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DAYLIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Light during the daytime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("daylight" is a kind of...):
light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
Example:
it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("daylight" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "daylight"):
forenoon; morn; morning; morning time (the time period between dawn and noon)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daylight"):
afternoon (the part of the day between noon and evening)
midafternoon (the middle part of the afternoon)
eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))
Holonyms ("daylight" is a part of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb daylight
Context examples:
All of the planets are thought to be tidally locked to their star, which means they rotate once per orbit so that one side is constantly bathed in daylight.
(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)
There's not more than an hour of daylight left, but if you take your notebook you may be able to get some rough sketch of the place.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I rose from the thanksgiving—took a resolve—and lay down, unscared, enlightened—eager but for the daylight.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I will look into it—cost me what it may, I will look into it—and directly too—by daylight.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He would rather walk with me in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to be conspicuous.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At half-past seven next morning, in the first glimmer of daylight, I found him standing by my bedside in his dressing-gown.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When it was daylight, the girl bathed her face in a little rippling brook, and soon after they all started toward the Emerald City.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
As the last rays of daylight dwindled and disappeared, absolute blackness settled down on Treasure Island.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
On the contrary, when he saw more of Captain Wentworth, saw him repeatedly by daylight, and eyed him well, he was very much struck by his personal claims, and felt that his superiority of appearance might be not unfairly balanced against her superiority of rank; and all this, assisted by his well-sounding name, enabled Sir Walter at last to prepare his pen, with a very good grace, for the insertion of the marriage in the volume of honour.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Mice on a reduced calorie plan that ate only during their normal feeding/active cycle were the only ones among five groups to lose weight, despite consuming the same amount as another group fed during their rest time in daylight, according to the study at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
(Eating at 'Wrong Time' Affects Body Weight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
