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Meaning of nightward | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Toward night.
    not-comparable
  2. Toward the nightside of a planet.
    not-comparable

Examples

“Yet, that you may see I am something suspicious of myself, and do take note of a certain belatedness in me, I am the bolder to sen you some of my nightward thoughts sometime since.”
“Perhaps, as if clouds that had parted, sending a sunbeam across from the west upon the dark sorrow of the morning, had shut again, inexorably, leaving him still to tread the nightward path under the old, leaden sky.”
“What of the day could turn their nightward eyes?”
“Though twilight balms the west, my fears see something brutal in that nightward star.”
“The nightward shift of daily times for dinner (i.e., the main, “midday” meal), supper, and sleep by social class is underscored by the view from Napoleon's Paris:”
“nightward flow”
“nightward ion flow”
“Nightward ion flow was greatly reduced at solar minimum .”
“The near equality of the estimates for the nightward ion flux and nightside recombination rate would seem to indicate that electron precipitation does not play a major role in ion production.”
“This made nightward transport a more likely source of the nightside ionosphere, at least at solar maximum.”
“And I have seen the frozen, giant-builded battlements of Uogam on the glacial tundras of the nightward hemisphere of Venus.”
“If the lights were off inside the ship, and we were pointed nightward, you could see the stars, but there was always a barrier.”
“The shadows had begun to overflow Their stagnant puddles on the nightward side, When presently the roar of battle died”
““I thought we might take a look at the dens on the nightward edge of the cliffs,” Salva said, flipping playfully in the air like a gull, her wing fully healed from the blackfish's attack.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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