different between shadows vs dusk
shadows
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??ædo?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??æd??z/
- Hyphenation: shad?ows
Noun
shadows
- plural of shadow
Verb
shadows
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shadow
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dusk
English
Etymology
From Middle English dosk, duske (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?uh?s- (compare Old Irish donn (“dark”), Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit ???? (dh?sara, “dust-colored”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“smoke, mist, haze”). More at dye. Related to dust.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?sk/
- Rhymes: -?sk
Noun
dusk (countable and uncountable, plural dusks)
- A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
- A darkish colour.
- Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
- The condition of being dusky; duskiness
Synonyms
- (period of time): evenfall, nightfall, smokefall, vespers; see also Thesaurus:dusk
Antonyms
- (period of time): dawn, daybreak; see also Thesaurus:dawn
Hypernyms
- (period of time): twilight; see also Thesaurus:twilight
Hyponyms
- astronomical dusk
- civil dusk
- nautical dusk
Translations
See also
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
Verb
dusk (third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)
- (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
- 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
- I see the air benighted
And all the dusking dales,
And lamps in England lighted,
- I see the air benighted
- 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
- (transitive) To make dusk.
- After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.
Translations
Adjective
dusk (comparative dusker, superlative duskest)
- Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
See also
- dusk at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- skud
Middle English
Adjective
dusk
- Alternative form of dosk
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- what dusk till dawn mean
- what dusky means
- what's dusk and dawn
- what's dusk till dawn about
- what's dusk time
- dust mask
- what dusk sensing headlights
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