Daylight vs. Night — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Daylight and Night
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Daylight
Daylight is the combination of all direct and indirect sunlight during the daytime. This includes direct sunlight, diffuse sky radiation, and (often) both of these reflected by Earth and terrestrial objects, like landforms and buildings.
Night
Night (also described as night time or night-time or nighttime, unconventionally spelled as nite) is the period of ambient darkness from sunset to sunrise during each 24-hour day, when the Sun is below the horizon. The exact time when night begins and ends depends on the location and varies throughout the year, based on factors such as season and latitude.
Daylight
The light of day; sunlight.
Night
The period between sunset and sunrise, especially the hours of darkness.
Daylight
Dawn
At work before daylight.
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Night
This period considered as a unit of time
For two nights running.
Daylight
Daytime.
Night
This period considered from its conditions
A rainy night.
Daylight
Exposure to public notice
Corrupt business practices that were finally brought to daylight.
Night
The period between dusk and midnight of a given day
Either late Thursday night or early Friday morning.
Daylight
Understanding or insight into what was formerly obscure
New evidence that gave the researchers some daylight into the matter.
Night
The period between evening and bedtime.
Daylight
(Sports) An opening, as between defensive players, especially one providing an opportunity for action
The running back found some daylight and gained six yards.
Night
This period considered from its activities
A night at the opera.
Daylight
Daylights(Slang) One's wits
"His adventurism had scared the daylights out of them" (Frederick Forsyth).
Night
This period set aside for a specific purpose
Parents' Night at school.
Daylight
The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.
Night
The period between bedtime and morning
Spent the night at a motel.
Daylight
A light source that simulates daylight.
Night
One's sleep during this period
Had a restless night.
Daylight
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.
Night
Nightfall
Worked from morning to night.
Daylight
The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
We should get home while it's still daylight.
Night
Darkness
Vanished into the night.
Daylight
Daybreak.
We had only two hours to work before daylight.
Night
A time or condition of gloom, obscurity, ignorance, or despair
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning" (F. Scott Fitzgerald).
Daylight
Exposure to public scrutiny.
Budgeting a spy organization can't very well be done in daylight.
Night
A time or condition marked by absence of moral or ethical values
"He never would have let us go untroubled into the night of private greed" (Anthony Lewis).
Daylight
A clear, open space.
All small running backs instinctively run to daylight.
He could barely see daylight through the complex clockwork.
Finally, after weeks of work on the project, they could see daylight.
Night
Of or relating to the night
The night air.
Daylight
The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.
The minimum and maximum daylights on an injection molding machine determines the sizes of the items it can make.
Night
Intended for use at night
A night light.
Daylight
(figurative) Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
We completely agree. There's no daylight between us on the issue.
Night
Working during the night
The night nurse.
Daylight
The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.
Night
Active chiefly at night
Night prowlers.
Daylight
To expose to daylight
Night
Occurring after dark
Night baseball.
Daylight
(architecture) To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
Night
(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?
Daylight
To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
Night
The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
Daylight
To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
Night
A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
Daylight
(intransitive) To gain exposure to the open.
The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
Night
(countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
A night on the town
Daylight
The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.
Night
(countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
Daylight
The eyes.
Night
(uncountable) Nightfall.
From noon till night
Daylight
The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside;
The dawn turned night into day
It is easier to make the repairs in the daytime
Night
(uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
The cat disappeared into the night.
Daylight
Light during the daytime
Night
(uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
Night
A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
Night
Ellipsis of good night
Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!
Night
To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
Night
That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
Night
Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.
Night
Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
She closed her eyes in everlasting night.
Do not go gentle into that good nightRage, rage against the dying of the light.
Night
A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
So help me God, as I have watched the night,Ay, night by night, in studying good for England.
Night
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Night
The time between sunset and midnight;
He watched television every night
Night
The period spent sleeping;
I had a restless night
Night
The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit;
Three nights later he collapsed
Night
Darkness;
It vanished into the night
Night
A shortening of nightfall;
They worked from morning to night
Night
A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
Night
Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx
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