Nite vs. Night — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Nite and Night
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Definitions
Nite
Night.
Night
Night (also described as night time or night-time or nighttime, unconventionally spelled as nite) is the period of ambient darkness from sunset to sunrise during each 24-hour day, when the Sun is below the horizon. The exact time when night begins and ends depends on the location and varies throughout the year, based on factors such as season and latitude.
Nite
Informal spelling of night
Night
The period between sunset and sunrise, especially the hours of darkness.
Night
This period considered as a unit of time
For two nights running.
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Night
This period considered from its conditions
A rainy night.
Night
The period between dusk and midnight of a given day
Either late Thursday night or early Friday morning.
Night
The period between evening and bedtime.
Night
This period considered from its activities
A night at the opera.
Night
This period set aside for a specific purpose
Parents' Night at school.
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Night
The period between bedtime and morning
Spent the night at a motel.
Night
One's sleep during this period
Had a restless night.
Night
Nightfall
Worked from morning to night.
Night
Darkness
Vanished into the night.
Night
A time or condition of gloom, obscurity, ignorance, or despair
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning" (F. Scott Fitzgerald).
Night
A time or condition marked by absence of moral or ethical values
"He never would have let us go untroubled into the night of private greed" (Anthony Lewis).
Night
Of or relating to the night
The night air.
Night
Intended for use at night
A night light.
Night
Working during the night
The night nurse.
Night
Active chiefly at night
Night prowlers.
Night
Occurring after dark
Night baseball.
Night
(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?
Night
The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
Night
A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
Night
(countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
A night on the town
Night
(countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
Night
(uncountable) Nightfall.
From noon till night
Night
(uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
The cat disappeared into the night.
Night
(uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
Night
A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
Night
Ellipsis of good night
Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!
Night
To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
Night
That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
Night
Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.
Night
Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
She closed her eyes in everlasting night.
Do not go gentle into that good nightRage, rage against the dying of the light.
Night
A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
So help me God, as I have watched the night,Ay, night by night, in studying good for England.
Night
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Night
The time between sunset and midnight;
He watched television every night
Night
The period spent sleeping;
I had a restless night
Night
The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit;
Three nights later he collapsed
Night
Darkness;
It vanished into the night
Night
A shortening of nightfall;
They worked from morning to night
Night
A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
Night
Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx