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night    音標拼音: [n'ɑɪt]
n. 夜,夜晚,晚上,黑暗,死亡



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
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}]

nakta, nakti. [root]265. Cf. {Equinox}, {Nocturnal}.]
sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. --Gen. i. 5.
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2. Hence:
(a) Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.
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(b) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
of sorrow.
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She closed her eyes in everlasting night.
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Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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formation of self-explaining compounds; as,
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{Night by night}, {Night after night}, nightly; many nights.
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So help me God, as I have watched the night,
Ay, night by night, in studying good for England.
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{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

{Night fire}.
(a) Fire burning in the night.

{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.

{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
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
({Nyctanassa violacea} syn. {Nycticorax violaceus})
inhabits the Southern States. Called also {qua-bird}, and

{Night house}, a public house, or inn, which is open at

{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

{Night raven} (Zool.), a bird of ill omen that cries in the
night; esp., the bittern.

{Night rule}.
corruption, of night revel. [Obs.]

What night rule now about this haunted grove?

{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}.
specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets.

{Night walking}.
(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}.
of watch.

{Night watcher}, one who watches in the night; especially,
one who watches with evil designs.

{Night witch}. Same as {Night hag}, above.
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67 Moby Thesaurus words for "night":
Egyptian darkness, Erebus, all the time, all-night, blackness,
nightly, nighttide, nighttime, nocturnal, obscure,
obscure darkness, obscurity, pitch, pitch-darkness,
smut, soot, starlessness, sundown, sunlessness, sunset,
swarthiness, tar, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure,
total darkness, twilight, unceasingly, unendingly, velvet darkness,





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