Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Nighttime |
NighttimeAdjective1. Happening during or appropriate to the night; "nighttime attire"; "the cat's nighttime prowls". Noun1. The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nighttime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Night is the time when a location is facing away from the Sun, and thus dark. On Earth, it is night on just under half the planet at any time. (The atmosphere refracts sunlight in such a way that some of it reaches the ground even when the sun is below the horizon.) When it is night on one side of the planet, it is day on the other side. Because of the rotation of Earth about its axis, it is alternately day and night, which together form a 24-hour day. The nights are shorter in summer and longer in winter. At the fall and spring equinoxes, the day and night are the same length (a 1:1 ratio of day to night). The summer and winter solstices mark the shortest night and the longest night, respectively.The closer a location is to the North or South Pole, the larger the range of variation in the night's length. For example, in locations near the poles, equinoxes still occur with a day and night of equal length. However, after an equinox, the ratio of night to day changes more rapidly than in locations between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. In the Northern Hemisphere, Denmark has shorter nights in June than India has. In the Southern Hemisphere, Antarctica has longer nights in June than Chile has. The Northern and Southern Hemispheres of the world experience the same patterns of night length depending on their latitude, but the cycles are 6 months apart so that one hemisphere experiences long nights (winter) while the other experiences short nights (summer).
Near the poles there is every year a summer period in which it is day only, a winter period in which it is night only, and the rest of the year one day and night every 24 hours.
Throughout most of history, night was primarily a time of rest, because little work can be done in the dark. As artificial lighting has improved, night-time activity has increased and become a significant part of the economy in many places.
Even without artificial light, moonlight sometimes makes it possible to travel or work outdoors at night.
Night is often associated with danger, because bandits and dangerous animals can be concealed by darkness. The belief in magic often includes the idea that magic, or magicians, are more powerful at night. Similarly, vampires and werewolves are thought to be more active at night.
See also day, nocturnal, Olbers paradox
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Night."
Synonyms: NighttimeSynonyms: dark (n), night (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: daytime (adj), day (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nighttime |
| English words defined with "nighttime": Nightertale ♦ Owl train. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nighttime": day/night level ♦ HEAT STORM ♦ parafoveal vision ♦ SPORADIC E. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A place rich with all the strange beauty of your nighttime dreams (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) | |
Lyrics | Pushing the day into the nighttime (Mad About You; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle) Nighttime would find me in Rosa's cantina ("El Paso"; performing artist: Marty Robbins) Makes no difference where you are. Day or nighttime, you're like a shinin' star (Diamond Girl; performing artist: Seals & Crofts) In the cool, silent moments of the nighttime (Planets Of The Universe; performing artist: Stevie Nicks; writing credit: Stevie Nicks) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Nighttime operation of collecting thin sea ice cores for analysis. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Readying for nighttime surveillance of migrating moths, agricultural engineer Wayne Wolf (left) adjusts a radar dish. When initial moth flight is detected, meteorologist Ritchie Eyster will launch a constant-altitude tetroon. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |
 | Cape Blanco Lighthouse at nighttime. Credit: J. Brende. |  | Nighttime launch of Apollo 17. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
 |
| "Street scene at night, Stockho" by John Mason Commentary: "A nighttime street scene in Gamla Stan, the fabulous old section of Stockholm." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Cricket; cicada; grasshopper; nocturnal; nighttime; chirp; droning; humming; intensifying; growing; increasing . | | Cricket; cicada; grasshopper; nocturnal; nighttime. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Daytime naps are not a replacement for nighttime sleep. (references) | |
This approach has been shown to be helpful in reducing nighttime leg jerking. (references) | ||
Other treatments are usually aimed at protecting the eye from drying at nighttime. (references) | ||
Business | Seven out of every ten inhabitants believe they will be victims of crime during the year. For example, six out of every ten Argentines have mentioned that they have changed their habits due to increasing crime rates, such as restricting their nighttime movements, installing home alarms, contracting security guard services and even purchasing fire arms. According to the Ministry of Interior, safety and security issues are among the top priorities of the government. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ghana | Police roadblocks and car searches are a normal part of nighttime travel in larger cities. (references) |
Rwanda | Authorities generally prohibit nighttime meetings, although they have relaxed this restriction for religious groups. (references) | |
Uganda | Some local governments have restricted the hours of operations of religious organizations that are viewed as cults, for example, prohibiting nighttime prayer meetings. (references) | |
Human Rights | Papua New Guinea | The Government imposed a nighttime curfew in Port Moresby for the following 2 months. (references) |
Portugal | In July a PSP officer shot and killed Arturo Mendes Pereira during a nighttime operation against drug traffickers in suburban Lisbon. (references) | |
Political Economy | THAILAND | Nighttime and holiday employment of non-adults is prohibited. (references) |
Travel | Taiwan | A 20 percent nighttime surcharge is added between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. as well. (references) |
