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SUNRISE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The daily event of the sun rising above the horizon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sunrise" is a kind of...):
periodic event; recurrent event (an event that recurs at intervals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily appearance of the sun
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("sunrise" is a kind of...):
atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The first light of day
Example:
they talked until morning
Synonyms:
aurora; break of day; break of the day; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; daybreak; dayspring; first light; morning; sunrise; sunup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("sunrise" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Antonym:
sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of an industry or technology; new and developing
Example:
high-technology sunrise industries
Classified under:
Similar:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
Context examples:
From the afternoon of 6 January, a grey cloud and redder sunrises and sunsets could be seen in the sky in Uruguay due to the presence of small particles in suspension, more than 6,000 meters high, of smoke generated by the great fires in Australia, said a statement from the Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet).
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sacksful of millet-seed on the grass; then she said: Tomorrow morning before sunrise these must be picked up, and not a single grain be wanting.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Van Helsing says that our chance will be to get on the boat between sunrise and sunset.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I thought of him now—in his room—watching the sunrise; hoping I should soon come to say I would stay with him and be his.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Sunrise this morning was anxiously looked for by us all.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I skirted fields, and hedges, and lanes till after sunrise.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We got to the Borgo Pass just after sunrise yesterday morning.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As I went one way, he went another, and I heard him in the yard, saying cheerfully—Mason got the start of you all this morning; he was gone before sunrise: I rose at four to see him off.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At sunrise the Count could appear in his own form.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The strong blast and the soft breeze; the rough and the halcyon day; the hours of sunrise and sunset; the moonlight and the clouded night, developed for me, in these regions, the same attraction as for them—wound round my faculties the same spell that entranced theirs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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