DAYLIGHT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of daylight in English

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Examples of daylight

daylight
However, the prospect of that happening scares the living daylights out of me.
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On the other hand, there are receptionists who scare the living daylights out of the patient who is waiting to see the doctor.
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In a civilised society, no one has the right to knock the living daylights out of anyone else.
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I certainly meet senior nursing officers in hospitals who terrify the daylights out of me.
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The implications of that remark scare the daylights out of me.
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They make a highly lucrative living by scaring the living daylights out of people, but they flatly refuse to subject their theories to analysis by their scientific peers.
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A sample of 622 daylight spectra was taken, and subjected to an eigenvector analysis.
They booed the daylights out of me, he remembers.
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Paradoxically, enclosed atria provide greater self-shading and the demand for a larger amount of glazing for daylight purposes can be relatively high.
Daily totals of transpiration correlated well with cumulative radiation and the mean saturation de®cit of the air during daylight hours.
Daily fluctuation in daylight intensity was measured with a recording pyroheliometer on site.
Days after transfer from shaded to full daylight pretreated!
After colliding the wall behind the stage, a vase drops on his head, putting the daylights out of him.
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We became interested in ways of delivering the results of highly-accurate daylight simulation.
The three functions that describe the daylight spectral variations are overinterpreted too.
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Translations of daylight

in Chinese (Traditional)
白天, 日光…
in Chinese (Simplified)
白天, 日光…
in Spanish
luz del día, luz diurna [feminine], luz solar [feminine]…
in Portuguese
luz do dia, luz do dia [feminine], luz natural [feminine]…
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दिवसाचा प्रकाश…
日光, 日光(にっこう)…
gün ışığı, gündüz, şafak vakti…
lumière [feminine] du jour, jour [masculine], (lumière du) jour…
claror de dia…
daglicht, dag-, zonsopgang…
சூரியனில் (இருக்கும் காலம்) இருந்து வரும் இயற்கையான ஒளி…
दिन का उजाला…
દિવસનો પ્રકાશ…
dagslys, dag-, daggry…
dagsljus, gryning…
cahaya matahari, siang…
das Tageslicht, der Tagesanbruch…
dagslys [neuter], dagslys, daggry…
دن کی روشنی…
денне світло, денний, світанок…
дневной свет, естественное освещение…
పగలు…
ضَوْء النَّهار…
দিনের আলো, সূর্য থেকে প্রাকৃতিক আলো…
denní světlo, svítání…
siang, fajar…
แสงแดด, กลางวัน, รุ่งอรุณ…
ban ngày, rạng đông…
światło dzienne, świt…
햇빛…
luce del giorno, lo spuntare del giorno…
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