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発音

• IPA: /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/
• 韻: -ʌnlaɪt
• ハイフネーション: sun‧light

名詞

sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)

1. All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.

   Hypernyms: starlight (broad sense only) < natural light < light < EMR, electromagnetic radiation < radiation < energy

   Meronym: sunbeams

   Coordinate terms: starlight (usual idiomatic sense), moonlight

   Near-synonym: daylight

   Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.

   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

   • 2013 July 16, skullsinthestars, “Simple fun with polarizers!”, in Skulls in the Stars‎:

     Instead of using unpolarized sunlight as my light source and then filtering it with a polarizer, I can just use my screen as a source of polarized light.

2. (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.

   Synonyms: sunshine, sunniness

3. Synonym of sunrise.

   Synonyms: daylight, daybreak, dayspring, dawn; see also Thesaurus:dawn

4. (attributive) Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).

   sunlight zone

同意語

• (light from the sun): daylight, sun, sunshine
• (brightness): hope, optimism
• (sunrise): break of day, first light, sunup; see also Thesaurus:dawn

派生語

• Port Sunlight
• synchro-sunlight
• sunlight is the best disinfectant

関連する語

• sunbeam

動詞

sunlight (third-person singular simple present sunlights, present participle sunlighting, simple past and past participle sunlighted)

1. To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.

参照

• sunlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• hustling, unlights