night

Значение (Английский)

Noun

1. The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
2. 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.
3. A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
4. An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
5. A day, or at least a night.
6. Nightfall.
7. Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
8. A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
9. (colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

Intj

Ellipsis of good night.

Verb

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

Произносится как (IPA)

/naɪt/

Этимология (Английский)

From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).
Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Dutch nacht (“night”), Low German Nacht (“night”), German Nacht (“night”), Danish nat (“night”), Swedish and Norwegian natt (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nótt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.

Предложения

Fly by night and you waste little time .

Летать ночью, и вы тратите немного времени.

We met Alexander and the bar and had a great time last night .

Мы встретили Александра и бар и прекрасно провели время прошлой ночью.

The following night , the boy appeared at the alchemist's tent with a horse .

На следующую ночь мальчик появился в палатке алхимика с лошадью.

By the next night , the German ships had withdrawn , and " Australia " returned to Rosyth .

К следующей ночью немецкие корабли ушли, и «Австралия» вернулась в Розит.

Trips peak Friday evenings for medallion cabs , and Saturday night for Green Taxis .

Поездки Пик в пятницу вечера для медальонов и субботний вечер для зеленых такси.