SUNLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sunlight mean? 

• SUNLIGHT (noun)
  The noun SUNLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the rays of the sun

  Familiarity information: SUNLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rays of the sun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

sun; sunlight; sunshine

Context example:

the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind

Hypernyms ("sunlight" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

Meronyms (parts of "sunlight"):

sunbeam; sunray (a ray of sunlight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sunlight"):

sunburst (a sudden emergence of the sun from behind clouds)

 Context examples 

But the time will come when your trust shall be whole and complete in me, and when you shall understand as though the sunlight himself shone through.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Cycles in daily and annual sunlight cause the familiar swings in temperatures and seasons.

(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)

Excessive exposure to sunlight is a risk factor.

(Conjunctival Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is caused by not having enough vitamin D in the diet or by not getting enough sunlight.

(Childhood Rickets, NCI Dictionary)

And I sat there so many hours, that the shade became sunlight, and the sunlight became shade again, and still I sat there waiting for the money.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A condition in which the skin or eyes become very sensitive to sunlight or other forms of light.

(Phototoxicity, NCI Dictionary)

“Come, Watson,” said he, and we passed from that house of grief into the pale sunlight of the winter day.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I dashed out of the door into the clear sunlight.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The components used to make the perovskite can be changed to give the materials different colours and structural properties, for example, making the films emit different colours or collect sunlight more efficiently.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)

No sunlight means no power, so there was real risk we might freeze to death.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)