Daytime vs Daylight - What's the difference?
daytime | daylight |
The time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset.
Pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day.
Happening during the day.
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.
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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.
Daylight is a synonym of daytime.
Daylight is a antonym of daytime.
As nouns the difference between daytime and daylight
is that daytime is the time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset while daylight is the light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.As an adjective daytime
is pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day.As a verb daylight is
to expose to daylight.daytime
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Alternative forms
* day-timeNoun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* dayAntonyms
* night * nighttimeDerived terms
* daytimesAdjective
(-)- daytime television
Synonyms
* (pertaining to daytime ): day * (happening during the day ): dayAntonyms
* (pertaining to daytime ): evening, night, nighttime * (happening during the day ): evening, night, nighttimeAnagrams
*daylight
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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.