daylight

«daylight» in Mova's school dictionary: the natural light of the Sun during the day — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (daylight — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Daylight is the natural light of the Sun during the day. tree →

2) Daylight can also mean dawn, the time when it first gets light: «We left before daylight». tree →

3) Daylight can also be a gap or opening through which light shows, as at the end of a tunnel. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, daylight comes from the Sun; days have more daylight in summer and less in winter because of the Earth's tilt; near the poles there can be almost 24 hours of daylight in summer. In safety, children should walk home in daylight when possible and wear bright or reflective clothes when it is dark. Daylight saving time moves the clocks forward an hour in spring and back in autumn in many places. Phrases: in broad daylight, daylight hours, daylight saving time, scare the living daylights out of someone.

examples

• We need to get home while it's still daylight. tree →
• Plants need daylight to grow. tree →
• In winter there are fewer hours of daylight. tree →
• The robbery happened in broad daylight! tree →
• Open the curtains and let the daylight in. tree →
• We set off before daylight to catch the sunrise. tree →
• The clocks change for daylight saving time. tree →
• That noise scared the living daylights out of me! tree →
• The tin soldier could already see daylight shining where the arch ended. tree →

note

Uncountable: «some daylight», not «a daylight». One word: daylight. «In broad daylight» means openly, during the day, when anyone could see. In time problems, daylight hours = time from sunrise to sunset: sunrise 6:30 am and sunset 7:45 pm give 13 hours 15 minutes.

In the corpora

• Playing outdoors in daylight helps protect children's eyes from becoming short-sighted (seeing far-away things blurry).
• In daylight, bright fluorescent colours help you stand out; at night it is reflective material and lights that work.
• Fluorescent colours show up best in daylight and do little at night.
• Fluorescent colours glow brightly in daylight, but reflective material is what shines back in headlights at night.
• Research suggests time outdoors in daylight lowers the risk of children becoming short-sighted.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «daylight» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.