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SUNSET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sunset" is a kind of...):
periodic event; recurrent event (an event that recurs at intervals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("sunset" is a kind of...):
atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon
Synonyms:
sundown; sunset
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("sunset" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Holonyms ("sunset" is a part of...):
eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))
Antonym:
sunrise (the first light of day)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Providing for termination
Example:
a program with a sunset provision
Classified under:
Similar:
last (coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of a declining industry or technology
Example:
sunset industries
Classified under:
Similar:
old (of long duration; not new)
Context examples:
On the surface of Kepler-186f, the brightness of its star at high noon is only as bright as our sun appears to us about an hour before sunset.
(Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone', NASA)
Every year during spring and fall migration, tens of millions of birds take flight at sunset and pass over our heads, unseen in the night sky.
(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)
There I remained until evening, when I set off for Woking again, and found myself in the high-road outside Briarbrae just after sunset.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There for many years in a happy and peaceful old age lived Jack Harrison and his wife, receiving back in the sunset of their lives the loving care which they had themselves bestowed.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Clusters of stars, such as the bright spot near the left side of the image, generate even more infrared light and illuminate the surrounding clouds like the Sun lighting up a cloudy sky at sunset.
(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)
Using Hubble, the team went looking for evidence of components, notably water, in the atmospheres of the planets, called Kepler-51 b and 51 d. Hubble observed the planets when they passed in front of their star, aiming to observe the infrared color of their sunsets.
('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)
From the afternoon of 6 January, a grey cloud and redder sunrises and sunsets could be seen in the sky in Uruguay due to the presence of small particles in suspension, more than 6,000 meters high, of smoke generated by the great fires in Australia, said a statement from the Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet).
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so dearly.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was noon when I awoke, and allured by the warmth of the sun, which shone brightly on the white ground, I determined to recommence my travels; and, depositing the remains of the peasant’s breakfast in a wallet I found, I proceeded across the fields for several hours, until at sunset I arrived at a village.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Just at sunset, the air turned cold and the sky cloudy: I went in, Sophie called me upstairs to look at my wedding-dress, which they had just brought; and under it in the box I found your present—the veil which, in your princely extravagance, you sent for from London: resolved, I suppose, since I would not have jewels, to cheat me into accepting something as costly.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
