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twilight
(mass) | twilight
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twilight
(encz) | twilight,soumrak n: Zdeněk Brož |
Twilight
(gcide) | Twilight \Twi"light`\, n. [OE. twilight, AS. twi- (see Twice)
+ le['o]ht light; hence the sense of doubtful or half light;
cf. LG. twelecht, G. zwielicht. See Light.]
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1. The light perceived before the rising, and after the
setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18[deg]
below the horizon, 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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2. faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which
anything is viewed.
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As when the sun . . . from behind the moon,
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton.
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The twilight of probability. --Locke.
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Twilight
(gcide) | Twilight \Twi"light`\, a.
1. Seen or done by twilight. --Milton.
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2. Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.
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O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves. --Pope.
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twilight
(wn) | twilight
adj 1: lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides
down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the
twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
[syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit]
n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall,
evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]
2: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the
horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the
earth
3: a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight
of the empire" |
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twilight
(mass) | twilight
- súmrak |
twilight
(encz) | twilight,soumrak n: Zdeněk Brož |
twilight sleep
(encz) | twilight sleep, n: |
twilight vision
(encz) | twilight vision, n: |
twilight years
(encz) | twilight years, |
twilight zone
(encz) | twilight zone, n: |
twilight
(wn) | twilight
adj 1: lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides
down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the
twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
[syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit]
n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall,
evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]
2: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the
horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the
earth
3: a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight
of the empire" |
twilight of the gods
(wn) | Twilight of the Gods
n 1: myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle
with evil [syn: Gotterdammerung, Ragnarok, {Twilight of
the Gods}] |
twilight sleep
(wn) | twilight sleep
n 1: a state of general anesthesia in which the person retains a
slight degree of consciousness; can be induced by injection
of scopolamine or morphine |
twilight vision
(wn) | twilight vision
n 1: the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in
moonlight) [syn: night vision, night-sight, {scotopic
vision}, twilight vision] |
twilight zone
(wn) | twilight zone
n 1: the lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach
2: the ambiguous region between two categories or states or
conditions (usually containing some features of both); "but
there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences
that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal"; "in
the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity"; "in that no
man's land between negotiation and aggression" [syn:
twilight zone, no man's land] |
twilight zone
(foldoc) | twilight zone
[IRC] Notionally, the area of cyberspace where IRC
operators live. An op is said to have a "connection to the
twilight zone".
[Jargon File]
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twilight zone
(jargon) | twilight zone
n., //
[IRC] Notionally, the area of cyberspace where IRC operators live. An {op
} is said to have a “connection to the twilight zone”.
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