Twilight vs Midnight - What's the difference?
twilight | midnight |
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.
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The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
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*: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.
Pertaining to or resembling twilight.
The middle of the night; 12:00 am; on a 12-hour clock, 12:00 at night; on a 24-hour clock, 00:00.
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The middle of the night: the moment of time, which is equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
As nouns the difference between twilight and midnight
is that 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 while midnight is the middle of the night; 12:00 am; on a 12-hour clock, 12:00 at night; on a 24-hour clock, 00:00.As an adjective twilight
is pertaining to or resembling twilight.twilight
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* evenfall, eventide, gloamingCoordinate terms
* evening * golden hour * nightfall * sundownHyponyms
* dawn * duskDerived terms
* astronomical twilight * civil twilight * nautical twilight * twilightish * twilighty * twilight years * twilight zoneAdjective
(-)- O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —(Alexander Pope).
See also
* crepuscularmidnight
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(wikipedia midnight)Noun
(en noun)- "She twisted her hands behind her;
- but all the knots held good!
- She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
- They stretched and strained in the darkness,
- and the hours crawled by like years,
- Till, now, on the stroke of midnight ,
- Cold, on the stroke of midnight ,
- The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
