(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.
Musk
Definition:
(n.) A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor.
(n.) The musk deer. See Musk deer (below).
(n.) The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar.
(n.) The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).
(n.) A plant of the genus Erodium (E. moschatum); -- called also musky heron's-bill.
(n.) A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
(v. t.) To perfume with musk.
Example Sentences:
(1) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(2) Musk revealed his love for Kerbal Space Program in a Q&A in Reddit , joking (or maybe not?)
(3) Musk declared the spacecraft a big leap forward in technology.
(4) Musk shrews (Suncus murinus) were maintained for 8 weeks in long (16 h light:8 h darkness) or short (8 h light:16 h darkness) daylengths.
(5) Mating experiments indicated that the kinky-coat character is controlled by a single autosomal recessive gene designated kc (kinky coat), which is not allelic to the gene ch (curly hair) previously reported in the Tr strain derived from wild musk shrews on Taramajima Island, Japan.
(6) Successful photosensitization was achieved only when the nuchal skin was stripped with scotch tape before application of musk ambrette and ultraviolet radiation.
(7) The company’s exuberant chief operating officer, Bibop Gresta (who also takes the title “chief bibop officer”) listed all the ways his plan built on Musk’s.
(8) Chaffin’s sources say that, even as Elon Musk’s electronic car firm Tesla Motors is stealing away record numbers of employees from Apple , the house the Steves built is hiring Tesla employees right back – and specifically, “the kind of people from Tesla with expertise that is most suited to cars”.
(9) Musk said the software was progressing, but that he had run into difficulties on the road in California.
(10) The histochemical study of the Ear of female Suncus murinus (Indian musk shrew) was studied by the use of the cholinesterase technique.
(11) A substantial improvement in the rate of detection of organic lesions affecting the olfactory pathway can be achieved by substituting odours such as musk ketone, exaltolide, linalyl acetate and coumarin for those in current use.
(12) Speaking in at an event in San Francisco , Musk, who is expected to unveil the new Tesla D car later on Thursday, rejected the idea.
(13) 1, the time course for the photoperiodic response in juvenile male musk shrews was examined by exposing animals to short (10L:14D) or long (14L:10D or 18L:6D) daylengths for 10, 20, 40 or 56 days.
(14) Trump may have missed Dimon’s buried critique, but he won’t have missed Dimon’s signature alongside fellow councilmembers Musk and Iger, who joined a total of 30 other business leaders in sending a letter to the president that begins: “We are writing to express our strong support for the United States remaining in the Paris climate agreement.” “Based on our vast experience doing business all over the world, we believe there is strong potential for negative trade implications if the United States exits from the Paris agreement,” they wrote.
(15) The most frequent positive reactions were to chlorpromazine (13 patients), musk ambrette (nine patients), and promethazine (eight patients).
(16) Musk said last month that the Model 3 would be unveiled next spring, with production to begin in 2017.
(17) Only ACB produced classical musk-like UAO (UAO + ve) in an in vitro odour-producing system with 29% being UAO -ve.
(18) Genetically conditioned polymorphism of alpha-amylases in musk ducks, domestic ones and their hybrids has been described.
(19) Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson's objections Read more Elon Musk’s Tesla has shown that electric vehicles are viable for a business with its Roadster and then Model S , which recently gained a faster dual-motor version with an “insane mode” which reaches 60 miles per hour in under 3.2 seconds.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk introduces the Model X.