What is the difference between dawn and daylight?
dawn | daylight |
To begin to brighten with daylight.
* Bible, (w) xxviii. 1
To start to appear or be realized.
*
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To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
(countable) The rising of the sun.
(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
(uncountable) The beginning.
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, title= The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.
A light source that simulates daylight.
(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.
The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
Daybreak.
* 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross),
Exposure to public scrutiny.
A clear, open space.
(countable, machinery) The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.
(idiomatic) Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
To expose to daylight
(architecture) To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
To allow light in, as by drawing drapes.
(landscaping, civil engineering) To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
To gain exposure to the open.
In intransitive terms the difference between dawn and daylight
is that dawn is to begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand while daylight is to gain exposure to the open.As a proper noun Dawn
is {{given name|female|from=English}} sometimes given to a girl born at that time of day.dawn
English
Verb
(en verb)- In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdaleneto see the sepulchre.
- in dawning youth
- when life awakes, and dawns at every line
Derived terms
* dawn onSee also
*Noun
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Synonyms
* (rising of the sun) break of dawn, dayspring, sunrise * (time when the sun rises) break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, dayspring, sunrise, sunup * (beginning) beginning, onset, startAntonyms
* duskHypernyms
* twilightDerived terms
* crack of dawn * dawn chorus * it is always darkest before the dawnSee also
* crepuscularAnagrams
* wand ----daylight
English
Noun
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.
Synonyms
* daytime * morningAntonyms
* night * darknessDerived terms
* broad daylight, in broad daylightVerb
- The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
