What's the difference between aurora and dawn?

Aurora


Definition:

  • (n.) The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
  • (n.) The rise, dawn, or beginning.
  • (n.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.
  • (n.) A species of crowfoot.
  • (n.) The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 139 cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection (serological diagnosis) were treated at Aurora Hospital, Helsinki, between January 1975 and August 1977.
  • (2) Holmes, 25, is charged with more than 166 separate offences relating to the mass shooting of 20 July in Aurora, including first degree murder.
  • (3) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
  • (4) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
  • (5) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (6) That remains to be seen.” The Aurora Australis travelled through heavy ice towards open water.
  • (7) In private, Remington managers advanced an argument common to American gun-owners: events such as Newtown or the cinema shooting in Aurora, Colorado, earlier this year, however tragic, are primarily a failure of mental health care.
  • (8) Two survivors of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, where 32 people died, were present, as well as the stepfather of an Aurora, Colorado, massacre victim.
  • (9) The acting director of the Australian Antarctic division of the department of environment, Jason Mundy, said the rescue was carried out without a hitch and it was a relief to have all passengers on board the Aurora Australis.
  • (10) "While Operation Aurora shed light on advanced threats from sponsored adversaries, the number of compromised companies and organisations pales in comparison to this single botnet," said Amit Yoran of NetWitness.
  • (11) That did not stop Tyrek and his mother from riding the bus to Washington with the Newtown Action Alliance to join forces with families of gun violence from Chardon, Aurora, Hartford, Chicago, Tucson, and Virginia Tech and to talk to lawmakers about ways to reduce gun violence.
  • (12) Elle Fanning will play Aurora as a teenager and the cast also includes Sharlto Copley, Miranda Richardson, Sam Riley and Imelda Staunton.
  • (13) Aurora Energy Research has also forecast that the price of power will decline to £46 per MWh by 2020 on the back of reduced demand, more windfarms and lower gas prices.
  • (14) Ten non-profits in the Aurora area have had funds directed to them, he went on, when the families were "certain that everyone who donated their hard-earned wages intended for 100% of the donations to go directly to the victims … Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case."
  • (15) The cost of the rescue will largely fall to the ships involved – the Aurora Australis and Xue Long – and insurance.
  • (16) Derek Lovelock, chairman of Aurora Fashions, the owner of Oasis, says Schaffer did a great job on Odille.
  • (17) In Aurora, Planned Parenthood officials said there was an attempted arson outside the clinic’s front door on 19 July.
  • (18) James Holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student, is charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 by opening fire in a darkened theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora last July.
  • (19) In Aurora, attention focused on the apartment in Paris Street, where Holmes lived.
  • (20) He travelled to Fort Hood, Texas soon after the 5 November 2009 tragedy in which 13 service members died at the hands of a fellow military member; he was in Tucson, Arizona days after the 8 January 2011 that left the Congress member Gabby Giffords shot in the head and six dead; and he was in Aurora, Colorado to mark the 20 July rampage in a cinema in which 12 people were killed.

Dawn


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
  • (v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
  • (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
  • (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Greek police have said the 45-year old man arrested over the attack has admitted being a member of the extremist Golden Dawn Party.
  • (2) Far from securing the regime change they were seeking, the creditors now find that Syriza is being supported by all Greek political parties apart from the communists and the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
  • (3) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (4) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
  • (5) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
  • (6) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
  • (7) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
  • (8) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
  • (9) In the worst cases, they are the 21st-century equivalent of the desperate dawn queue at the Victorian factory gate.
  • (10) North American box office estimates, 8-10 April The Boss: $23.48m - NEW Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: $23.435m.
  • (11) As far as I recall, getting up at dawn is not easy when you're 17.
  • (12) I think it takes some serious balls to respond the way I did.” Controversy followed him to his homeland overnight when the Australian former Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser said of Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic , who criticised Tennis Australia and was subsequently dropped from the Davis Cup team: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
  • (13) There had been simmering tension between the Tottenham Hotspur manager and officers since a dawn raid on his Dorset home that was watched by press photographers.
  • (14) Dawn, 43, a former journalist has left the life she had behind.
  • (15) Timing of insulin injections will frequently need to be adjusted to blunt the dawn phenomenon.
  • (16) Only now is the full effect of the NHS act dawning on its strongest advocates.
  • (17) The often confusing circumstances that led to their courts martial and the ruthlessness of their punishments only fully came to light with the publication in 1989 of Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes's history Shot at Dawn .
  • (18) Plasma cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone levels increased and growth hormone (GH) decreased significantly during the dawn period.
  • (19) Ten minutes' walk away is the wonderful Blaise Hamlet (open dawn until dusk).
  • (20) If the Coalition keeps going down the current path, its most enduring achievement will be the dismantlement of the equity-based federal funding settlement achieved under Whitlam and the dawn of a new era of evidence-less policy making.