sunlight 
sun·light (-līt′)
noun
the light of the sun
Converse of subject
- illuminate: Illuminated by sunlight, the prints are transparent enough to see through to the outside urban surroundings.
Converse of object
- dapple: The dappled sunlight on the steep mountain path gave a lovely cool light by which we descended to the little woodsman hut.
- absorb: Apart from absorbing sunlight, how else can we increase our daily intake of vitamin D?
- reflect: In addition, aluminum flakes were added to the covering material to help reflect sunlight to keep the gas bags cool.
- diffuse: Diffuse the sunlight, do not block it out.
- convert: During the day, the solar panel converts sunlight into energy, which is stored in the rechargeable batteries.
- scatter: In our Solar System the remaining dust scatters sunlight to create an extremely faint glow called the zodiacal light.
Adjective modifier
- bright: The city looked cheerful in the bright sunlight, the streets lined with trees, with little garden patches between them.
- direct: For example, exposure to direct sunlight can cause honey to soften or melt.
- fading: The ' old ' is emphasized by the imagery of the second line, the fading sunlight and autumnal crunch of leaves.
- intense: The systems must have a high output to overcome intense sunlight.
- strong: Protect from strong sunlight by covering with sacking or similar material.
- pale: Polished instruments gleam in the pale sunlight of the May Fair.
Modifies a noun
- exposure: In fact, sunlight exposure is essential to good health.
- penetration: Building mass includes heights, views, form and texture, sunlight penetration, building and open space relationship, and ground floor uses.
Noun used with modifier
- blinding: A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.
- afternoon: In the afternoon sunlight we walked to the greatest temple of them all, Angkor Wat.
- morning: The deep yellow rays of the morning sunlight streamed through the floral blinds making shadows like prison bars on the dusty carpet.
- evening: Adjoining Anne Boleyn's room, is west facing, and catches all the evening sunlight.
- winter: Stark winter sunlight, not too much wind, no thunder or lightning, no miasma of the plague.
Come, let us here enjoy the shade; For love in shadow best is made. Though envy oft his shadow be, None brooks the sunlight worse than he.
The love of our neighbour is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescence out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our own nostrils, instead of issuing to the fair sunlight of God, the sweet winds of the universe.
The sunlight falls across the country, lighting up the greenstone years of a boy with his father.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
The Master: records prove the title good: Yet figures fail you, for they cannot say How many men whose names you never knew Are proud to tell their sons they saw you play. They share the sunlight of your summer day Of thirty years; and they, with you, recall How, through those well-wrought centuries, your hand Reshaped the history of bat and ball.
Come to me in the silence of the night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream; Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright As sunlight on a stream; Come back in tears, O memory, hope, love of finished years.
we flounder, the air ungainly in our new lungs with sunlight streaming merciless on the shores of morning
When you meet Mr. Smith first you think he looks like an over-dressed pirate. Then you begin to think him a character.You wonder at his enormous bulk. Then the utter hopelessness of knowing what Smith is thinking by merely looking at his features gets on your mind and makes the Mona Lisa seem an open book and the ordinary human countenance as superficial as a puddle in the sunlight.
The tall, impossibly tall, incomparably tall, city shoulderingly upwards into hard sunlight leaned a little through the octaves of its parallel edges, leaningly strode upwards into firm, hard, snowy sunlight; the noises of America nearingly throbbed with smokes and hurrying dots which are men and which are women and which are things new and curious and hard and strange and vibrant and immense, lifting with a great ondulous stride firmly into immortal sunlight
Stand on the highest pavement of the stairö Lean on a garden urnö Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
Tonight we sleep On the banks of Rubiconöthe die is cast; There will be time to audit The accounts later, there will be sunlight later And the equation will come out at last.
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