daylight (noun)
1daylight — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ broad, full ▪ He was robbed in broad daylight. ▪ bright ▪ natural ▪ I prefer to work in natural daylight …
2daylight — ► NOUN 1) the natural light of the day. 2) dawn. 3) visible distance between one person or thing and another. 4) (the (living) daylights) life: he beat the living daylights out of them. ● see daylight Cf. ↑see daylight …
3daylight saving time — noun also daylight saving or daylight time : time that is ahead of standard time usually by one hour but sometimes by two hours and that is used in some places especially in spring, summer, and fall for the purpose of utilizing all the daylight… …
4daylight saving — noun time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings • Syn: ↑daylight saving time, ↑daylight savings time, ↑daylight savings • Hypernyms: ↑time * * *… …
5daylight time — noun see daylight saving time * * * ˌdaylight ˈsaving time [daylight saving time] (abbr. DST) (also ˈdaylight time …
6daylight — noun (U) 1 the light produced by the sun during the day: We ll keep working while there s still enough daylight. 2 daylight robbery BrE informal a situation in which something costs you a lot more than it should: £2.50 for a cup of coffee? It s… …
7daylight savings — noun time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings • Syn: ↑daylight saving time, ↑daylight savings time, ↑daylight saving • Hypernyms: ↑time * * *… …
8daylight-saving time — noun time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings • Syn: ↑daylight savings time, ↑daylight saving, ↑daylight savings • Hypernyms: ↑time * * * /day… …
9daylight robbery — see under ↑rob1 • • • Main Entry: ↑day daylight robbery Glaring extortion • • • Main Entry: ↑rob * * * daylight robbery UK US noun [uncountable] british …
10daylight lamp — noun : an incandescent or fluorescent lamp that gives an artificial light whose energy distribution approximates that of daylight * * * daylight lamp noun (physics) A lamp which emits light of wavelengths similar to those of ordinary daylight • • …
