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SUNLIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The rays of the sun
Example:
the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
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:
Most scientists have homed in on the northern and southern mid-latitudes, which have more plentiful sunlight and warmer temperatures than the poles.
(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)
The shadow of a squat figure had stolen across the patch of sunlight.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
During the winter, the Arctic receives very little sunlight and reflects less light.
(Earthshine, NASA)
In biology, there are many examples where light induces movement or change—think of flowers and leaves turning toward sunlight.
(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
On the artificial leaf, two light absorbers, similar to the molecules in plants that harvest sunlight, are combined with a catalyst made from the naturally abundant element cobalt.
(‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas, University of Cambridge)
This upward current brought the nitrates nearer to the surface, where phytoplankton, which also need sunlight, tend to live.
(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)
A burn is damage to your body's tissues caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, sunlight or radiation.
(Burns, NIH: National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
Dermatitis caused or precipitated by exposure to ultraviolet sunlight, or by mediating phototoxic or photoallergic material in response to ultraviolet sunlight.
(Photosensitive Dermatitis, NCI Thesaurus)
Drugs that are pharmacologically inactive but when exposed to ultraviolet radiation or sunlight are converted to their active metabolite to produce a beneficial reaction affecting the diseased tissue.
(Photosensitizing agent, NCI Thesaurus)
Their icy and glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
