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Definition: Skylight |
SkylightNoun1. A window in a roof to admit daylight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "skylight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Energy | A window located on the roof of a structure to provide interior building spaces with natural daylight, warmth, and ventilation. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A wood or metal structure built over a weather-deck opening to afford light and ventilation to the spaces below. The top covers are flat or pitched and are provided with hinges. They can be raised or lowered by screw gear from below. Brass rods are frequently fitted over the glass for protection. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | From the point of view of the submariner, thin places in the ice canopy, usually less than 1 m thick and appearing from below as relatively light, translucent patches in dark surroundings. The under-surface of a skylight is normally flat. Skylights are called large if big enough for a submarine to attempt to surface through them ( 120 m ), or small if not. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | A structure built over a deck opening to afford light and ventilation to the spaces below. The top covers are provided with hinges. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word skylight, when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language.The term "skylight", when used by itself, can refer to:
- Diffuse sky radiation
- a window set into a ceiling and roof
- Skylight is also a theater play by David Hare.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skylight."
Synonym: SkylightSynonym: fanlight (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Skylight |
| English words defined with "skylight": Coamings. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "skylight": diffuse sky radiation ♦ Rayleigh atmosphere. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A burglar tried to break into my friend's house, fell through a skylight, and cut his leg on a knife on the kitchen counter (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Skylight Room (1917) Skylight Sleep (1916) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | View in one of the ship's wards, 1898, with a large skylight in the upper right. Credit: NAVY. |  | United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.). Room 88, N.W. Skylight. Plan and sections] / M.C. Meigs, Capt. of engineers, 30 April 1858. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Attic room showing skylight, home of Mary Baker Eddy, Lynn, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dining room with stained glass skylight in ocean liner or steamship. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | International Nickel Co. Lowering old skylight at G.W.U. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "White skylight bg" by Mike Rose Commentary: "This is a picture of a really deep skylight in my house. I think it would make a nice background." | "Skylight" by Taylor Dixson Commentary: "Creepy skylight in my office building." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | This means to leave church by backdoor of sin and reenter through the skylight of repentance |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Skylight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Skylight" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 89 | 34,931 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
skylight | 1,221 | install a skylight | 13 |
velux skylight | 126 | repair skylight | 12 |
skylight shades | 102 | solar tube skylight | 12 |
tubular skylight | 92 | residential skylight | 12 |
skylight blind | 87 | skylight wholesale | 12 |
skylight tube | 35 | anderson skylight | 11 |
cover skylight | 33 | vellux skylight | 11 |
aluplex skylight | 31 | gordon skylight | 10 |
window skylight | 27 | bristolite skylight | 10 |
skylight shade | 22 | skylight bubble | 10 |
roof skylight | 22 | skylight for home | 9 |
skylight wasco | 22 | commercial skylight | 9 |
bank skylight | 21 | replacement skylight | 9 |
skylight installation | 21 | skylight filter | 9 |
skylight manufacturer | 19 | skylight tristar | 9 |
installing a skylight | 18 | skylight sun tek | 9 |
roto skylight | 17 | amp skylight | 9 |
dome skylight | 17 | leaking skylight | 9 |
columbia skylight | 15 | solar skylight | 8 |
financial skylight | 13 | pella skylight | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "skylight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gallustër (dormer, lantern), dritë abazhuri, baxhë (dormer, manhole, scuttle, slot), çati prej xhami. (various references) | |
Arabic | كوة (aperture, hole, loophole, louver, opening, scuttle, small window), المنور كوة في سقف بيت. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светъл люк, тавански прозорец, оберлихт (lantern, lantern-light), прозорец на покрив. (various references) | |
Chinese | 天窗 (louver, Louvre, scuttle). (various references) | |
Czech | vikýř. (various references) | |
Danish | skylightlem (port), skylight, tagvindue (dormer), ovenlys (roof-light). (various references) | |
Dutch | dakraam (porthole), luik (blind, Liège, porthole, shutter). (various references) | |
Esperanto | luko (porthole). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ljóari (porthole), lúka (porthole, ticket-window, weed, weed out, window), kúgveyga (porthole). (various references) | |
Farsi | پنجره سقفی , پنجره طاق . (various references) | |
Finnish | ylävalo (roof-light), valoarkku, taivaansinerrys, kattovalo (roof-light), kattoikkuna. (various references) | |
French | lucarne. (various references) | |
German | Oberlicht (fanlight, light, port, roof-light, window over door), dachfenster (dormer, dormer window). (various references) | |
Greek | σπιράγιο(κν.), παραφωτίδα (side light), φώς οροφής (roof-light), φωταγωγόσ (bringing light), φωταγωγός (light well), φεγγίτησ (dormer, dormitory, hatch, scuttle, transom window), φεγγίτης (deadlight, dormer), αναφωτίδα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | צוהר (aperture, brightness, hatch, louver, porthole, window, zenith). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tetõablak (dormer, dormer window, gable window, storm window), tetőablak (dormer-window, louver, scuttle, storm-window). (various references) | |
Italian | lucernario (dormer, roof-light). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 明かり採り (dormer, transom), 引窓 (trap door), 引き窓 (trap door), 天窓 , スエズ運河 (multistory parking garage, scarf, scarlet, scenic mountain road, scout, skirt, sky, sky blue, sky mate, sky restaurant, skydiver, skydiving, skyjack, Skylab, sky-laboratory, skylark, skyline, skyscraper, squash, student discount air ticket, Suez Canal, sweat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひきまど (trap door), あかりとり (dormer, transom), スカイライト , てんまど. (various references) | |
Korean | 스카이라이트. (various references) | |
Manx | uinnag chlea (dormer window). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ylightskay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | clarabóia (borrowed light, lantern, light, louver, louvre, porthole). (various references) | |
Romanian | lucarnã (dormer window, light). (various references) | |
Russian | световой люк, верхний свет. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svetlarnik. (various references) | |
Spanish | claraboya (dormer), tragaluz (dormer, roof-light). (various references) | |
Swedish | skylight, takljus (roof-light), takfönster. (various references) | |
Thai | หน้าต่างบนหลังคา. (various references) | |
Turkish | tepe penceresi (sunroof), tavan penceresi, aydınlık (air shaft, airway, bright, brightly, clear, daylight, enlightenment, high speed, illumination, light, light-well, luminous, radiance, sunlit, sunny). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | верхнє світло (fanlight, lantern), засклений дах, дахове вікно. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cửa sổ ở trần nhà, cửa sổ ở mái nhà (dormer, dormer-window). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "skylight": skylighted, skylights. (additional references) | |
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"Skylight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schlecht, skylet, skylit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "skylight" (pronounced skī"lī't) |
| 4 | -ī" l ī' t | highlight, twilight. |
| 3 | -l ī' t | acolyte, backlight, candlelight, cryolite, impolite, daylight, flashlight, floodlight, headlight, inflight, lazulite, limelight, moonlight, niccolite, overflight, satellite, searchlight, socialite, spotlight, starlight, stoplight, sunlight. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-k-l-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: sightly. | |
-2 letters: lights, skylit, slight. | |
-3 letters: gilts, hilts, kilts, kilty, kiths, light, shily, shtik, sight, silky, silty, styli. | |
-4 letters: ghis, gilt, gist, gits, hilt, hist, hits, ilks, khis, kilt, kist, kith, kits, list, lits, sigh, silk, silt, sith, skit, slit, syli, this, tils. | |
-5 letters: ghi, git, his, hit, ilk, its, khi, kit, lis, lit, shy. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-k-l-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: skylights. | |
+2 letters: skylighted. | |
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