Difference between Taps and Lights-out

What is the difference between Taps and Lights-out?

Taps as a noun is a song played at the end of the day, and at military funerals. while Lights-out as a noun is the time at night at which artificial lights are to be turned off, a curfew or bedtime.

Taps

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A song played at the end of the day, and at military funerals. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To furnish with taps.

Lights-out

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The time at night at which artificial lights are to be turned off, a curfew or bedtime.The prescribed bedtime for persons living in a boarding school or staying in a hospital.

We hope you now know whether to use Taps or Lights-out in your sentence.

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