daylight

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈdeɪlaɪt/    美 /ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either sunny days or cloudy days). countable,uncountable
    — Meronym: sunbeams
  2. A light source that simulates daylight. countable,uncountable
  3. 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. countable
  4. The period of time between sunrise and sunset. countable,uncountable
    — burning daylight
  5. Daybreak. countable,uncountable
    — We had only two hours to work before daylight.
  6. Exposure to public scrutiny. countable,uncountable
    — Budgeting a spy organization can't very well be done in daylight.
  7. A clear, open space. countable,uncountable
    — All small running backs instinctively run to daylight.
  8. The space between platens on a press or similar machinery. countable
    — The minimum and maximum daylights on an injection molding machine determines the sizes of the items it can make.
  9. Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — We completely agree. There's no daylight between us on the issue.
  10. Meaningful or noticeable difference or distinction between two things, especially concepts. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — There's not much daylight between saying that the universe is God and saying that God doesn't exist.
  11. The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To expose to daylight
    — […] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.
  2. To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
  3. To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
  4. To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
  5. To gain exposure to the open. intransitive
    — The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
  6. To moonlight (work a second, often illicit job) during the daytime. intransitive
    — But I find that we have a large number of service wives who are daylighting. Some of them are not only working in the evening, but also during the day.

词形变化

daylights plural day-light alternative daylights present,singular,third-person daylighting participle,present daylighted participle,past daylighted past daylit participle,past daylit past day-light alternative

词汇关系

反义词
night darkness
衍生词
beat the daylight out of broad daylight burn daylight create daylight between oneself and someone daylight factory daylight overdraft daylight robbery daylight saving daylight savings daylight-savings time daylight savings time daylight saving time daylight-saving time daylight standard time daylight time in broad daylight knock the daylight out of multidaylight open daylight predaylight put daylight between oneself and someone
相关词
dawn sunrise sunset

词源

词源 1
From Middle English daye-lighte, dey liȝht, dailiȝt, day-liht, dai-liht (also as days lyȝt, daies liht), equivalent to day + light. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deegeslucht, Daisljoacht (“daylight”), West Frisian deiljocht (“daylight”), Dutch daglicht (“daylight”), German Tageslicht (“daylight”).
词源 2
From Middle English daye-lighte, dey liȝht, dailiȝt, day-liht, dai-liht (also as days lyȝt, daies liht), equivalent to day + light. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deegeslucht, Daisljoacht (“daylight”), West Frisian deiljocht (“daylight”), Dutch daglicht (“daylight”), German Tageslicht (“daylight”).
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