daylight

[ dey-lahyt ]

/ ˈdeɪˌlaɪt /

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noun

the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.

public knowledge or awareness; openness: The newspaper article brought the scandal out into the daylight.

the period of day; daytime.

daybreak; dawn.

a clear space or gap, especially between two people or things that should be close together, as between the knees of a horseback rider and a saddle.

disagreement or mental distance between two people: There's very little daylight between the two senators' stances on the issue.

daylights, Informal. mental soundness, consciousness, or wits: The noise scared the daylights out of us.I'd like to beat/knock the daylights out of him!

adjective

Photography. of, relating to, or being film made for exposure by the natural light of day.

verb (used with object), day·light·ed or day·lit, day·light·ing.

to suffuse (an interior space) with artificial light or with daylight filtered through translucent materials, as roofing panels.

Idioms for daylight

see daylight, to progress to a point where completion of a difficult task seems possible or probable.

Origin of daylight

Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; see origin at day, light¹

OTHER WORDS FROM daylight

pre·day·light, noun

Words nearby daylight

dayflower, dayfly, daygirl, dayglow, dayhop, daylight, daylight lamp, daylight robbery, daylight saving, daylight-saving time, daylights

Example sentences from the Web for daylight

Not 90 seconds later, Brown lay shot to death in broad daylight in the middle of a Missouri street.

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“It was a magical feeling, leaving daylight to sneak into a theater,” he says wistfully.

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Two gunmen pulled off a daylight heist in the Diamond District and evaded every single cop.

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Leonard was running, but not getting any closer to daylight.

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“Pipelines are no longer built during the night, but in broad daylight,” he said.

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If our dear captain had been there, would he not have been watching for the daylight as we had been?

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Ice and hummocks were quite violet wherever they were turned from the daylight.

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By earliest daylight they come crowding around the camp, as though they expected to find something eatable there.

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When I awoke it was daylight, and a glance through a port-hole showed that we were nearing a flat coast.

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To get information before the Somme offensive, the new idea of making daylight raids on the German trenches was adopted.

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British Dictionary definitions for daylight

daylight

/ (ˈdeɪˌlaɪt) /

noun

light from the sun
(as modifier)daylight film

the period when it is light; daytime

daybreak

see daylight

to understand something previously obscure
to realize that the end of a difficult task is approaching

Idioms and Phrases with daylight

daylight

In addition to the idiom beginning with daylight

daylight robbery

also see:

beat the living daylights out of
begin to see daylight
in broad daylight
let daylight through
scare out of one's wits (the living daylights out of)

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daylight

noun

adjective

verb (used with object), day·light·ed or day·lit, day·light·ing.

Idioms for daylight

Origin of daylight

OTHER WORDS FROM daylight

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Example sentences from the Web for daylight

British Dictionary definitions for daylight

noun

Idioms and Phrases with daylight

BROWSE DICTIONARY

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daylight

noun

adjective

verb (used with object), day·light·ed or day·lit, day·light·ing.

Idioms for daylight

Origin of daylight

OTHER WORDS FROM daylight

Words nearby daylight

Words related to daylight

Example sentences from the Web for daylight

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