(n.) 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.
(n.) The eyes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nursing occupied about 210 min in 8 daylight hours for the infants at 10 weeks of age, and the time spent nursing decreased at the average rate of 9.4 min per week until the infants were about 6 months old.
(2) Plasma and IL peptide levels were relatively constant during daylight hours (0600-1800 h), but increased after the onset of darkness and reached maximal concentrations at 0200 h. To examine the possibility that this diurnal rhythm in the content and secretion of POMC-derived peptides resulted from diurnal changes in the biosynthesis of POMC, the concentration and rate of synthesis of POMC mRNA were examined.
(3) Pronounced diurnal cycles in gastric motility were observed in which the frequency and amplitude of gastric contractions were increased during the daylight and depressed during darkness.
(4) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
(5) On the day Fahmy met the Guardian, one of the committee's working groups had just decided to alter the "start date" of their enquiries – moving it from 14 January, the day the Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was forced from office, back to June 2010 when the Alexandrian youth Khaled Said was killed in broad daylight by two police officers, an incident that mobilised many Egyptians against the Mubarak regime.
(6) By the 1990s, Dirie had become a supermodel, fronting Chanel campaigns and appeared in the James Bond film The Living Daylights .
(7) Annette Ramelsberger of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, who has attended every trial day so far, told German broadcaster DLF that she had been struck in particular by how unmoved Zschäpe was by the accounts given by the parents of 21-year-old Halit Yozgat, the owner of an internet cafe who was gunned down in broad daylight in Kassell on 6 April 2006.
(8) If there is justice for Mark some of this sadness will end.” The family’s solicitor, Cyrilia Davies Knight, from Birnberg Peirce solicitors, said: “There are serious questions about whether this highly trained police officer, who shot Mark in broad daylight from an unobstructed view a few metres away from him, made a mistake that was reasonable and lawful.” She added: “A death of this kind is the cause of uniquely intense public concern as demonstrated by the disturbances after Mark’s death.
(9) Upon standing in diffuse daylight, solutions of thyroxine showed increased ability to inhibit the enzyme, presumably as a result of oxidation of enzyme sulfhydryl groups by free iodine that is released photochemically.
(10) Feces from infected calves and lambs were placed on pasture plots and samples of upper herbage, lower herbage, mat and soil were collected at five intervals per day throughout the daylight hours on 18 sample days over 12 months.
(11) The ITV pictures showed him level when the ball was played, then the computer showed his leg was sticking out but, even if you accept it was accurate modelling, doesn't that mean he was level except a teeny weeny bit of him (what happened to the 'daylight' rule?).
(12) The light absorbance of the clarified HPA digestion product was measured directly, after a brief incubation period, and was stable to storage of samples in diffuse daylight for at least 2 d. Proteinase produced by growth in refrigerated whole milk of as few as 2.5 X 10(6) cfu ml-1 of Pseudomonas fluorescens AR11 was detected.
(13) Irradiation of methyl 5,8-epoxyretinoate in acetonitrile with a light from a high-pressure mercury lamp or a daylight fluorescent lamp afforded three new products, which were purified by high-performance liquid chromatography.
(14) 1st part of the animals received food in 2-h-period by natural daylight (natural lighting conditions), the 2nd part at the same period of time but in the dark (lighting conditions reversed to natural).
(15) 5.16pm GMT A line in the statement from Downing Street on David Cameron’s conversation with Vladimir Putin could indicate potential daylight between Putin and Yanukovych on the topic of the Ukrainian election schedule.
(16) Uniocular eye closure in bright daylight has been considered as evidence of a binocular vision anomaly.
(17) Daylight food intake was significantly increased, whereas night-time feeding was significantly decreased, as compared with the saline-control group.
(18) Wednesday’s leak to Sky could well have been an attempt to flush Abbott’s oppositionism out into the public domain, into daylight, where it’s unlikely to go down very well.
(19) They have done that, in broad daylight.” Law enforcement officers should also be asked whether the Dallas shootings will alter the way they patrol, Avent said.
(20) Two premature infants developed phototherapy-induced erythema, one associated with a second-degree burn, after exposure to fluorescent daylight bulbs inadvertently used without Plexiglass shields, thus allowing prolonged ultraviolet A (UVA) exposure.
Daytime
Definition:
(n.) The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness was on average often the first symptom and began at a mean age of 36 years.
(2) Both systolic (p < 0.05) and diastolic (p < 0.01) pressure responses to standing were related to the day-night blood pressure difference and to the standard deviation from mean daytime blood pressure.
(3) The ventilatory assistance was only used at night and resulted in rapid resolution of early morning symptoms and a return to full daytime activity.
(4) We investigated the relationships between sleep variables and daytime pulmonary haemodynamics in 40 COPD patients with daytime arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) between 60-70 mmHg (8-9.3 kPa).
(5) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
(6) Diagnostic signs: a physiological inversion of the circadian rhythm may be observed in people who sleep during the daytime and work at night.
(7) Daytime care in a clinical setting today is feasible in a number of situations, e.g.
(8) The main disabling symptom of narcolepsy-cataplexy is shown to be the unrelenting excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) based upon controlled studies of socioeconomic effects and the poor response to treatment.
(9) In the thecal cells, however, mitotic activity in most of the follicles was distinctly higher in the daytime (16.00 h) than at night (22.00 h, i.e., evening).
(10) We conclude that there is a heterogeneous subpopulation of patients with sleep disorders whose symptoms of daytime sleepiness will show no treatment-related improvement in daytime symptoms if they are evaluated only by the MSLT.
(11) The pH of their gastric contents was measured at hourly daytime and two hourly nighttime intervals for 48 hours.
(12) In order to investigate the possible alterations of electrical activity of aged rat pineal glands, electrophysiological recordings in 3- and 18-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were undertaken at both daytime and nighttime.
(13) "It is less about those two presenters and more revising the direction that the station is going in, which will change the sound of the daytime shows," he said.Yates will continue to present the two weekend afternoon shows on his own.
(14) Flashback patients reported more frequent intrusive items on average and, specifically, more frequent daytime mental imagery.
(15) The discharges were analysed and quantified in the same way as in daytime but here in relation to the organization of sleep.
(16) A single set of clinic blood pressure measurements is quite sensitive for diagnosing daytime hypertension, although its accuracy, specificity and predictive value are low.
(17) Although I miss the daytime output I'm pleased we protected our peak.
(18) It is the most preponderant finding among patients referred to diagnostic sleep laboratories, particularly among patients complaining of excessive daytime sleepiness.
(19) We feel that the increased use of a wheelchair for daytime and evening sitting was a prominent causative factor of the radial nerve paralysis in the cases reported here, and we suspect that this syndrome is being overlooked.
(20) Sensitizers, who were I recallers, had very low daytime self-confidence scores.