daylight
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See also: day-light
Alternative forms
- 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”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdeɪlaɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: day‧light
Noun
daylight (countable and uncountable, plural daylights)
- 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.
- We should get home while it's still daylight.
- Daybreak.
- We had only two hours to work before daylight.
- 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:
- 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.
- Exposure to public scrutiny.
- Budgeting a spy organization can't very well be done in daylight.
- A clear, open space.
- 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.
- (countable, machinery) The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.
- The minimum and maximum daylights on an injection molding machine determines the sizes of the items it can make.
- (figurative) Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
- We completely agree. There's no daylight between us on the issue.
- 2023 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “What Fox News Says When You’re Not Listening”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- 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.
- (figurative) Meaningful or noticeable difference or distinction between two things, especially concepts.
- There's not much daylight between saying that the universe is God and saying that God doesn't exist.
- The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.
- Coordinate term: heeltap
Synonyms
- (light from the Sun): sunlight, sunshine
- (period between sunrise and sunset): daytime; see also Thesaurus:daytime
- (daybreak): dayspring, sunrise; see also Thesaurus:dawn
Antonyms
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
- see daylight
Translations
light from the Sun
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light source that simulates daylight
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photometry: natural daylight's intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum
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period of time between sunrise and sunset
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daybreak — see daybreak
machinery: space between
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References
- (gap between glass and drink): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Verb
daylight (third-person singular simple present daylights, present participle daylighting, simple past and past participle daylighted or daylit)
- To expose to daylight
- 1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 7”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:
- […] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.
- 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
- […] she was not looking at the daylit, sunny world which she so wanted to see.
- (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.
- The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
- 1964 October, “Letters: A US lesson in high-capacity freight stock”, in Modern Railways, page 233:
- Tunnels were enlarged or daylighted and clearances generally greatly improved.
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