Sunrise vs Dusk - What's the difference?
sunrise | dusk |
(figuratively) The time of day when the sun (l) above the eastern horizon.
The change in color of the sky at (l).
(figuratively) Any great awakening.
Pertaining to an unusually early time of day.
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
As nouns the difference between sunrise and dusk
is that sunrise is the time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon while dusk is a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.As adjectives the difference between sunrise and dusk
is that sunrise is pertaining to an unusually early time of day while dusk is tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.As a verb dusk is
to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.sunrise
English
Noun
(en noun)- I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise .
- Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?
- It was the sunrise of her spirit.
Synonyms
* sunup (1) * crack of dawn * dawn * sparrow-fartDerived terms
* sunrise period * tequila sunriseAdjective
(-)See also
* sunset * moonset * moonriseAnagrams
*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.
