What's the difference between cusk and dusk?

Cusk


Definition:

  • (n.) A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between these worlds, Cusk has crafted a work of beauty and wisdom.
  • (2) This is my story, Cusk says, allowing no other voices that might further illuminate.
  • (3) CD: I don't think Rachel Cusk's book is particularly confessional.
  • (4) It is difficult to see where Cusk's discontent comes from when, on the face of it, she has had the cushiest of lives.
  • (5) Cusk writes: "My husband believed that I had treated him monstrously.
  • (6) Ihave never actually handled a highly strung racehorse, but that is what interviewing Rachel Cusk brings to mind.
  • (7) Cusk makes you think differently and look differently, even if you don't agree with what she's saying.
  • (8) It's only slowly, and in recent years, that the voice of the mother has come out – the odd middlebrow novel of the kind Virago and Persephone rescue ( EM Delafield or Dorothy Whipple ) and more recently Margaret Drabble , Julie Myerson , Rachel Cusk .
  • (9) Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, by Rachel Cusk , is published on 1 March by Faber and Faber.
  • (10) "Cusk anatomises motherhood as Montaigne anatomised friendship or Robert Burton anatomised melancholy ...
  • (11) And Rachel Cusk's "Aftermath", a tantalising excerpt from her divorce memoir, which comes out next year.
  • (12) Rachel Cusk may have written "childbirth and motherhood are the anvil upon which sexual inequality was forged" but using personal experience is still controversial.
  • (13) They say "What shines in Rachel Cusk's writing is the precision of her observation... she can pinpoint something profound with the merest detail."
  • (14) He still had literary supporters, with DJ Taylor, Rachel Cusk and Anne Tyler all writing admiringly of his novels, but Read had become a more marginal artistic figure, and two years ago, after completing a new novel, the thrillerish The Death of a Pope , both his publisher and agent were concerned it was too Catholic and would not appeal to a wider readership.
  • (15) Few figures in contemporary British literature divide people like Rachel Cusk.
  • (16) • The Bradhsaw Variations by Rachel Cusk is published by Faber on 3 September at £15.99 and is available from the Observer bookshop .
  • (17) Rachel Cusk's Aftermath might help me, guide me, support me during times of marriage breakdown.
  • (18) However, Rachel Cusk is not one for counting her blessings.
  • (19) Whether she imputes that view to the solicitor or not, Cusk still wants it both ways: we're asked to imagine her ex as such a magnificent lawyer that he managed to make her feel as though she were conscripting him, when all along, they were working to his long-game.
  • (20) Cusk gazes at herself unblinkingly, and judges harshly what she sees.

Dusk


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  • (n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
  • (n.) A darkish color.
  • (v. t.) To make dusk.
  • (v. i.) To grow dusk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (2) Mosquito infection occurred primarily around dusk, the same period during which A. robustus and E. serrulatus were most abundant near the surface of the pond.
  • (3) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
  • (4) The time-related incidence of these cells entities--the appearance of "dusk" and "bright" cells at 5 min, transitory domination of "bright" cells and the nadir of "dusk" cells at 20 min, sporadic recognition of "bright" cells, lack of "dusk" cells at 45 min and the absence of both cell forms at 180 min--displayed that LP-reactive response promptly appeared and rapidly ceased.
  • (5) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
  • (6) Ten minutes' walk away is the wonderful Blaise Hamlet (open dawn until dusk).
  • (7) I shall never forget a cherry tree in Kyoto lit with braziers at dusk.
  • (8) (Nine-year-olds were discovered picking spring onions from dawn till dusk in freezing weather in Worcestershire last year.)
  • (9) Sixty-nine patients reported no symptoms of night blindness and 116 patients claimed no visual field changes; 90 stated that they saw better at dusk.
  • (10) Her most memorable film role to date has been dancing with a python in a state of undress in the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
  • (11) "Hegel once said wisdom was like an owl, and that it took flight only at dusk.
  • (12) The final picture shows Blackpool Tower at dusk with the seafront illuminations.
  • (13) Mighty Deer Stalker Tough 10km off-road (and very muddy) run in Peeblesshire, Scotland, which starts at dusk.
  • (14) As dusk fell across the city a motorcade of flashing lights and sirens escorted him to the airport, where he thanked his hosts and organisers and the vice-president, Joe Biden, escorted him to the plane.
  • (15) In Fourier's ideal world, one might kick off with gardening in the morning, try some politics, shift on to art around lunchtime, spend the afternoon teaching and wind things up with a go at chemistry at dusk.
  • (16) The city, one of the largest Kurdish bastions of resistance to Isis in northern Syria, was shaken by heavy shelling from the advancing militants at dusk on Friday, sending plumes of smoke skywards and more refugees scrambling across the border into Turkey .
  • (17) A reason for the higher amplitude variation of melatonin in the natural lighting conditions may be the gradual changes of illuminance at dawn and dusk.
  • (18) At dusk on 10 September last year, a few weeks after the juvenile birds had successfully left their nest, the 9.5g tag on Sky’s leg abruptly stopped transmitting.
  • (19) His offices released statements about meetings with cabinet ministers to discuss issues such as the availability of basic food items during Ramadan when Muslims feast on food after a day of dawn-to-dusk fasting.
  • (20) "Fabrice always wanted it to be dusk," said Jenna Thiam, who plays 19-year-old Léna, one of the twin girls at the centre of the drama.