What's the difference between sunset and twilight?

Sunset


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Sunsetting

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
  • (2) Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, raised concerns about the sunset clause.
  • (3) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
  • (4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
  • (5) The entry pattern was more uniform than the exit which showed two distinct peaks around sunset and after midnight.
  • (6) The speedboat drivers pay close attention to the water conditions on the strait and try to approach the Iranian coast just after sunset.
  • (7) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
  • (8) Reflecting on the possibilities for top-flight football in San Diego, Hejduk says: “Why don’t you build a stadium right where you can watch the sunset in the background and have fish tacos in the stadium?
  • (9) By sunset, around 2,000 had left voluntarily in 42 government buses for government-run camps, but thousands were still left in Idomeni overnight.
  • (10) I don’t want to start naming names of living American directors because I’ll leave someone out and they’re friends.” He does, however, observe that with the exception of the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men and The Sunset Limited , which he directed, Hollywood has bungled adapting the novels of his friend Cormac McCarthy.
  • (11) But Cameron agreed to a "sunset clause" time-limiting the bill to 2016, a full-scale review of intercept laws, a new oversight board and restrictions on the number of public bodies that can make use of surveillance data.
  • (12) Steel industry sources pay tribute to the support that successive governments have given in general terms to the industry through apprenticeships, innovation and science, but there is a lingering sense that steel is a sunset industry; like the smog above the plant, a pall of inevitable doom hangs over its future.
  • (13) When fed with a purified diet, however, both tartrazine and Sunset Yellow FCF at 5% level in the diet resulted in a marked retardation in growth, an unthrifty appearance of the fur and death of 50% or more of the rats within an experimental period of 14 days.
  • (14) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
  • (15) Sit with your feet in the sand around tables cleverly designed out of cable drums, watching the sunset and enjoying a cold Greek beer.
  • (16) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
  • (17) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
  • (18) The maximum frequency is observed during the dark phase, the peak values occurring just after sunset and before sunrise.
  • (19) White Sands national monument Sunset at White Sands national monument, New Mexico.
  • (20) Normally industrial action of this sort, especially in the UK, would have the likes of the Institute of Directors telling us the cost in millions before sunset.

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 .