Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
- The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- Any faint light through which something is seen.
- (astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
- (figurative, by extension) An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.
Adjektiivi
- Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.
- Synonym of mesopelagic (“Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.”)
Verbi
- (transitive, poetic) To illuminate faintly.
Esimerkit
- I could just make out her face in the twilight.
- It was twilight by the time I got back home.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
- The twilight of probability.
- O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —Alexander Pope.
- dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight,
- In the shadow of an archway nearly opposite, leading to one of the many passages which diverged from the main street, there lingered one, who, having taken up his position when the twilight first came on, still maintained it with undiminished patience.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | twilit |
| Imperfekti | twilit |
| Monikko | twilights |