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- single word requests - Precise names for parts of a day - English . . .
"Good night" as noted by yourself means to have a good night's sleep, so "Good Evening" is used instead "Evening" lasts from after Afternoon(4 p m ) till after sunset, depending on where you live There is also "Dusk", which could be used for the time right after the sun goes beneath the horizon, and the sky is dim, but not dark
- prepositions - At night or In the night - English Language Usage . . .
"In the night" refers to a specific night - most native English speakers are likely to assume it happened during the most recent night, unless you tell them otherwise "At night" is more generic, and could refer to something that's happened, or will happen, on several occasions (see Weather Vane's comment)
- 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:
- How do people greet each other when in different time zones?
It has nothing to do with the dateline The relevance of that is whether someone else's time is ahead or behind yours, and, it is not necessarily as business meeting A younger person might call in the middle of the night so that a parent can talk in the day –
- Lunch vs. dinner vs. supper — times and meanings?
Dinner – refers to a meal at night (after evening, 7pm to 10 pm) The size of the meal has little relation to the name Though I'm sure that both Lunch and Dinner are fairly heavy Tea is definitely only light snacks (a clear relic of the British rule) Brunch is also increasingly used for a lazy combination of Breakfast and Lunch !
- 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
- word usage - 1 oclock in the morning OR 1 oclock at night? - English . . .
'Night' is defined as: "The period of time between 'Evening' and 'Dawn' " People tend to get confused at the difference between the terms 'DAY' and 'DATE' If it is Monday and it becomes 2 a m , since the light of the sun is no longer visible in the sky then that is the 'Night-of-the-previous-day", so it is 'Monday-Night'
- meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . .
The convention stems from the term itself Midnight comes from 'mid-night ' In conversation, the 'night' of which 'midnight' is in the middle, is considered the night of the date mentioned If you are referring to a deadline, this also will refer to the stroke of 12 after the evening of the same date Example: The paper is due by Friday at
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