daytime
part of speech
noun (daytime; usually no plural); adjective use (daytime TV, daytime hours)
meaning for a pupil
1) Daytime is the part of the day when it is light outside, between sunrise and sunset. tree →
2) Used before another noun, it means happening during the day, as in daytime TV or a daytime nap. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science it is the half of the Earth's turn when your side faces the Sun; animals that are active in the daytime are called diurnal, the opposite of nocturnal. In everyday life it marks when most people work, go to school and play outside. Phrases: in the daytime, during the daytime, daytime temperature.
examples
- Owls sleep in the daytime and hunt at night. tree →
- It is warmer in the daytime than at night. tree →
- We only ride our bikes in the daytime. tree →
- Squirrels are busy in the daytime. tree →
- Daytime temperatures in Australia can reach 40 degrees in summer. tree →
- Grandpa likes a short daytime nap. tree →
- The park is open in the daytime only. tree →
- Daytime TV is mostly quiz shows. tree →
- In the daytime she never came out of her house; she only came out at night. tree →
note
One word, not «day time». Uncountable: say «in the daytime», not «in a daytime». Opposite: night-time. In summer the daytime is longer than in winter; at the North and South Poles it can last for months.
In the corpora
- A boy in Texas woke his hamster in the daytime by poking it; the startled hamster bit his finger hard.
- A bird that sits fluffed up and sleepy in the daytime may be sick.
- Hedgehogs are night animals, so a hedgehog out in the daytime may be sick.
- Fear often feels much bigger at night and in dreams than it is in the daytime.
- The Moon is often visible in the daytime sky, depending on its phase.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «daytime» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.