skylight

«skylight» in Mova's school dictionary: a window in a roof or ceiling that lets daylight in from… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a skylight, skylights)

meaning for a pupil

A skylight is a window in a roof or ceiling that lets daylight in from above. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and design: attics and kitchens have skylights. In science about light: skylights let natural light in, saving electricity. In stories, someone may climb out through the skylight.

examples

• Rain drummed on the skylight. tree →
• The skylight lets light into the attic. tree →
• We could see stars through the skylight. tree →
• The cat climbed out through the open skylight. tree →
• A skylight saves electricity in the day. tree →
• Snow covered the skylight. tree →

note

Countable. Compound: sky + light. Not the same as "daylight" or "skyline".

In the corpora

• When big hailstones fall, go indoors and stay away from windows and skylights, because hail can hurt people and break glass.
• Old roofs often have skylights and thin panels that break when stepped on, and a fall onto concrete can kill.

Trees and pragmatics

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