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LATE NIGHT

Specialty Definition: LATE NIGHT

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General

Evening on which the exhibition will remain open later than usual. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Late Night

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Late Night."

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Modern Usage: LATE NIGHT

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Screenplays

Name your cliche; Mother held him too much or not enough, last picked at kickball, late night sneaky uncle, whatever. (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Michael Rosenberg.)

All the dancing, singing, the late night parties the Ben Affleck splooge it has to stop. (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi)

And maybe you should leave that sassy but Sassoon look to the late night action adventure shows? (She Spies; writing credit: Ron Osborn; Josh Appelbaum)

Lyrics

And a all those late night promises (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith)

To some other guitar picker in some other late night place ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama)

In the club on the late night, feelin right (Ride Wit Me (Featuring City Spud); performing artist: Nelly)

No more late night creeps (No More; performing artist: Ruff Endz)

Late night phone calls on the telephone (Sweet Lady; performing artist: Tyrese)

Movie/TV Titles

Late Night Final (1954)

50 Years of NBC Late Night (2001)

Late Night Live (2000)

The Last Late Night (1999)

Late Night Poker (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: LATE NIGHT

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Books

  • Television Horror Movie Hosts: 68 Vampires, Mad Scientists and Other Denizens of the Late Night Airwaves Examined and Interviewed (reference)

  • Late Night Discussions on the Theory of Constraints (reference)

  • Late Night Netscape Ifc (reference)

  • Late Night With David Letterman: The Book (reference)

  • The Late Night With David Letterman Book of Top Ten Lists (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Johnny Carson - His Favorite Moments from The Tonight Show - '80s & '90s, The King of Late Night (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: LATE NIGHT

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The children had fallen by the way in the late night.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: LATE NIGHT

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Business

Other highlights at Bluewater include a 12-screen Hoyts cinema multiplex with stadium style seating, an evening lounge and numerous bars, outdoor boating and ice skating, cycling, indoor rock climbing and late night entertainment. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe

After the NCA took the ZBC to court in 2000, the judge ordered ZBC to carry the NCA's advertisements; the ZBC responded by carrying the advertisements in late night timeslots that had few listeners. (references)

Human Rights

Czech Republic

The case of a Brno city police officer charged with using excessive force to break up a late night party outside a theater in 1995 was awaiting a formal court decision at year's end. (references)

Travel

Saudi Arabia

Office hours are shortened and shifted to the evening, and people may be affected by the fasting and customary late night social gatherings. (references)

Worker Rights

Morocco

The girls report working from early morning to late night, often without a break, under conditions of physical or psychological abuse. (references)

Ireland

The law sets rest intervals and maximum working hours, prohibits the employment of 18-year-olds for late night work, and requires employers to keep specified records for workers who are under 18 years of age. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: LATE NIGHT

Expression using "LATE NIGHT": late night club. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LATE NIGHT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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111

carson daly late night

5

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109

humor late night

5

late night with conan o brien

64

late night television

5

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52

late night chat

5

late night page tv

33

city kansas late night theater

5

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33

late night shopping

4

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29

late night page

4

late night with conan obrien

29

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4

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28

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4

late night with conan o brian

21

club late night

4

late night talk show

20

late night radio

4

joke late night

18

late night rating show talk

4

eating late night

11

late night schedule tv

3

late night tip

10

healthy late night snacks

3

late night rating tv

8

late night restaurant

3

late night programming

8

interbridge late night

3

late night rating

7

late night poker

3

late night theater

7

brien conan late night o ticket

3

guest late night

7

host late night show talk

3

cinemax late night

6

late night ride

3

late night with conan obrian

6

63 back december in late night oh

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LATE NIGHT

Language Translations for "LATE NIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

aften-. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

late night. (various references)

   

French

  

nocturne. (various references)

   

German

  

Öffnung spätabends. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νυχτερινό ωράριο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

notturno (night, nocturnal, nocturnally, nocturne). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atelay ightnay

   

Portuguese

  

tarde da noite (late evening), nocturno (nocturnal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

horario nocturno, de madrugada, abierto hasta tarde. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LATE NIGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-n-t-t"

-1 letter: atheling, gnathite.

-2 letters: atingle, elating, gahnite, gantlet, gelatin, genital, halting, hatting, healing, heating, lathing, letting, lighten, tighten.

-3 letters: aiglet, alight, eating, entail, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, haeing, haling, halite, hantle, hating, ingate, inhale, latent, latten, lattin, length, ligate, linage, litten, talent, tangle, tenail, thenal, tineal, tingle.

-4 letters: agent, agile, aglet, algin, alien, align, aline.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-n-t-t"
 

+1 letter: alightment, ethylating.

 

+2 letters: alightments, glutathione, methylating.

 

+3 letters: glutathiones, hesitatingly, shatteringly, stringhalted, ultraheating.

 

+4 letters: lightfastness, thanatologies, threateningly.

 

+5 letters: antitechnology, breathtakingly, hemagglutinate, rehabilitating, unhesitatingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LATE NIGHT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 54 45      4E 49 47 48 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01010100 01000101 00100000 01001110 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#32 &#78 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0054 0045      004E 0049 0047 0048 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4635543924843414254

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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