Twilight vs. Dusk

Twilightnoun

The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

Twilightnoun

The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.

Twilightnoun

(astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.

Twilightnoun

Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.

Twilightadjective

Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.

Twilightverb

To illuminate faintly.

Twilightnoun

The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

Twilightnoun

faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.

Twilightadjective

Seen or done by twilight.

Twilightadjective

Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.

Twilightnoun

the time of day immediately following sunset;

Twilightnoun

the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

Twilightnoun

a condition of decline following successes;

Twilightadjective

lighted by or as if by twilight;

Twilight

Twilight on Earth is the illumination of the lower atmosphere when the Sun is not directly visible because it is below the horizon. Twilight is produced by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere, illuminating the lower atmosphere so that Earth's surface is neither completely lit nor completely dark.

Dusknoun

A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.

Dusknoun

A darkish colour.

Duskverb

(intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.

Duskverb

(transitive) To make dusk.

Duskadjective

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

Duskadjective

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

Dusknoun

Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.

Dusknoun

A darkish color.

Duskverb

To make dusk.

Duskverb

To grow dusk.

Dusknoun

the time of day immediately following sunset;

Dusk

Dusk occurs at the darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight after sunset and just before night. At predusk, during early to intermediate stages of twilight, enough light in the sky under clear conditions may occur to read outdoors without artificial illumination; however, at the end of civil twilight (when Earth rotates to a point at which the center of the Sun's disk is 6° below the local horizon), such lighting is required to read outside.