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- At Night or In the Night? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
1 The origin of "at night" to indicate a point of time and the usage of prepositions "in" and"at" In olden times, when the time expression "at night" was originated, night might have been thought as a point of time in the day because there wasn't any activity going on and people were sleeping that time unlike daytime
- single word requests - Precise names for parts of a day - English . . .
The set of words that refers to the sky is: dawn (sky is getting light), sunrise (exactly when the sun is first visible), day or daytime (between sunrise and sunset), sunset (exactly when the sun is last visible), dusk (sky is getting dark), night or nighttime (sky is dark)
- At night or In the night - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What can I say about a thing happened at night? Someone stole my phone at night OR Someone stole my phone in the night Which one is right to say?
- On this night vs In this night - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In this night of wonder or On this night of wonder, which is correct? The full context is God from heav’nly splendour Comes to earth below; In On this night of wonder, The world is all aglow
- meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . .
Friday night at midnight probably will always be interpreted as "Midnight in the night which follows Friday evening" Midnight tonight This means (to me) the midnight following today 11:59 PM Friday 12:01 AM Saturday These are totally unambiguous
- When is afternoon? When is evening? When is night? Is there another . . .
I'm a beginner here, and I have a question about the evening night meal, and this is my first question It's evening The family is eating dinner From when until when is it considered to be "ev
- idioms - Is there a difference between the phrase a night out and a . . .
In summary, some major differences: The type of activity (going to the beach on a day out vs going to a play on a night out) The time of day and, to a lesser extent, duration: a day out usually starts during daylight hours and lasts 5-8 hours; a night out referring to the evening (after 4pm) and may be shorter (2 hours)
- Lunch vs. dinner vs. supper — times and meanings?
6 I'm from Africa, Nigeria, of Ibo extraction During our primary school days, we were taught that breakfast is the morning meal, lunch afternoon, supper evening and dinner night
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