(n.) A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.
Example Sentences:
(1) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
(2) Now the fabric of the school is visibly crumbling: roofs leak and skylights are broken; the estimated cost of repairs is £1m.
(3) Skylight review – Nighy and Mulligan in moving mixture of politics and love | Michael Billington Read more Commentators write glibly about the public’s increasing contempt for politicians, and yet what goes unremarked, and is equally damaging, is politicians’ growing contempt for us.
(4) Skylight gives voice to private enterprise’s self-righteous hostility towards those who work in the public services.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest If the indoor park is built, the Astrodome’s thousands of Lucite skylight panels will be swapped for a clear-glass roof.
(6) By virtue of these structural features the eyes should enable this moth not only discrimination of the plane of polarized light but also skylight-orientation via the polarization pattern, depending on moon position.
(7) In the penthouses, alarm clocks can be set to slowly open the skylights to the sound of soothing music, and artworks rotate to reveal TV screens.
(8) There's only 10 of each, so those who covet them need to move quickly ( madebynode.com )… Greenspeak: Daylighting {dey-lie-t'ing} present participle Trend in architecture (possibly because we're not that keen on eco bulbs) to illuminate with natural daylight, making particular use of skylights.
(9) Needless to say, the entire project has also been verified by structural engineers, who reinforced the area around the skylight with "secondary steelwork".
(10) The skylights in the high-ceilinged Victorian central hall were boarded up in the 1960s.
(11) Young Savannah Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) learn to perform compass orientation at sunset based on polarized skylight.
(12) The Lodge is walking distance to Los Feliz Village, where you can sip a milkshake in Fred 62 , an iconic 1950s diner, or scour LA's favourite independent bookstore, Skylight Books .
(13) Shattered skylights allow rain to fall inside and douse the musty hallways.
(14) The heart of the school is now its glorious hall, flooded with natural light once the skylights were scoured of decades of pigeon droppings and London grime, fitted with expensive sound and stage lighting equipment, in use for assemblies, gym, plays, concerts, reading and recitals all day, every day.
(15) Reaching the summit of the building, where a series of roof terraces spill around the twisting protrusions of the gallery skylights, you are greeted with an eyeful of this stuff, a crazed indulgence of over-engineering – which required the development of 30 technical patents to achieve.
(16) Three alerts are now available about the serious hazards posed by skylights and roof openings, manure pits, and the organic solvent dimethylformamide (DMF).
(17) I tried to reproduce the effect by climbing out a window and draping a yellow duvet cover over the kitchen skylight, but this wasn't terribly successful.
(18) Some houses have bulbous bulls’ heads, accessorised by grapes, jutting out above their front door; others have busts of Greek gods peering over the skylight, moustaches lovingly carved; others complex cornices, ideal for storing 120 years of grime.
(19) When I visited, boards pinned with scraps of embroidery, squares of woven tweed and wisps of lace were stacked against Perspex boxes, containing archived clothes and accessories, towering towards the skylights.
(20) Above, the dome slopes up close to 200 feet high, its thousands of Lucite skylight panels bulbing out geometrically, like the eyeball of a fly.
Solar
Definition:
(a.) A loft or upper chamber; a garret room.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.
(a.) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
(a.) Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
(a.) Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(2) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
(3) The patient had mild solar sensitivity by age 7, dyspigmentation by 10 years, and he still currently has moderate symptoms.
(4) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(5) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(6) The antimalarial drugs can clear up skin lesions in patients with polymorphous light eruption and solar urticaria who cannot obtain relief with topical sunscreens and in some patients with porphyria cutanea tarda.
(7) Two hundred and twenty-four people (36.4%) had a spontaneous remission of at least one of their solar keratoses.
(8) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
(9) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
(10) The solar hypothesis was championed publicly in March by the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(11) We will support any political party with a good solar policy.” Coalition at risk of losing Canning byelection, poll shows Read more It advocates a vote against the Liberals and for either Labor, the Greens or the Palmer United party .
(12) A sun protection factor (SPF)-15 and an SPF-30 sunscreen were compared with regard to their ability to prevent sunburn cell formation after the exposure of human skin to a standardized dose of solar-simulated radiation.
(13) The far western deserts of China have been filled with wind farms and solar panels.
(14) Solar CPL sources appear too weak and random to be effective.
(15) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
(16) "We should be looking instead at decentralising the system, and looking closer to home for our energy supplies, such as solar panels on homes or harnessing wind energy on the coasts, or inland," he said.
(17) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Install 2 kilowatt solar PV panels 0.4 Buy a new A++ refrigerator if yours is more than 4 years old, and only use a small-screen TV 0.1 Use LED or fluorescent lights where you currently have halogen lights installed 0.1 Buy an automated system to turn off appliances when not in use; get a meter that shows actual energy use and use it to monitor your household 0.1 Only use your washing machine and dishwasher when full to capacity and at lowest temperature 0.1 Never use the tumble dryer 0.1 Get rid of the freezer if you can, and replace your small appliances with "eco" varieties 0.1 Car (1.5 tonnes of CO 2 ) There is one car for every two people in the UK, and each one travels an average of about 9,000 miles a year.
(18) However, given that we will continue to have power networks, and that the costs associated with these are mainly fixed, there is only very limited network cost saving – due to avoided network losses - from investing in solar PV.
(19) Thanks to solar, Germany is on track to get 35% of its electricity from renewables by the end of the decade.
(20) Solar UV-irradiance was compared with radiation from different phototherapy devices (UVB, SUP, and PUVA therapy equipment).