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# sunlight

«sunlight» in Mova's school dictionary: **The light that comes from the Sun** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (sunlight — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The light that comes from the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#m1)

2) A place or time where this light falls: sitting in the sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science: plants need sunlight to make their food (photosynthesis); sunlight gives warmth and light to the Earth; sunlight takes about eight minutes to reach the Earth; white sunlight splits into the colours of the rainbow. In safety: too much sunlight burns skin, so use sun cream, a hat and shade (slip, slop, slap in Australia); never look straight at the Sun. Phrases: in the sunlight, bright sunlight, direct sunlight, sunlight and water.

### examples

- Plants need sunlight and water to grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#x1)
- The cat is sleeping in a patch of sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#x2)
- Keep the medicine out of direct sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#x3)
- Sunlight came through the window in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#x4)
- Never look straight at the Sun, even in bright sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#x5)
- Sunlight takes about eight minutes to travel to Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#x6)
- A rainbow appears when sunlight shines through raindrops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#x7)
- Strong sunlight can burn your skin in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#x8)
- "Rejoice with us," said the air and the sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «some sunlight», not «a sunlight» or «sunlights». One word. Related words: sunshine (sunny weather), sunrise, sunset, sunburn. Moonlight is really sunlight reflected by the Moon — the Moon makes no light itself.

### In the corpora

- [Corals are tiny animals called polyps that build limestone skeletons; algae living inside them make food from sunlight and share it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/9/)
- [Leaves use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide from the air into sugar for food; this is called photosynthesis.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/8/)
- [There are more than 600 kinds of carnivorous plants, and all of them still make their food from sunlight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/16/)
- [Water plants use light to make sugar and give off oxygen, so pondweed makes bubbles in sunlight and stops in the dark.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/18/)
- [Dyes can also leave: they wash out, rub off and fade in sunlight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sunlight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunlight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.