What's the difference between daybreak and dusk?

Daybreak


Definition:

  • (n.) The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kate Garraway and Dan Lobb, currently part of the Daybreak team, could also see their roles boosted in the Daybreak reshuffle.
  • (2) It also emerged that the 48-hour strike had little impact on viewers: ITV's struggling Daybreak, fronted by Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles, only managed 800,000 viewers compared with BBC Breakfast's 1.3 million.
  • (3) Cameron told ITV1's Daybreak: "I wanted to do this during the Olympic Games.
  • (4) The health secretary told ITV1's Daybreak: "A lot of people are very worried about it.
  • (5) Brian Maddison from the group told ITV's Daybreak that one garage in Kent reported already selling out of fuel canisters: "That's the sort of bizarre behaviour that Francis Maude and the rest of the cabinet seem to have encouraged.
  • (6) So I think Scots should be very worried that the SNP are putting so much emphasis on oil and gas," he told ITV's Daybreak.
  • (7) Daybreak has not performed as we would have hoped."
  • (8) Discovery Park is also home to the Daybreak Star Cultural Center , a hub for Native American cultural gatherings in the Pacific Northwest.
  • (9) Kate Garraway and Dan Lobb, currently part of the Daybreak team, could also see their roles boosted in the Daybreak job shuffle.
  • (10) Speaking on ITV's Daybreak, Clegg accused the Tories of being pressurised into "flip-flopping" by Ukip's surge in popularity , which has seen it finish above the Conservatives in the recent Eastleigh and South Shields byelections.
  • (11) I. Gene complementation test became possible among families of a hereditary disease by this technique which was the daybreak of the genetic analyses of human hereditary diseases in laboratories.
  • (12) He told ITV's Daybreak on Monday: "I want my children, who are in primary school at the moment, to have the sort of curriculum that children in other countries have, which are doing better than our own.
  • (13) Earlier this week Holmes expressed his interest in the Daybreak role .
  • (14) Speaking to ITV's Daybreak, the assistant general secretary of Unite, Diana Holland, said: "Everybody involved on behalf of Unite, the trade union members, and the oil tanker drivers, is saying we want a negotiated settlement.
  • (15) Last year 89.5% of children referred to Daybreak FGC by social services found a safe home within their extended family.
  • (16) ITV executives will be pleased with the start, viewing is up about 200,000 on Daybreak before it was axed, but GMB still has some way to go to close the gap with arch-rival BBC.
  • (17) ITV had high hopes for Daybreak when it launched in a blaze of publicity following the high-profile defections of Chiles and Bleakley from the BBC.
  • (18) Sky News presenter Eamonn Holmes has admitted he would "like to be in the frame" for a presenting job on Daybreak , although ITV newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky has distanced herself from taking over as a co-host of the ITV1 breakfast show.
  • (19) Sir John may have hair that is more silvery than ever, and his sky-blue tie shines like the sun on a tropical sea at daybreak, but he still brings a powerful whiff of the past.
  • (20) In December, it unveiled news presenters Marc Edwards, a presenter on France 24 and EuroSport who also voiced Danny Boyle's London 2012 opening ceremony; Louise Scodie, a broadcaster and writer with credits including Marie Claire, the Jewish Chronicle and shopping channel bid-up.tv; Claudia Liza Armah, who has presented BBC3's 60 Seconds news update and BBC News Interactive; and Gavin Ramjaun, who has worked on ITV's This Morning and Daybreak as well as CBBC Newsround and BBC Sport.

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.