twilight zone
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body.
noun
Synonym of mesopelagic zone (“the part of the ocean where there is very minimal light, located below the photic epipelagic zone but above the aphotic bathypelagic zone.”).
verb
To put or place into an indeterminate position; to be in an ambiguous, undetermined, or improper context.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "As to this right, therefore, the people have expressly created a twilight zone, in which neither nation nor state can act."
- "They were interesting because they represented a sort of twilight zone separating the "old days" from modern times."
- "...the classification scheme related to goods which lay in a "twilight zone" between consumer goods and equipment or between inventory and farm products."
- "But is there not a twilight zone over which both Church and State put forth claims?"
- "Geographically speaking, the twilight zone encompasses those areas that lie between the central business district and the first ring of suburban shopping centers, many of which are comparatively obsolete."
- "Sometimes I think she's really a gym teacher twilight-zoned into the corridors of government. I'm always surprised to see that it's a gold, clipless Cross pen she's carrying and not a gym whistle."