different between gloaming vs smokefall
gloaming
English
Etymology
From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English gl?mung, from Old English gl?m (“twilight”); synchronically gloom +? -ing. Related to glow.
The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English gl?mung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ? was shortened in the compound ?fen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject gl?mung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English gl?ming, modern English gloaming."
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??l??.m??/
- (US) IPA(key): /??lo?.m??/
- Rhymes: -??m??
Noun
gloaming (plural gloamings)
- (poetry, Scotland, Northern England) Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
- Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight
- Antonyms: daytime, daylight, nighttime, darkness
- (obsolete) Sullenness; melancholy.
- Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, misery, sadness, sorrow, woe
Translations
Verb
gloaming
- present participle of gloam
References
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smokefall
English
Etymology
From smoke +? fall
Noun
smokefall (uncountable)
- The close of the day before nightfall, when fog comes.
- 1935: T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, "Burnt Norton" (possible neologism)
- The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
- 1935: T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, "Burnt Norton" (possible neologism)
- The soot fallout from a cloud of smoke.
- 1985: T.S. Ledley and S.L. Thompson, Potential effect of nuclear war smokefall on sea ice (apparent neologism)
- The largest sea ice perturbations are generated by smokefall in spring.
- 1985: T.S. Ledley and S.L. Thompson, Potential effect of nuclear war smokefall on sea ice (apparent neologism)
- An artificial waterfall of smoke for shows.
Translations
See also
- crepuscule
- dusk
- evenfall
- fogfall
- gloaming
- nightfall
- soot fallout
- sunset
- twilight
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