Tusk vs Dusk - What's the difference?
tusk | dusk |
One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
A tusk shell.
(carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth .
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 tusk and dusk
is that tusk is one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar while dusk is a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.As verbs the difference between tusk and dusk
is that tusk is to dig up using a tusk, as boars do while dusk is to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.As an adjective dusk is
tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.tusk
English
(wikipedia tusk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tusk (also tux, tusch), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
References
* *Etymology 2
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.