Sekirov Dictionary

daylight

/ˈdeɪlaɪt/

noun 11
verb 6
forms 4
phrases 4

noun11

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the natural light of the sun during the hours between morning and evening
- In those days the entire factory was lit only by daylight and was closed at night.
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The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
- We should get home while it's still daylight.
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Daybreak.
- We had only two hours to work before daylight.
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(figurative) Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
- We completely agree. There's no daylight between us on the issue.
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(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.
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Exposure to public scrutiny.
- Budgeting a spy organization can't very well be done in daylight.
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A clear, open space.
- All small running backs instinctively run to daylight.
- He could barely see daylight through the complex clockwork.
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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.
The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.
A light source that simulates daylight.
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.

verb6

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To expose to daylight
- […] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable. — 1895
To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
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To gain exposure to the open.
- The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
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To moonlight (work a second, often illicit job) during the daytime.
- 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. — 1965

forms

daylighted · daylit · daylighting · daylights

Phrases with daylight

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