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Daylight vs Ight - What's the difference?

daylight | ight |

As nouns the difference between daylight and ight

is that daylight is the light from the sun, as opposed to that from any other source while ight is (obsolete) (l).

As a verb daylight

is to expose to daylight.

daylight

English

Noun

  • 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), 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.
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * daytime * morning

    Antonyms

    * night * darkness

    Derived terms

    * broad daylight, in broad daylight

    Verb

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

    See also

    * dawn * sunrise * sunset

    ight

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (l)

    • References

    * “ Ight]” listed on page 30 of volume V (H–K), § ii (I) of '' [1st ed., 1901]
    ??Ight,''' var. ''eighte'', Aught ''sb.''¹?''Obs.'', possession.?[¶]?'''1390 Gower ''Conf.'' II. 378 This Priamus had in his ight [''MS. Fairfax     3 yhte A wife and Hecuba she hight. * “ ight]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989