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Night vs. Nocturnal — What's the Difference?

Night vs. Nocturnal — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Night and Nocturnal

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Night

Night (also described as night time or night-time or nighttime, unconventionally spelled as nite) is the period of ambient darkness from sunset to sunrise during each 24-hour day, when the Sun is below the horizon. The exact time when night begins and ends depends on the location and varies throughout the year, based on factors such as season and latitude.

Nocturnal

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
Nocturnal stillness.

Night

The period between sunset and sunrise, especially the hours of darkness.

Nocturnal

(Botany) Opening at night. Used of flowers.

Night

This period considered as a unit of time
For two nights running.
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Nocturnal

(Zoology) Most active at night
Nocturnal lizards.

Night

This period considered from its conditions
A rainy night.

Nocturnal

(of a person, creature, group, or species) Primarily active during the night.
Nocturnal birds

Night

The period between dusk and midnight of a given day
Either late Thursday night or early Friday morning.

Nocturnal

(of an occurrence) Taking place at night, nightly.
A suspicious nocturnal outing

Night

The period between evening and bedtime.

Nocturnal

A person or creature that is active at night.

Night

This period considered from its activities
A night at the opera.

Nocturnal

(historical) A device for telling the time at night, rather like a sundial but read according to the stars.
Star clock

Night

This period set aside for a specific purpose
Parents' Night at school.

Nocturnal

Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; - opposed to diurnal.

Night

The period between bedtime and morning
Spent the night at a motel.

Nocturnal

Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects; raccoons are nocturnal.; - of animals.

Night

One's sleep during this period
Had a restless night.

Nocturnal

An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the stars, etc., at sea.

Night

Nightfall
Worked from morning to night.

Nocturnal

Belonging to or active during the night;
Nocturnal animals are active at night
Nocturnal plants have flowers that open at night and close by day

Night

Darkness
Vanished into the night.

Nocturnal

Of or relating to or occurring in the night;
Nocturnal darkness

Night

A time or condition of gloom, obscurity, ignorance, or despair
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning" (F. Scott Fitzgerald).

Nocturnal

Of or during or relating to the night;
A nocturnal journey
Nocturnal stillness
Nocturnal predators

Night

A time or condition marked by absence of moral or ethical values
"He never would have let us go untroubled into the night of private greed" (Anthony Lewis).

Night

Of or relating to the night
The night air.

Night

Intended for use at night
A night light.

Night

Working during the night
The night nurse.

Night

Active chiefly at night
Night prowlers.

Night

Occurring after dark
Night baseball.

Night

(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?

Night

The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.

Night

A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.

Night

(countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
A night on the town

Night

(countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
I stayed my friend's house for three nights.

Night

(uncountable) Nightfall.
From noon till night

Night

(uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
The cat disappeared into the night.

Night

(uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.

Night

A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

Night

Ellipsis of good night
Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!

Night

To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

Night

That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.

Night

Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.

Night

Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
She closed her eyes in everlasting night.
Do not go gentle into that good nightRage, rage against the dying of the light.

Night

A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
So help me God, as I have watched the night,Ay, night by night, in studying good for England.

Night

The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

Night

The time between sunset and midnight;
He watched television every night

Night

The period spent sleeping;
I had a restless night

Night

The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit;
Three nights later he collapsed

Night

Darkness;
It vanished into the night

Night

A shortening of nightfall;
They worked from morning to night

Night

A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

Night

Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx

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