daylight
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- noun
- /ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/
:
luz del día
- She opened the curtains to let the daylight fill the dark room.
- daylight hours
- broad daylight
- natural daylight
What this does is add extra minutes of daylight to the equinox.
- What this does is add extra minutes of daylight to the equinox.
- But he done in broad daylight with nobody clave on.
- It's just maybe shrinking that feeding window to the daylight hours.
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The children played outside in the warm daylight of summer.
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But this last time, it happened in broad daylight in the Chicago Art Institute.
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It's giving you an extra hour of daylight when you least need it.
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In the daylight, neither appears necessary.
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Animals tend to be active in either the daylight or night time.
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A bird's cry at daylight, or before, in the early March wind.
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I'm more excited about having longer daylight than anything else.
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And then with the first rays of daylight, he started to laugh.
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Baseball games have not been canceled, but are held during the daylight hours and generally just on weekends.
Academic text (1994) -
I won't be able to get the falcon till daylight, maybe later.
Synonyms
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The time between sunrise and sunset when it is light outside
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The light from the sun that makes things bright during the day
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The light and warmth from the sun that makes a day bright
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The time when the sun is up
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During the day when it is bright and everyone can see
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Light that comes from the sun, not from lamps
Light from the sun during the day
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Setting clocks forward one hour during some months to have more daylight in the evening
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To move clocks forward by one hour in the warmer months to make evenings lighter
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People turn clocks forward one hour in summer to make evenings lighter
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Etymology
The word daylight comes from the two simple parts day and light, literally the 'light' of the 'day', so it means the natural sunlight and the time when it is light outside.