daylight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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”).
Compound parts: day
light
Inflected forms:
form: daylights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: day-light
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: daylights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: daylighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: daylighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: daylighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: daylit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: daylit
pos: verb
tags: past
form: day-light
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either sunny days or cloudy days).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronym: sunbeams
Near-synonyms: sunlight, sunshine
In those days the entire factory was lit only by daylight and was closed at night.
gloss: A light source that simulates daylight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: burning daylight
wasting daylight
We should get home while it's still daylight.
gloss: Daybreak.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We had only two hours to work before daylight.
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.
gloss: Exposure to public scrutiny.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Budgeting a spy organization can't very well be done in daylight.
gloss: A clear, open space.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All small running backs instinctively run to daylight.
He could barely see daylight through the complex clockwork.
Finally, after weeks of work on the project, they could see daylight.
gloss: The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The minimum and maximum daylights on an injection molding machine determines the sizes of the items it can make.
gloss: Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: We completely agree. There's no daylight between us on the issue.
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.
gloss: Meaningful or noticeable difference or distinction between two things, especially concepts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: There's not much daylight between saying that the universe is God and saying that God doesn't exist.
gloss: The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To expose to daylight
pos: verb
examples: […] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.
[…] she was not looking at the daylit, sunny world which she so wanted to see.
gloss: To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
pos: verb
gloss: To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
pos: verb
gloss: To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
pos: verb
gloss: To gain exposure to the open.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
Tunnels were enlarged or daylighted and clearances generally greatly improved.
gloss: To moonlight (work a second, often illicit job) during the daytime.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But I find that we have a large number of service wives who are daylighting. Some of them are not only working in the evening, but also during the day.
Antonyms: night
darkness
Related words: dawn
sunrise
sunset
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: välys