DAYLIGHT


Meaning of DAYLIGHT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

daylight saving time

scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of sb (= scare someone very much )

The alarm scared the hell out of me.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

natural

Good natural daylight and attractive views are less important but should certainly be taken into consideration.

If possible, natural daylight should be given.

There are three main sources of light, the first of which is the sun which provides natural daylight .

Plants need to photosynthesise in order to grow. Natural daylight is not enough to allow for this process.

Work in natural daylight if possible or under a soft lamp or candlelight.

You start off learning about it by studying natural light, daylight .

Moreover, he only works on one picture at a time and only by natural daylight .

■ NOUN

hours

If it is injured or sick it may sit quietly in an unusually visible position during daylight hours .

In the summer I do more daylight hours on the medical end.

And during daylight hours Jean-Claude told me he used to sit concealed in the hollow in front of the cave.

Also the relative positions of the sun and moon through the daylight hours should be similarly mapped.

Nor will the spider give away the presence of her home during daylight hours .

For the entire month, families abstain from eating and drinking during daylight hours in an act of sacrifice and purification.

He can do his gallivanting in the daylight hours with or without milk bottles.

Montana will have no speed limit during daylight hours .

■ VERB

put

But a very well worked try by New Zealand winger Ritchie Stevens just before the interval put daylight between the teams.

see

You can walk for hours and never see daylight , under the Paris Opera House.

At the height of the Maine summer; when dawn came early, the town did not see the daylight .

She was very ill for a while, and since then has not seen daylight .

But none of those projects saw daylight .

I could see daylight through a keyhole.

For eight days on end, beat officers, half the rank-and-file establishment, saw little daylight .

We are driving through parts of Brixton that look like they've never seen daylight .

She pounded after him desperately; she could still see him, though daylight had all but died.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

in broad daylight

A woman was attacked in broad daylight, right in front of our office.

He gunned down a man in broad daylight and got away.

The attack happened in broad daylight, in one of the busiest parts of town.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I'd like to look at the house again in daylight .

Poinsettia plants need a lot of daylight to keep healthy.

The park is open during daylight hours.

The robberies usually occur during daylight hours.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

By daylight the fire was almost under control.

He enjoyed the dance, and, returning with his Confederate escort, was safely landed in his own lines before daylight .

Noreen quickly took her from Jock and with her brothers beside her ran through the porch of the church into the daylight .

She was blind as an owl in daylight without glasses: therefore nothing to look at.

Taking a deep breath, the youth stepped lightly into daylight .

The daylight faded and she was alone on the sea.

When daylight came she got up and dressed.

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