What's the difference between dawn and twilight?

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.

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 .