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night 音标拼音: [n'ɑɪt] n. 夜,夜晚,晚上,黑暗,死亡 夜,夜晚,晚上,黑暗,死亡 night夜间 night n 1: the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside [ synonym: { night}, { nighttime}, { dark}] [ ant: { day}, { daylight}, { daytime}] 2: a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom 3: the period spent sleeping; " I had a restless night" 4: the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; " three nights later he collapsed" 5: darkness; " it vanished into the night" 6: a shortening of nightfall; " they worked from morning to night" 7: the time between sunset and midnight; " he watched television every night" 8: Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx [ synonym: { Nox}, { Night}] Night \ Night\ ( n[ imac] t), n. [ OE. night, niht, AS. neaht, niht; akin to D. nacht, OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n[= o] tt, Sw. natt, Dan. nat, Goth. nahts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche, W. nos, Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, Gr. ny` x, nykto` s, Skr. nakta, nakti. [ root] 265. Cf. { Equinox}, { Nocturnal}.] 1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light. [ 1913 Webster] And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. -- Gen. i. 5. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence: ( a) Darkness; obscurity; concealment. [ 1913 Webster] Nature and nature' s laws lay hid in night. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] ( b) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance. ( c) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow. ( d) The period after the close of life; death. [ 1913 Webster] She closed her eyes in everlasting night. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Do not go gentle into that good night Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -- Dylan Thomas. [ PJC] ( e) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. " Sad winter' s night". -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Night is sometimes used, esp. with participles, in the formation of self- explaining compounds; as, night- blooming, night- born, night- warbling, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { Night by night}, { Night after night}, nightly; many nights. [ 1913 Webster] So help me God, as I have watched the night, Ay, night by night, in studying good for England. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Night bird}. ( Zool.) ( a) The moor hen ({ Gallinula chloropus}). ( b) The Manx shearwater ({ Puffinus Anglorum}). { Night blindness}. ( Med.) See { Hemeralopia}. { Night cart}, a cart used to remove the contents of privies by night. { Night churr}, ( Zool.), the nightjar. { Night crow}, a bird that cries in the night. { Night dog}, a dog that hunts in the night, -- used by poachers. { Night fire}. ( a) Fire burning in the night. ( b) Ignis fatuus; Will- o'- the- wisp; Jask- with- a- lantern. { Night flyer} ( Zool.), any creature that flies in the night, as some birds and insects. { night glass}, a spyglass constructed to concentrate a large amount of light, so as see objects distinctly at night. -- Totten. { Night green}, iodine green. { Night hag}, a witch supposed to wander in the night. { Night hawk} ( Zool.), an American bird ({ Chordeiles Virginianus}), allied to the goatsucker. It hunts the insects on which it feeds toward evening, on the wing, and often, diving down perpendicularly, produces a loud whirring sound, like that of a spinning wheel. Also sometimes applied to the European goatsuckers. It is called also { bull bat}. { Night heron} ( Zool.), any one of several species of herons of the genus { Nycticorax}, found in various parts of the world. The best known species is { Nycticorax griseus}, or { Nycticorax nycticorax}, of Europe, and the American variety ( var. naevius). The yellow- crowned night heron ({ Nyctanassa violacea} syn. { Nycticorax violaceus}) inhabits the Southern States. Called also { qua- bird}, and { squawk}. { Night house}, a public house, or inn, which is open at night. { Night key}, a key for unfastening a night latch. { Night latch}, a kind of latch for a door, which is operated from the outside by a key. { Night monkey} ( Zool.), an owl monkey. { night moth} ( Zool.), any one of the noctuids. { Night parrot} ( Zool.), the kakapo. { Night piece}, a painting representing some night scene, as a moonlight effect, or the like. { Night rail}, a loose robe, or garment, worn either as a nightgown, or over the dress at night, or in sickness. [ Obs.] { Night raven} ( Zool.), a bird of ill omen that cries in the night; esp., the bittern. { Night rule}. ( a) A tumult, or frolic, in the night; -- as if a corruption, of night revel. [ Obs.] ( b) Such conduct as generally rules, or prevails, at night. What night rule now about this haunted grove? -- Shak. { Night sight}. ( Med.) See { Nyctolopia}. { Night snap}, a night thief. [ Cant] -- Beau. & Fl. { Night soil}, human excrement; -- so called because in cities it is collected by night and carried away for manure. { Night spell}, a charm against accidents at night. { Night swallow} ( Zool.), the nightjar. { Night walk}, a walk in the evening or night. { Night walker}. ( a) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist; a noctambulist. ( b) One who roves about in the night for evil purposes; specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets. { Night walking}. ( a) Walking in one' s sleep; sleep walking; somnambulism; noctambulism. ( b) Walking the streets at night with evil designs. { Night warbler} ( Zool.), the sedge warbler ({ Acrocephalus phragmitis}); -- called also { night singer}. [ Prov. Eng.] { Night watch}. ( a) A period in the night, as distinguished by the change of watch. ( b) A watch, or guard, to aford protection in the night. { Night watcher}, one who watches in the night; especially, one who watches with evil designs. { Night witch}. Same as { Night hag}, above. [ 1913 Webster] 67 Moby Thesaurus words for " night": Egyptian darkness, Erebus, all the time, all- night, blackness, ceaselessly, charcoal, coal, continually, continuously, crow, dark, dark of night, darkness, darkness visible, dead of night, dusk, ebon, ebony, endlessly, evening, evensong, eventide, gloaming, incessantly, ink, intense darkness, jet, lightlessness, midnight, moonlessness, night and day, night- fallen, nightfall, nightlong, nightly, nighttide, nighttime, nocturnal, obscure, obscure darkness, obscurity, pitch, pitch- darkness, pitchy darkness, raven, round- the- clock, sable night, sloe, smoke, smut, soot, starlessness, sundown, sunlessness, sunset, swarthiness, tar, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, total darkness, twilight, unceasingly, unendingly, velvet darkness, vespers |
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