Daytime
['deɪtaɪm] or ['detaɪm]
Definition
(n.) The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.
Edited by Blair
Examples
- They picket them here to feed at night and keep them out of sight in the timber in the daytime, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Practically all people know that ribbons and ties, trimmings and dresses, frequently look different at night from what they do in the daytime. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- As I was on all the time, I would take a nap of an hour or so in the daytime--any time--and I used to sleep on those tubes in the cellar. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Edison revelled in the opportunity for study and experiment given him by his long hours of freedom in the daytime, but needed sleep, just as any healthy youth does. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- From these basins the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It is very possible we will all be shot for it if you do it in the daytime. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I slept in the daytime and we wrote notes during the day when we were awake and sent them by Ferguson. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Has Mrs. Michelson been taking to her bed in the daytime? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But now it gives me pleasure to say thus, in the daytime, that I care for thee. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This was an approach toward accuracy and it was effective for night use as well as for the daytime. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And shuttlecock, now--I don't know a finer game than shuttlecock for the daytime. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That kept him busy at night, but he refused to sleep during the daytime as other night operators did, and used that time to work on his own schemes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He expelled Manlius from the Senate for giving his wife a kiss in the daytime in the sight of their daughter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whirlwinds and spouts are not always, though most commonly, in the daytime. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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