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EVENING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
Example:
he enjoyed the evening light across the lake
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("evening" is a kind of...):
day; daylight; daytime (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside)
Meronyms (parts of "evening"):
sundown; sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon)
crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight (the time of day immediately following sunset)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evening"):
guest night (an evening when members of a club or college can bring their friends as guests)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way
Example:
an evening at the opera
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("evening" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Holonyms ("evening" is a part of...):
dark; night; nighttime (the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A later concluding time period
Example:
it was the evening of the Roman Empire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("evening" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Domain usage:
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb even
Context examples:
From June 1 through July 15, researchers from across North America will fan out each evening across the Great Plains, where storms are more common at night than during the day.
(Scientists tackle mystery of thunderstorms that strike at night, NSF)
On Friday evening Dyn said a security company Flashpoint and a cloud services provider Akamai identified symptoms of malware Mirai participating in the attacks.
(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)
The men engaged in regular activities during the day and then returned to their private room each evening.
(Cool temperature alters human fat and metabolism, NIH)
On the other hand, the results also show that exercise in the evening increases energy expenditure in the hours after exercise.
(Morning, Evening Exercise Provides Different Health Benefits, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
“One could say that this planet gets rainy in the evening, except it rains iron,” says David Ehrenreich, a professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)
It was a pleasant evening indeed, and we voted that as a social function on Endeavour Island it had not yet been eclipsed.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A trip could be especially exciting and romantic over the weekend of March 7-8 when Venus and Uranus, the planet of surprise, will conjoin and set off pretty fireworks in the evening sky.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The men made snowshoes, hunted fresh meat for the larder, and in the long evenings played endless games of whist and pedro.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
When it grew towards evening, the master horse ordered a place for me to lodge in; it was but six yards from the house and separated from the stable of the Yahoos.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want your co-operation.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
