What's the difference between crepuscular and twilight?

Crepuscular


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Crepusculous

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One type of short-axon horizontal cell (HC) and one type of axonless HC are described in the retina of Carinae noctua, a crepuscular bird and Tyto alba, a pure nocturnal bird.
  • (2) Yet it is ever more dissected by hacks and bloggers who pretend to be heretical but are just gossip merchants who never question the deep structures of governance and merely legitimate their own crepuscular existence.
  • (3) "Late" like the autumnal, musical Eliot of Four Quartets; like the demanding, crepuscular Beethoven quartet the film's characters rehearse for their silver-anniversary performance (String Quartet No 14 in C sharp minor – menacingly referred to as "Op 131"); and "late" in the connected senses of former or dead, which this quarrelsome foursome soon might be if they fail to recover their harmony.
  • (4) To describe his work in progress, he jotted down a list of hyperbolic adjectives: "Astounding, extraordinary, surprising, superhuman, supernatural, unheard of, savage, sinister, formidable, gigantic, savage, colossal, monstrous, deformed, disturbed, electrifying, lugubrious, funereal, hideous, terrifying, shadowy, mysterious, fantastic, nocturnal, crepuscular."
  • (5) Hourly sampling with human bait showed a bimodal pattern, with a greater peak in the evening crepuscular period.
  • (6) Malaise-trapped females showed a distinct crepuscular peak of host-seeking activity.
  • (7) Whereas in humans the retinal sampling frequency approaches the optical cut-off frequency quite closely, in diurnal insects of both types the image is undersampled by a factor of 2-3, and in crepuscular spiders this factor may be greater than 100.
  • (8) Paranoid reaction may get closer to hysterical crepuscular states.
  • (9) Longterm castrates (under LD 8:16) displaying either predominantly diurnal or crepuscular activity were implanted with either empty Silastic capsules or capsules containing testosterone.
  • (10) Errol Morris , a respected documentarian himself and one of the film's executive producers (along with Werner Herzog ), defended the film on the grounds that "by re-enacting the murders … [we] could become reconnected to a history that had nearly vanished into a crepuscular past."
  • (11) The superposition eye of the cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha, exhibits the typical features of many nocturnal and crepuscular scarabaeid beetles: the dioptric apparatus of each ommatidium consists of a thick corneal lens with a strong inner convexity attached to a crystalline cone, that is surrounded by two primary and 9-11 secondary pigment cells.
  • (12) We found that the gerbil in captivity, unlike most rodents that are nocturnal, is a crepuscular animal, being more active at the transitions between light and dark.
  • (13) Repellency was determined during a 2 h crepuscular period using volunteers who had been treated with repellents 6, 8, 10, and 12 h prior to the end of each test period.
  • (14) Biting occurred during the day with early morning and late afternoon peaks and continued into the crepuscular period.
  • (15) Castrates showed a trend toward increased crepuscular preference.
  • (16) The present experiments were designed to examine the effects of various durations of day- and night-time exposures to low intensity (1.0 gauss rms) 60 Hz magnetic fields on light (L) and dark (D) period opioid-mediated aversive thermal ('nociceptive') responses and morphine-induced 'analgesia' in the nocturnally-crepuscularly active land snail, Cepaea nemoralis.
  • (17) Green sunfish actively avoided temperatures exceeding 30.3 degrees C and below 26.5 degrees C and had a median preferred temperature of 28.2 degrees C. Temperature preference did not vary significantly during the diel period even though locomotory activity patterns were markedly crepuscular.
  • (18) The effects of various durations (0.5, 2, 12, 48, or 120 h) of day- and night-time exposures to a 1.0 gauss (rms) 60-Hz magnetic field or sham field on mortality levels in the nocturnally-crepuscularly active land snail, Cepaea nemoralis, were examined.
  • (19) In relation to the vespertine crepuscular period, precrepuscular peaks were observed in the highland area.
  • (20) Animals with testosterone implants displayed increased preference for nocturnal and decreased preference for crepuscular activity as compared to controls.

Twilight


Definition:

  • (n.) The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18¡ below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
  • (n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.
  • (a.) Seen or done by twilight.
  • (a.) Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Activity peaked during the period corresponding to evening twilight and was negligible during the morning twilight period; in contrast, death feigning peaked during the morning twilight period.
  • (2) "Around 2009, when Twilight was huge and Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were wearing ripped jeans, that look was big, though it wasn't really from the catwalk," he said.
  • (3) Traumatic twilight state on the one and amnestic episode (transient global amnesia) on the other side are as a rule easy to differentiate from the patient's age, his behavior during the acute state of disease and the kind of its improving.
  • (4) The collective critical moo-ing that greets the arrival of each new screen instalment of the Twilight series says more about how out of touch the film-reviewing fraternity is with a certain section of the movie-going audience than it does about the films themselves.
  • (5) The last Behaviour Modification Twilight workshop was the tipping point for her.
  • (6) A skating star in the twilight of his storied career and another who could go on to be just as impressive combined to put in top performances at the Iceberg Skating Palace on Sunday night and win Russia their first gold medal, to the delight of the watching Vladimir Putin.
  • (7) The vertebrate retina contains two kinds of visual cells: rods, responsible for twilight (scotopic) vision (black and white discrimination); and cones, responsible for daylight (photopic) vision (color discrimination).
  • (8) Sharon became prime minister in his twilight years on a pledge to stifle the Palestinian rebellion that began in September 2000.
  • (9) That the Occupy movement fizzled out because it didn’t have a leader … I hope this film will in some way help generate a leader who will pull young people together in a way which they will understand.” The Hunger Games, adapted from Suzanne Collins’ bestselling series, had already staked out more politically conscious territory than Harry Potter and Twilight, the teenage franchises that preceded it.
  • (10) Lyudmila's confirmation that she and her husband have split is the rarest thing in Moscow's twilight informational world: a genuine fact.
  • (11) I planned for it to take ten years for that to dissipate, so to get into Cannes the year that [Twilight] is finishing was fairly ridiculous."
  • (12) The former Manchester United striker, now playing in midfield, is also in the twilight of his career and his game has changed accordingly with Chris Burchall, whose first-half free-kick was tapped in by Stern John, expected to do his running.
  • (13) An unusual case of recurrent attacks of peculiar twilight state persisting for 41 years is the subject of this clinicopathological report.
  • (14) "I hated the idea of sliding into the twilight zone, going through the motions," he says.
  • (15) Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) You know that Twilight Zone where an astronaut returns to an alternate dimension?
  • (16) A high index of suspicion should prompt specific questioning about hemeralopia, or reduced visual function in brightly illuminated situations, and better vision in twilight or under dim illumination.
  • (17) Where, though, does a 37-year-old English winger in the twilight of his professional footballing career fit into this plan?
  • (18) Kristen Stewart has topped Forbes' annual list of the world's highest paid female film stars for the first time thanks to the financial success of the Twilight Saga.
  • (19) "We caught Twilight star Robert Pattinson's butt cleavage!!"
  • (20) "I've had a lot more fun watching and arguing about the Twilight movies than I ever had with the Star Wars saga, that lumbering, narratively hobbled space opera," he blasphemed recently .

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