moonlight

IPA: mˈunɫaɪt

To work on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night.
(by extension) To engage in an activity other than what one is known for.
(by extension, of an inanimate object) To perform a secondary function substantially different from its supposed primary function, as in protein moonlighting.
(Britain, dated) To carry out undeclared work.

Examples of "moonlight" in Sentences

Parmenides of Elea postulated that moonlight is reflected sunlight.
We look at each other -- there's not much light, just moonlight from the window.
Rosy Hannah by moonlight is beauty's own self, and to be cut on wood is realy surprising.
I spent some time beginning a painting of some trees in moonlight that had been on my mind.
Reporting on a survey into the income and expenditure of young people in Guangzhou province, The China Daily spotlighted the term moonlight clan:
So often you get someone working at Pixar or someplace whose whole world, for awhile, is to make fur moving in moonlight; but you never actually meet these people.
Audiences may laugh as a post-coital scene, set amid the flowers in moonlight, soars into a Morricone-esque musical riff with a chorus of women's voices trilling non-verbal notes, the art house equivalent of Dimitri Tiomkin telling us how to feel.