton (editor), Philadelphia in the Dog Days: An Incoherency'', ''Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review , Volume 1: July—December,
* 1999 , , Walter Borenstein (translator), The Tribune of the People ,
* 2000 , ,
* 2004 , Catherine E. Rigby, Topographies Of The Sacred: The Poetics Of Place In European Romanticism ,
* 2011', John Lars Zwerenz, '''''Vespertine Fire'', ''Selected Poems ,
(astrology, of a planet or star) That sets after the sun.
* 1822 , , 2002,
* 2004 , , Anthony Louis LaBruzza (translator), Astrologia Gallica , Book 18,
(zoology, of an animal) That is principally active at dusk.
* 1949 , John Thomas Howell, Marin Flora ,
* 2011 , James D. Nichols, Camera Traps in Animal Ecology: Methods and Analyses ,
(botany) Occurring in the evening.
* 1993 , Verne Grant,
(botany, of a plant) That opens or blooms in the evening.
* 1818 , Thomas Nuttall, The Genera of North American Plants, and a Catalogue of the Species, to the Year 1817 , Volume 1,
* 1883 , William Robinson, The English Flower Garden , 2011,
* 2008 , Pat Mora, House of Houses ,
As a noun evening
is the time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.As a verb evening
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective vespertine is
of or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening.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)vespertine
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Adjective
(-)page 131,
- The peripatetics issue forth to indulge in the usual vespertine locomotion; and stroll gently down the aristocratic Chesnut and up the sedate and solid-seeming Mulberry, or vice versa.
page 124,
- Sovereign, majestic peace, joined to the spiritual isolation of the vespertine hour, rose up from those diaphanous, remote distances into the pure sky, where light little clouds, very much like bundles of cotton, scattered sparsely here and there, were tinged with gold.
page 34,
- 'I should be honoured, Ned. Truly honoured. Will you let me go upstairs and change into something a little more vespertine ?' He pointed mournfully at his speech day garb.
page 217,
- Although in the published version of 1815, this sylvan scene of vespertine quietude does not refer to anywhere in particular, the poem was originally written in response to a specific place: on 6 September 1780 Goethe penciled it onto the wooden wall of a hunting hut on a forested hilltop, the Kickelhahn, near Ilmenau.
page 34,
- As our ineffable ardor just begins, / All becomes fiery flames of desire; / Oh, welcome the dusk—and its vespertine fire!
page 44,
- But, owing to the vespertine configuration of Jupiter and Mars, as well as the masculine condition of the anterior parts of the triplicity, and the feminine condition of its latter parts, the said nations regard women with scorn and indifference.
page 56,
- Finally, he[Ptolemy] says that the vespertine' or second stations of the planets, especially those posited in the I.C. [4th House], and in the case of Mercury and Venus, when they are ' vespertine in day charts but matutine in night charts, signify temperaments that are ingenious, capable of hard work, and able to discern arcane matters, such as are seen in the nativities of magicians, prestidigitators, dream interpreters, and so on.
page 103,
- In both forms of this interesting plant, the medium-sized spider-like flowers are closed from morning until late afternoon when they open to attract vespertine insects.
page 59,
- In research involving American black bears Ursus americanus , Bridges et al. (2004b) recorded activity patterns at bait sites in Virginia and found bear activity was generally vespertine but exhibited seasonal differences with bears becoming more nocturnal in the fall, possibly in response to hunting seasons and possible pursuit by bear-hounds.
Origin of floral isolation between ornithophilous and sphingophilous plant species, PNAS,
- Similarly, the flowers of the sphingophilous taxa correspond to the characteristics and habits of western American hawkmoths in many ways: in ... vespertine and nocturnal nectar production
page 29,
- Herbaceous; leaves alternate, pinnatifid, asperate; flowers large, terminal and solitary, vespertine , (or expanding towards sun-set,) not deciduous or marcescent after closing, but re-opening at the usual time for several days in succession, when closed involute in a cone;.
page 184,
- It[Mentzelia ornata ] belongs to the vespertine section, or those in which the flowers fully expand only towards evening.
page 9,
- I read of vespertine flowers, night bloomers like four o'clocks, opening like mouths in evening prayer.
