Word Finder - daylight

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The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.

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A light source that simulates daylight.

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(photometry) 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.

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The period of time between sunrise and sunset.

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We should get home while it's still daylight.

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Daybreak.

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We had only two hours to work before daylight.

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Exposure to public scrutiny.

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Budgeting a spy organization can't very well be done in daylight.

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A clear, open space.

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All small running backs instinctively run to daylight.

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(machinery) The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.

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The minimum and maximum daylights on an injection molding machine determines the sizes of the items it can make.

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Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.

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We completely agree. There's no daylight between us on the issue.

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To expose to daylight

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To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.

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To allow light in, as by opening drapes.

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(landscaping) To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.

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To gain exposure to the open.

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The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.

It was bright daylight when she woke.

It was daylight, and there were a ton of people around.

In daylight, he was almost approachable.

The next morning it was daylight before she woke, and he was gone.

When Saturday's daylight arrived to David Dean's exhausted eyes, the time had slipped past his usual rising hour and voices and footsteps rattled the old timbers of Bird Song.

Martha finally brought to daylight what was on all our minds.

Daylight was making a feeble attempt to break through the heavy cloud cover.

She opened her eyes to find it was daylight.

They're not intolerant to daylight like you are.

I opened my eyes to full daylight.

The walls were bare, the curtains drawn even during daylight, and the heavy wooden furniture solid and worn.

For a moment she lay still, afraid any movement would frighten him away like a wild cat in the daylight.

As May gave way to June, the lengthening daylight hours gave her more time to be with Jonathan and Destiny and still complete taking care of the animals before darkness.

It was daylight here, and he instinctively assessed it was still Sunday on this side of the world.

The man she'd seen in daylight and the one who'd kissed her so passionately in moonlight became two separate people.

Daylight brought the sounds of gunfire and rockets on top of the mountain that didn't cease even when night fell again.

He spoke to Harrigan, who was filling out a report on a daylight burglary.

The sound of running water in the next room told Dean that daylight had finally arrived and Cynthia Byrne was up and around.

In spite of the cloudy weather and the threat of rain, Dean ended the daylight hours listening to the hum of his bike tires on the country roads west of Parkside.

Another remarkable characteristic is found in the deep narrow ravines (caaple yta), bordered by precipitous cliffs, which traverse the mountainous districts; into some of these the daylight scarcely penetrates.

In his last work Fechner, aged but full of hope, contrasts this joyous "daylight view" of the world with the dead, dreary "night view" of materialism.

Smaller artists can make history; the greatest absorb it into that daylight which is its final cause.

They are devoted sun-worshippers and in the early morning, before it is daylight, they emerge from their burrows and wait in rows till their divinity appears; when they bask joyfully in his beams."

Lles Area topmost ridges, which, it was hoped, would be reached by daylight - a somewhat sanguine anticipation, as it turned out.

How could such a thing happen in broad daylight during a procession, when troops and a military escort were actually present ?"

But his intercourse with spirits was often perfectly calm, in broad daylight, and with all his faculties awake.

At daylight the larger ships joined in again, and before long the whole Russian fleet, with few exceptions, had been captured or sunk.

This meant that the expedition must start in daylight to be off the port by midnight.

The influence of daylight is presumably the principal cause of the difference between the phenomena during November, December and January at Cape Thorsden and Jan Mayen, for in the equinoctial months the results from these two stations are closely similar.

Before daylight on the 19th of August 1779 was approaching, Major Henry Lee with a force of about 400 men surprised the British garrison at Paulus Hook, where Jersey City now stands, and, although sustaining a loss of 20 men, killed 50 of the garrison and took about 160 prisoners.

Stay safe at cash dispensers Always try to go in daylight hours.

Now he suddenly saw those badly daubed pictures in clear daylight and without a glass.

It was after six am, but still not full daylight.

But the urgent need of pressing forward at once was not realized by the attacking side, and the opposition offered by the parties of Osmanlis close to the bay was taken too seriously after daylight.

With the gas in excess a heavy lurid flame emitting dense volumes of smoke results, whilst if it be driven out in a sufficiently thin sheet, it burns with a flame of intense brilliancy and almost perfect whiteness, by the light of which colours can be judged as well as they can by daylight.

In five days its light had reached the first magnitude, and a little later it even equalled Venus in brilliancy and was observed in full daylight.

It is the Christians who say what is said about him, and it has become plain as daylight (7) Evapyeca 4caprupnvev) that Simon was nothing divine " (Origen, Cont.

When tired of the broad daylight of American activity, he sought refuge and rest in the dim twilight of medieval legend and German sentiment.

The climate is thoroughly Arctic. In the northern parts unbroken daylight in summer and darkness in winter last from two to three months each; and through the greater part of the country the sun does not rise at mid-winter or set at midsummer.

In December and January in the far north there is little more daylight than a cold glimmer of dawn; by February, however, there are some hours of daylight; in March the heat of the sun is beginning to modify the cold, and now and in April the birds of passage begin to appear.

It further suggested, to Lockyer and P. Janssen separately, the spectroscopic method of observing these objects in daylight.

That same evening Lord Frederick and the permanent undersecretary Thomas Henry Burke were murdered in the Phoenix Park in broad daylight.

If microscopic preparations are observed by diffused daylight or by the more or less white light of the usual artificial sources, then an objective of fixed numerical aperture will only represent details of a definite fineness.

Still smaller particles cannot be portrayed by using ordinary daylight.

Diffused daylight is very suitable.

This is also the most suitable distance when diffused daylight is used, but it is too short with artificial light; the FIG.

With low magnifying systems and a large free object distance, ordinary good daylight is sufficient.

The rest of the walls were bare, the curtains drawn even during daylight, and the heavy wooden furniture solid and worn.

The next, I can't stand daylight and Damian is beating down my door.

Later, much later, Dean had spelled her, sitting up with Martha, who was far more upset with the prospect of flying Bird Song's nest than she let on during the daylight hours.