daylight

noun daylights · day-light

1. countable, uncountable The natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either sunny days or cloudy days). Meronym: sunbeams

   Similar: sunlight, sunshine

2. countable, uncountable A light source that simulates daylight.
3. countable 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. countable, uncountable The period of time between sunrise and sunset. burning daylight

   Similar: daytime, day, daylight, daylength, photoperiod

5. countable, uncountable Daybreak. We had only two hours to work before daylight.

   Similar: sunlight, sunrise, dayspring, dawn, ass crack of dawn, break, break of dawn, break of day, butt crack of dawn, cockcrow, crack of dawn, daybreak

6. countable, uncountable Exposure to public scrutiny. Budgeting a spy organization can't very well be done in daylight.

   Similar: sunshine

7. countable, uncountable A clear, open space. All small running backs instinctively run to daylight.
8. countable The space between platens on a press or similar machinery. The minimum and maximum daylights on an injection molding machine determines the sizes of the items it can make.
9. countable, figuratively, uncountable Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement. We completely agree. There's no daylight between us on the issue.
10. countable, figuratively, uncountable Meaningful or noticeable difference or distinction between two things, especially concepts. There's not much daylight between saying that the universe is God and saying that God doesn't exist.
11. countable, uncountable The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.

Opposite: night, darkness

verb daylights · daylighting · daylighted · daylit

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. intransitive To gain exposure to the open. The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
6. intransitive To moonlight (work a second, often illicit job) during the daytime. 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.