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# daylight

noun (daylight — uncountable)

«daylight» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Daylight is the natural light of the Sun during the day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#m1)
2. Daylight can also mean dawn, the time when it first gets light: «We left before daylight». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#m2)
3. Daylight can also be a gap or opening through which light shows, as at the end of a tunnel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science, daylight comes from the Sun; days have more daylight in summer and less in winter because of the Earth's tilt; near the poles there can be almost 24 hours of daylight in summer. In safety, children should walk home in daylight when possible and wear bright or reflective clothes when it is dark. Daylight saving time moves the clocks forward an hour in spring and back in autumn in many places. Phrases: in broad daylight, daylight hours, daylight saving time, scare the living daylights out of someone.

### Examples

- We need to get home while it's still daylight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#x1)
- Plants need daylight to grow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#x2)
- In winter there are fewer hours of daylight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#x3)
- The robbery happened in broad daylight! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#x4)
- Open the curtains and let the daylight in. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#x5)
- We set off before daylight to catch the sunrise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#x6)
- The clocks change for daylight saving time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#x7)
- That noise scared the living daylights out of me! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#x8)
- The tin soldier could already see daylight shining where the arch ended. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/#x9)

### Note

Uncountable: «some daylight», not «a daylight». One word: daylight. «In broad daylight» means openly, during the day, when anyone could see. In time problems, daylight hours = time from sunrise to sunset: sunrise 6:30 am and sunset 7:45 pm give 13 hours 15 minutes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «daylight» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daylight/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«daylight» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/daylight.html) on Mova free.