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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)
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)
Is the expression the dead of night or the dead of the night? The phrase in the dead of night is idiomatic for late at night, or in the stillest part of a night While the variation “the dead of the night” is not grammatically wrong, the excrescent the is a bother and a possible source of ambiguity
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
Whats the difference between “by night” and “at night”? The expression by night is typically used to contrast someone's nighttime activities to their daytime activities, especially when the nighttime activities are unusual or unexpected
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