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Glimmer vs Twilight - What's the difference?

glimmer | twilight |

As nouns the difference between glimmer and twilight

is that glimmer is mica while twilight is the soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

As an adjective twilight is

pertaining to or resembling twilight.

glimmer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A faint light; a dim glow.
    • The glimmer of the fireflies was pleasant to watch.
  • A flash of light.
  • A faint or remote possibility.
    • A glimmer of hope.
  • (mineralogy, dated) mica

    • Synonyms

    * (flash of light) sparkle

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shine with a faint unsteady light.
    • The fireflies glimmered in the dark.
    the glimmering''' dawn; a '''glimmering lamp
  • * Shakespeare
    • The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.

    Synonyms

    * (shine with faint unsteady light) flicker, shimmer

    Noun

    (uncountable ) glimmer' (m) - ' glimmeren (singular definite)
  • (literary and formal) magnificence, glitter, tinsel, something that shines
    • Rikdommens glimmer
  • :: The tinsel of wealth
  • mica
    • Glimmer er et mineral som lett spaltes i tynne flak.
  • :: Mica is a mineral that easily separates into thin leaves

    • Derived terms

    * Lys glimmer = white mica (literally: "bright mica")

    Synonyms

    * glans, prakt, herlighet * , mica, mikanitt

    References

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    twilight

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
  • :
  • The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
  • (lb) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
  • Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
  • *(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • *:The twilight of probability.

    • Synonyms

    * evenfall, eventide, gloaming

    Coordinate terms

    * evening * golden hour * nightfall * sundown

    Hyponyms

    * dawn * dusk

    Derived terms

    * astronomical twilight * civil twilight * nautical twilight * twilightish * twilighty * twilight years * twilight zone

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to or resembling twilight.
    • O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —(Alexander Pope).

    See also

    * crepuscular