daylight
IPA: dˈeɪɫaɪt
noun
- The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.
- A light source that simulates daylight.
- (countable, photometry) The intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum generated by the Sun under various conditions or by other light sources intended to simulate natural daylight.
- The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
- Daybreak.
- Exposure to public scrutiny.
- A clear, open space.
- (countable, machinery) The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.
- (figurative) Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
- The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.
verb
- To expose to daylight
- (architecture) To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
- To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
- (landscaping, civil engineering) To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
- (intransitive) To gain exposure to the open.
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Examples of "daylight" in Sentences
- The thing they fear the most is daylight.
- The sunshine bores the daylights out of me.
- Daylight found a tragic scene in the grisly slot.
- The photograph shows the accident scene in daylight.
- Tall arches open the porch to the outside and daylight.
- The building uses a modern sunshade to filter daylight.
- In winter the outside limits were fixed by the length of daylight.
- To fly with such a burden in daylight is simply to court disaster.
- It is now dawn, and the vampire begins to decompose in the daylight.
- He was instrumental in the passing of the Daylight Saving Act of 1917.
- The album was released on the heels of the popular Daylight Again album.
- The phrase "daylight robbery" is said to have emanated from this period.
- TBTAM said ... socks - Totally agree wy they can't make laptop screens visible in daylight is beyond me.
- I would have liked to see more information on the screen, how bright it is in daylight, what that resolution looks like on a 14″ and also battery life.
- "I ain't ben a-burnin 'daylight sence navigation closed; an' if they set up all night they won't be up early enough in the mornin 'to git ahead of Dave Harney -- even on a sugar proposition."
- In northern climates in the winter before the twentieth century people lived between the nocturnal dark and a dismal grey half-light which they called daylight, not seeing the sun often for weeks together.
- The Syrian government charged that eight civilians, including four children, died in what it described as a daylight attack on al Sukkari farm in eastern Syria by U.S. forces that flew across the border from Iraq in four helicopters.
- The Syrian government charged that eight civilians, including four children, died in what it described as a daylight attack on an al-Sukkari farm in eastern Syria by U.S. forces that flew across the border from Iraq in four helicopters.
- For him the abstract lived in the concrete, and the hidden motive of all he did was to bring what he called the daylight view of the world into ever greater evidence, that daylight view being this, that the whole universe in its different spans and wave-lengths, exclusions and envelopments, is everywhere alive and conscious.
- But when the best of the daylight is a dull gray, the long lines of the glen unbroken by anything but a shepherd's hut here and there at long intervals, and the road that could be seen winding through like a strip of ribbon all the way gave the fugitive a mingled sense of serenity and of that tingling, audible solitude and remoteness from all living aid or society which thrills every nerve.