Ecuador | Since 1999, several U.S. government employees and private U.S. citizens have been victimized in the Mariscal Sucre district, prompting the U.S. Embassy to put certain bars off-limits and to declare a nighttime curfew in the area for its employees. (references) | |
Women | Saudi Arabia | Some women participate in Al-Mesyar (or "short daytime visit") marriages, or what are described as "weekend marriages," in which the women relinquish their legal rights to financial support and nighttime cohabitation. (references) |
Worker Rights | Kenya | The law limits the normal workweek to 52 hours, although nighttime employees may be employed for up to 60 hours per week. (references) |
Egypt | Overtime for hours worked beyond 36 per week is payable at the rate of 25 percent extra for daylight hours and 50 percent extra for nighttime hours. (references) | |
Vanuatu | The employment of children from 12 to 18 years of age is restricted by occupational category and conditions of labor, that is, restrictions on employment in the shipping industry and on nighttime employment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nighttime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nighttime" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nighttime": Arthritis Foundation Nighttime ♦ in the nighttime ♦ nighttime cooling ♦ Nighttime Pamprin. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "nighttime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | natë (dark, darkness, night). (various references) | |
Chinese | 夜間 . (various references) | |
Czech | noc (night, night time), noèní èas (night time). (various references) | |
Danish | natligt reservoir (nighttime reservoir, nocturnal reservoir), natlig variation (nighttime variation, nocturnal variation), natlig afkoeling (night cooling, nighttime cooling, nocturnal cooling), ozonværdi om natten (nighttime ozone value, nighttime value of ozone, nocturnal ozone value, nocturnal value of ozone), ozonprofil om natten (nighttime ozone profile, nighttime profile, nocturnal ozone profile, nocturnal profile). (various references) | |
Dutch | nachtozonprofiel (nighttime ozone profile, nighttime profile, nocturnal ozone profile, nocturnal profile), nachtelijke schommeling (nighttime variation, nocturnal variation), nachtelijke afkoeling (night cooling, nighttime cooling, nocturnal cooling), ozonnachtwaarde (nighttime ozone value, nighttime value of ozone, nocturnal ozone value, nocturnal value of ozone). (various references) | |
Finnish | yöajan varasto (nighttime reservoir, nocturnal reservoir), yöajan vaihtelu (nighttime variation, nocturnal variation), yöajan otsoniprofiili (nighttime ozone profile, nighttime profile, nocturnal ozone profile, nocturnal profile), yöajan otsoniarvo (nighttime ozone value, nighttime value of ozone, nocturnal ozone value, nocturnal value of ozone), yöajan jäähtyminen (night cooling, nighttime cooling, nocturnal cooling). (various references) | |
French | variation nocturne (nighttime variation), valeur nocturne d'ozone (nighttime ozone value, nighttime value of ozone), refroidissement nocturne (night cooling, nighttime cooling), réservoir nocturne (nighttime reservoir), profil nocturne d'ozone (nighttime ozone profile, nighttime profile), profil de répartition nocturne d'ozone (nighttime ozone profile, nighttime profile), courbe nocturne d'ozone (nighttime ozone profile, nighttime profile), courbe de répartition nocturne d'ozone (nighttime ozone profile, nighttime profile). (various references) | |
German | Nachtzeit (night time). (various references) | |
Greek | καμπύλη νυχτερινής κατανομής του όζοντος (nighttime ozone profile, nighttime profile, nocturnal ozone profile, nocturnal profile), νυκτερινή κατατομή όζοντος (nighttime ozone profile, nighttime profile, nocturnal ozone profile, nocturnal profile), νυκτερινή παγίδα (nighttime reservoir, nocturnal reservoir), νυκτερινή δεξαμενή (nighttime reservoir, nocturnal reservoir), νυκτερινή ψύξη (night cooling, nighttime cooling, nocturnal cooling), νυχτερινή μεταβολή (nighttime variation, nocturnal variation), νυχτερινή τιμή όζοντος (nighttime ozone value, nighttime value of ozone, nocturnal ozone value, nocturnal value of ozone). (various references) | |
Italian | ore notturne. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 夜間 (at night), 夜分 (evening, night). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | やぶん (evening, night), やかん (at night, kettle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ighttimenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | noite (evening). (various references) | |
Russian | ночь (night). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | noću (night: at night, nightly, nights), noćno doba (night time). (various references) | |
Spanish | variación nocturna (nighttime variation, nocturnal variation), valor nocturno del ozono (nighttime ozone value, nighttime value of ozone, nocturnal ozone value, nocturnal value of ozone), enfriamiento nocturno (night cooling, nighttime cooling, nocturnal cooling). (various references) | |
Swedish | nattetid (at night, night-time). (various references) | |
Turkish | gece vakti (night time). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nighttime": nighttimes. (additional references) | |
| |
"Nighttime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nahgettin, nightime, Nytim. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nighttime" (pronounced nī"ttī'm) |
| 3 | -t ī' m | airtime, anytime, bedtime, noontime, overtime, pastime, peacetime, ragtime, centime, daytime, dinnertime, downtime, flextime, halftime, lifetime, longtime, lunchtime, maritime, mealtime, meantime, schooltime, showtime, sometime, springtime, summertime, wartime, wintertime. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-i-m-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: emitting. | |
-2 letters: hitting, iteming, nightie, theming, tighten, tithing. | |
-3 letters: gittin, hieing, ignite, intime, meting, mitten, tieing, timing, titmen. | |
-4 letters: eight, genii, hemin, hinge, imine, might, neigh, night, tenth, thegn, thein, thine, thing, tight, tinge, tithe. | |
-5 letters: emit, gent, gien, hent, hint, inti, item, meth, mien, mine, mini, mint, mite, mitt, nett, nigh, nite, tent, teth. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-i-m-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: nighttimes. | |
+3 letters: hemstitching. | |
+4 letters: mathematizing. | |
+5 letters: anathematizing, extinguishment, thymectomizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
