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daylight Definition

day·light (dā′līt′)

noun

  1. the light of day; sunlight
  2. dawn; daybreak
  3. full understanding or knowledge of something hidden or obscure
  4. the approaching end of a task or an ordeal to see daylight ahead
  5. Slang the eyes
  6. Informal consciousness: often used hyperbolically, as in scare (or beat or knock, etc.) the daylights out of

daylight Synonyms

daylight

n.

daytime, daylight hours, sunlight, light of day; see day 2, morning 1, sunshine.

scare the daylights out of*, knock the daylights out of*

frighten, scare, beat; see beat 2, frighten 1, threaten 1.

daylight Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • maximize: The crystalline roof forms seek to maximize natural daylight and ventilation.
  • live: She didnt want to scare the living daylights out of me!
  • let: Instead of immediately reaching for the light switch, open a curtain or the blinds and let some daylight in.
  • see: Do they fit snugly or can you see daylight through the seals?
  • allow: The wings are oriented from East to West and are well spaced to allow daylight into the working areas.
  • supplement: Replacement Light as opposed to supplementary lighting where you supplement daylight, replacement light means no natural light is used at all.

Adjective modifier

  • broad: No time, to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
  • natural: The entrance to the hotel has a glass facade allowing lots of natural daylight into the lobby area.
  • diffuse: Script took every by diffuse daylight worthy of attention.
  • perpetual: We work on an 8 hours on, 16 hours off basis but the perpetual daylight has erased all sense of real time passing.
  • 24-hour: Antarctica is moving from 24-hour daylight to the 24-hour darkness of winter.
  • bright: In the city where bright daylight used to shine forth, the day darkened.

Modifies a noun

  • robbery: Felix: Yes Tom: Daylight robbery had some which were illegal.
  • raid: US air force began daylight raids on Berlin March 4, 1944.
  • saving: At present we do not support daylight savings only standard local times.
  • savings: If the second argument was 0, the standard name was used, other- wise the daylight savings time version.
  • hour: During daylight hours we will visit to assess the problem.
  • bombing: RAF launch two daylight bombing attacks on Berlin January 30, 1943.

Noun used with modifier

  • summer: With very long summer daylight hours, you have plenty of time to fit in your excursions.
  • hour: Late supper at 2300, not that it matters because we have 24 hours daylight.
daylight Quotes

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The people die so, that now it seems theyare fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be within at 9 at night, all (as they say) that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for ayre.

—Pepys, Samuel

Earth's axle creeks; the year jolts on; the trees begin to slip their brittle leaves, their flakes of rust; and darkness takes the edge off daylight, not because it wants toönever that. Because it must.

—Motion, Andrew

   I am a daylight atheist.

—Beethoven, Ludwig van

Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent† Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment: cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

—Addison,Joseph

I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of Daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it† Its mystery isits life.We must not let indaylight uponmagic.

—Bagehot,Walter

Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.

—Clough, Arthur Hugh

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