Definition of "daylight"

daylight

/ˈdeɪlaɪt/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural daylights
1. The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.
2. A light source that simulates daylight.
3. (countable, photometry) The intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum generated by the Sun under various conditions or by other light sources intended to simulate natural daylight.
4. The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
5. Daybreak.
  Quotations
  Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
  1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pages 284–5
6. Exposure to public scrutiny.
7. A clear, open space.
8. (countable, machinery) The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.
9. (figurative) Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
  Quotations
  Sometimes hosts are a little saltier when the cameras aren’t rolling, but I don’t recall ever hearing any daylight between the views they express on-air and off.
  2023 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “What Fox News Says When You’re Not Listening”, in The New York Times‎
10. The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.
verb
third-person singular simple present daylights, present participle daylighting, simple past and past participle daylighted or daylit
1. To expose to daylight
  Quotations
  […] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.
  1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 7”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company
  […] she was not looking at the daylit, sunny world which she so wanted to see.
  1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998
2. (architecture) To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
3. To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
4. (landscaping, civil engineering) To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
5. (intransitive) To gain exposure to the open.
  Quotations
  Tunnels were enlarged or daylighted and clearances generally greatly improved.
  1964 October, “Letters: A US lesson in high-capacity freight stock”, in Modern Railways, page 233

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