DAYTIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daytime mean? 

• DAYTIME (noun)
  The noun DAYTIME has 1 sense:

1. the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside

  Familiarity information: DAYTIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAYTIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

day; daylight; daytime

Context example:

it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime

Hypernyms ("daytime" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "daytime"):

forenoon; morn; morning; morning time (the time period between dawn and noon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daytime"):

afternoon (the part of the day between noon and evening)

midafternoon (the middle part of the afternoon)

eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))

Holonyms ("daytime" is a part of...):

24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)

 Context examples 

Sleep maintenance is impaired, resulting in daytime hypersomnolence.

(Central Sleep Apnea Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Daytime supervision, which may include recreational or medical facilities, for children, seniors, or people needing special assistance.

(Daycare, NCI Thesaurus)

Those provide more variability than daytime levels due to the stresses associated with disordered breathing occurring during sleep.

(Researchers identify genetic variations linked to oxygen drops during sleep, National Institutes of Health)

Regular daytime nappers who slept for more than 90 minutes were 25% more likely to later have a stroke than people who napped for under half an hour.

(Regular extended sleep increases risk of stroke, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Nitrogen acquisition happens by day, using energy driven by daytime photosynthesis.

(Research reveals harmful algal blooms' daily cycles, National Science Foundation)

Conversely, biting levels were significantly elevated when mosquitoes were exposed to a dark treatment during the late day, suggesting that light suppresses biting behaviour even during the late daytime.

(Shining light at night quells mosquito bites, SciDev.Net)

Bacteria in waters above dozens of coral reefs change dramatically during the night, scientists have discovered, then return to the same daytime community they lived in the morning before.

(Bacteria living near coral reefs change in synchrony across distances, National Science Foundation)

This is an especially important factor for scientists to consider for future research, given that many calorie-reduction studies involve only daytime feeding, which is the wrong time for otherwise nocturnal mice.

(Eating at 'Wrong Time' Affects Body Weight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Sleep deficiency and daytime drowsiness are surprisingly widespread, with drowsiness affecting up to 20% of all children.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Intriguingly, the genetic basis of depressive disorder also overlaps with that for obesity and multiple measures of sleep quality, including daytime sleepiness, insomnia and tiredness.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)