At Night or In the Night? - English Language & Usage Stack …
Mar 13, 2015 · The same with in the night, if someone said that you would think of any time between the hours of 8pm and 6am, or thereabouts. However, at night generally means the …
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 …
What's 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 …
prepositions - At night or In the night - English Language & Usage ...
Aug 22, 2020 · "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 …
differences - Evening and night in English - English Language
Apr 26, 2020 · night - starting roughly 7pm and lasting till roughly 4am maybe 5am the next morning. Note that these are vaguely independent on the individual's meal and bedtime, but …
Is the expression "yesterday afternoon" correct?
Jun 15, 2020 · The show closes next Wednesday night. The package arrived on Christmas morning. are quite common. For night, it is more customary to say last night rather than …
How do people greet each other when in different time zones?
Mar 27, 2020 · 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 …
What is an appropriate greeting to use at night time?
Jan 21, 2013 · "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 …
Is there a term for the period between midnight and sunrise?
@Mitch On a related note, the OED entry for “small hours” gives “the early hours after midnight denoted by the small numbers, one, two, etc.” Interestingly, the 1st citation is from Charles …
"Lunch" vs. "dinner" vs. "supper" — times and meanings?
Apr 24, 2011 · 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 …