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- At Night or In the Night? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The same with in the night, if someone said that you would think of any time between the hours of 8pm and 6am, or thereabouts However, at night generally means the specific time between when night begins and when you go to sleep, let's say between 8pm and 10pm It's similar with other specific times of day, such as at midnight or at noon
- What is an appropriate greeting to use at night time?
"Good night" as a greeting was once a feature found almost exclusively in Ireland In James Joyce's "The Dead", for example, it is used both as greeting: —O, Mr Conroy, said Lily to Gabriel when she opened the door for him, Miss Kate and Miss Julia thought you were never coming Good night, Mrs Conroy And as a farewell:
- Is Night an acceptable informal variant of Good Night?
The spoken use of "night" as an informal, familiar version of "good night" (wishing one a restful sleep) is common, but I'm not sure what the proper written equivalent is - if there is one I have always used 'Night with an apostrophe, usually capitalized: 'Night, Caroline!
- Whats the difference between “by night” and “at night”?
"The tiger hunts by night" sounds more dramatic than "The tiger hunts at night " Consider the title of the following film: They Drive by Night, which is a hyped-up way of presenting a movie about truck drivers who are trying to survive in their tough world Had the film been called "They Drive at Night" it would have sounded pretty ho-hum
- prepositions - On this night vs In this night - English Language . . .
"Night of wonder" and "all aglow" suggests a poetic or literary slant to the text, which means the usage suggested above is a lot more fluid and in could be used instead of on (but probably not the other way round)
- What is the category name to describe day, night, or dusk?
Meaning "one of the 24 equal parts of a natural solar day (time from one sunrise to the next), equal hour; definite time of day or night reckoned in equal hours," and that of "one of the 12 equal parts of an artificial day (sunrise to sunset) or night, varying in duration according to the season; definite time of day or night reckoned in
- Late Night vs Early Morning [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
Night I would say sunset to sunrise, again in northern latitudes, probably, averaged out to about 18:00 until 06:00 An early morning would be waking up before 06:00, a late night would be going home after 06:00 (a late night usually means you have been out with your friends enjoying yourself - rather than simply going to bed later than is
- nouns - Can nighttime be used instead of night-time? - English . . .
Whereas a night-time visit, for example, is an adjectival usage And there's a tendency (not a "rule") to use hyphens more often in compound adjectives, as is clearly reflected by the usage charts And there's a tendency (not a "rule") to use hyphens more often in compound adjectives, as is clearly reflected by the usage charts
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