Night-long

Definition

night /naÇt/ n [C,U] ၁။ (က) ည။ He phoned me up at 11 o'clock at night. ❍ The fire started on Saturday night. ❍ These animals only come out at night. ❍ She was ill in the night. ❍ We sat up all night (long) talking. ❍ We spent the night with friends in London. ❍ The same noise was heard night after night (ie every night). ❍ Night fell (ie It became dark). (ခ) ည။ We watched television last night. ❍ What shall we do on Friday night? ၂။ …ည။ the first/ last night of a play. ❏ an early/ a late night [ IDM ] ေစာေစာ/ ေနာက္က်ၿပီး အိပ္ရာဝင္ခ်ိန္။ You've been having too many late nights recently. ❏ have a good/ bad night [ IDM ] ေကာင္းေကာင္း အိပ္ရ သည္/ မအိပ္ရ။ ❏ make a night of it [ IDM ] (ပါတီ စသည္၌) တစ္ညလံုး အခ်ိန္ျဖဳန္းသည္။ ❏ night and day/ day and night [ IDM ] ေန႔ေရာညပါ။ တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုး။ machines kept running night and day. ❏ nightie n ( infml ) = NIGHTDRESS ❏ night-life n [U] ညပြဲလမ္းသဘင္။ There's not much night-life here. ❏ night-light n ညလံုးေပါက္ အိပ္ခန္းမီးမိွန္။ ❏ night-long adj , adv တစ္ညလံုး။ ညလံုးေပါက္။ ။ engage in night-long discussions. ❏ nightly adj, adv ညစဥ္ညတိုင္း။ the nightly bombardment ❍ The film is on twice nightly. ❏ night night [ IDM ] (အိပ္ရာဝင္ ကေလးႏႈတ္ဆက္စကား)။ ‘Night night, sleep tight!’ ❏ a night out [ IDM ] ညထြက္လည္ျခင္း။ I enjoy an occasional night out at the theatre. ❏ nights adv ( esp US ) ညည။ I can't sleep nights. ❍ He works nights. ❏ night safe n ဘဏ္ပိတ္ခ်ိန္၌ ေငြ၊ ပစၥည္း ထည့္သိမ္းထား ႏိုင္သည့္ (ဘဏ္အျပင္နံရံရိွ) အာမခံေသတၱာ။ ❏ night school n [U,C] ညေက်ာင္း။ learn Japanese at night school ❍ go to night school on Tuesdays. ❏ night-time n ညအခ်ိန္။ အကာလညအခါ။ It's pretty noisy at night-time. ❍ night-time fears. ❏ night-watchman /-mǝn/ n ( pl -men /-mǝn/) ညေစာင့္။ ဒရဝမ္။

Examples

1. It was a lovely starlit night.
2. [all night long] : It rained all night (long).
3. [at night] : The parties usually take place at night.
4. [by night] : Owls hunt by night.
5. I woke up in the middle of the night.
6. [spend the night] : He spent the night in prison.
7. Phil is working nights this week.
8. Most nights Jan helps the kids with their homework.
9. [last/yesterday night] : Did you watch the football on TV last night?
10. [last thing at night] : I usually drink tea last thing at night (=just before I go to bed).
11. [the other night] : I went round to see her the other night.
12. Midsummer night
13. The next quiz night is on Thursday 19 May.
14. We’re looking forward to a night at the pub.
15. The opening night of Julius Caesar
16. The last night of the proms
17. Night
18. then! See you tomorrow!
19. The dark night of the soul