different between daylight vs greyline

English

Alternative forms

• day-light

Etymology

From Middle English daye-lighte, dey li?ht, daili?t, day-liht, dai-liht (also as days ly?t, daies liht), equivalent to day +? light. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deegeslucht, Daisljoacht (“daylight”), West Frisian deiljocht (“daylight”), Dutch daglicht (“daylight”), German Tageslicht (“daylight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de?la?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

daylight (countable and uncountable, plural daylights)

1. The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.
2. A light source that simulates daylight.
3. (countable, 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.
4. The period of time between sunrise and sunset.

5. Daybreak.
   • 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pp.284-5

     Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.

6. Exposure to public scrutiny.

7. A clear, open space.

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

9. (idiomatic) Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.

Synonyms

• (light from the Sun): sunlight, sunshine
• (period between sunrise and sunset): daytime; see also Thesaurus:daytime
• (daybreak): dayspring, sunrise; see also Thesaurus:dawn

Antonyms

• night
• darkness

Derived terms

• broad daylight, in broad daylight

Translations

Verb

daylight (third-person singular simple present daylights, present participle daylighting, simple past and past participle daylighted or daylit)

1. To expose to daylight
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 7, [1]

     […] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 15,

     […] she was not looking at the daylit, sunny world which she so wanted to see.

2. (architecture) To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
3. To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
4. (landscaping, civil engineering) 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.

Translations

See also

• dawn
• sunrise
• sunset

Anagrams

• light day

English

Alternative forms

• grayline

Etymology

From grey +? line.

Noun

greyline (uncountable)

1. the narrow band of dusk and dawn that separates the areas in daylight from those in darkness throughout the world