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daylight
has definitions from the field of physics
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[ noun ] the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
Examples "the dawn turned night into day" "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime" Used in print (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)The frequently postulated antique worry that the daylight hours might dwindle to complete darkness apparently gave_rise to a ritual and celebration which we still recognize . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Before daylight Sunday morning , a posse of twenty-three men under the leadership of Deputy_Sheriff_Frank_MacPherson of Catskill followed the trail to the house of Francisco_Chaves , where 100 to 150 Mexicans had gathered . Related terms night time_period afternoon evening midafternoon day morning |
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[ noun ] (physics) light during the daytime
Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Emerson , in his lecture , refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before , whether dreaming or waking , a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room , and heard precisely this dialogue , at some former hour , they know not when '' . (Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning , and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith_Pierce had made it seem . Related terms |
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