daylight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪlaɪt/
ipa: /ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: daylights
form: day-light
Etymology: From Middle English daye-lighte, dey liȝht, dailiȝt, day-liht, dai-liht (also as days lyȝt, daies liht), equivalent to day + light. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deegeslucht, Daisljoacht (“daylight”), West Frisian deiljocht (“daylight”), Dutch daglicht (“daylight”), German Tageslicht (“daylight”).
Senses: glosses: The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.
glosses: A light source that simulates daylight.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: We should get home while it's still daylight.
glosses: The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
examples: text: We had only two hours to work before daylight.
text: Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
ref: 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pages 284–5:
glosses: Daybreak.
examples: text: Budgeting a spy organization can't very well be done in daylight.
glosses: Exposure to public scrutiny.
examples: text: All small running backs instinctively run to daylight.
text: He could barely see daylight through the complex clockwork.
text: Finally, after weeks of work on the project, they could see daylight.
glosses: A clear, open space.
examples: text: The minimum and maximum daylights on an injection molding machine determines the sizes of the items it can make.
qualifier: machinery
glosses: The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.
examples: text: We completely agree. There's no daylight between us on the issue.
text: Sometimes hosts are a little saltier when the cameras aren’t rolling, but I don’t recall ever hearing any daylight between the views they express on-air and off.
ref: 2023 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “What Fox News Says When You’re Not Listening”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
examples: text: There's not much daylight between saying that the universe is God and saying that God doesn't exist.
glosses: Meaningful or noticeable difference or distinction between two things, especially concepts.
coordinate_terms: heeltap
glosses: The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.
Synonyms: sense: light from the Sun
word: sunlight
sense: light from the Sun
word: sunshine
sense: period between sunrise and sunset
word: daytime
word: daytime
sense: daybreak
word: dayspring
word: sunrise
word: dawn
Derived terms: beat the daylight out of
broad daylight
burn daylight
create daylight between oneself and someone
daylight factory
daylight overdraft
daylight robbery
daylight saving
daylight savings
daylight-savings time
daylight savings time
daylight saving time
daylight-saving time
daylight standard time
daylight time
in broad daylight
knock the daylight out of
multidaylight
open daylight
predaylight
put daylight between oneself and someone