Sunset vs Pinked - What's the difference?
sunset | pinked |
The time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
The changes in color of the sky at sunset.
(figuratively) The final period of the life of a person or thing.
* Campbell
(attributively) Having a set termination date.
The region where the sun sets; the west.
(business, politics, transitive) To phase out.
(pink)
(regional) The common minnow,
(regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar , before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
To prick with a sword.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 642:
To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
To choose; to cull; to pick out.
Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus , sometimes called carnations.
(dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment (of) some quality.
* Shakespeare
The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.
Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
*1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 23:
*:I had taken it for granted that there would be people ‘in pink ’, but these enormous confident strangers overwhelmed me with the visible authenticity of their brick-red coats.
* 1986 , Michael J O'Shea, James Joyce and Heraldry , SUNY, page 69:
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 6 points.
(slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare babbitt'', ''bourgeoisie .
Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
Having conjunctivitis.
(obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.
* 1976 : Bhalchandra Pundlik Adarkar, The Future of the Constitution: A Critical Analysis
(informal) Relating to women or girls.
(informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
(of a motor car) To emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
As verbs the difference between sunset and pinked
is that sunset is (business|politics|transitive) to phase out while pinked is (pink).As a noun sunset
is the time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon.sunset
English
(wikipedia sunset)Noun
(en noun)- 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
- one's sunset years
- The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.
Synonyms
* (time) dusk, sundown (US), nightfall, twilight * (change in color of the sky at sunset) * (final period of life) end, final act, swansong * last, terminal, twilightAntonyms
* sunriseDerived terms
* sunset shell * sunset yearsSee also
* moonsetVerb
- We'll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.
References
Anagrams
*pinked
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Verb
(head)pink
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(wikipedia pink)Etymology 1
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) pincke.Etymology 3
Probably from Low Dutch or Low German; compare Low German pinken ‘hit, peck’.Verb
(en verb)- ‘Pugh!’ says she, ‘you have pinked a man in a duel, that's all.’
- (Herbert)
Etymology 4
Origin unknown; perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked (Etymology 3, above).Noun
(en noun)- This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks .
- Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.
- the very pink of courtesy
- My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink .
- it is interesting to note the curious legend that the pink of the hunting field is not due to any optical advantage but to an entirely different reason.
- Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink .
See also
*Adjective
(er)- The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.
- pink-collar; pink job
- the pink economy
- pink dollar; pink pound