Crossword clues for skylight
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skylight \Sky"light`\, 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light. 2 wikipedia:Diffuse sky radiation—solar radiation reaching the earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or suspensoids in the atmosphere
WordNet
n. a window in a roof to admit daylight [syn: fanlight]
Wikipedia
Skylight is a means of daylighting.
Skylight may also refer to:
- Skylight (play), by David Hare
- Skylight of a lava tube, a hole in the ceiling of the tube
- Skylight, Arkansas
- Skylight, Kentucky
- Skylight, a short film by David Clayton Rogers
- Skylight Pictures, a film company
- Skylight Opera Theatre, an opera company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Skylight 1A, a photographic filter factor that absorbs ultraviolet radiation
- Lenovo Skylight, a cancelled project for a small portable computer with mobile telephone
- Mount Skylight, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York
- Skylight (building), an office building in Warsaw
Skylight is a play by British dramatist David Hare. The play premiered in the West End at the Cottesloe Theatre in 1995, moving to the Wyndham's Theatre in 1996. The play opened on Broadway in 1996 and again played the West End in 1997 and 2014. The 2014 production transferred to Broadway in 2015.
Skylight is an album by American jazz pianist Art Lande, vibraphonist David Samuels and saxophonist Paul McCandless recorded in 1981 and released on the ECM label.
Skylights are light transmitting fenestration (elements filling building envelope openings) forming all, or a portion of, the roof of a building's space for daylighting purposes.
Skylight is a South African pop rock band from Johannesburg. They formed in 2009 and are known for spreading an ethos of peace and love. The band rose to prominence when they won the 'Road to Joburg Day' competition in 2010.
Skylight is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago.
Saramago originally submitted Skylight for publication in 1953, but the publisher misplaced the manuscript. Rediscovered 36 years later Saramago decided to hold publication until his death. Skylight was published in Portugal in 2011, one year after the writer's death. It has been translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa.
The novel looks at lives in a shabby Lisbon apartment building in the 1940s.
Usage examples of "skylight".
The drawling voice which answered filled the lobby, ascended to the green skylight far above, moved inexorably outward from the place of utterance to the balcony edges, thrust through the banisters to flow into the aisles of books, soaking each volume in turn so that the very bindings became redolent with that sound, not echoing but vibrating nonetheless in a reverberating hum larger than the building itself, a seeking pressure which left no corner unexplored.
Money saved, pennies pinched--instead of boarding over the old skylights above the dance floor, the carpenters simply enclosed them in closets, behind what were supposed to be closed and locked and bolted doors.
Morgue, with half a hundred gazing wistfully at them, and their fixed eyes glaring fishily at the skylight, as if it were the surface of the river and they were at rest below.
She pointed at the ancient jinker platform up between the gables and skylights on the roof.
The pavement is of fine oolite, or skylight, or some other stone of that geologic period, and is laid almost flat on the ground, in places.
Hiroko makes sure that the old lady is tucked up in bed with Tiddles the cat and Radio 4 and then she sneaks me up the stairs to a converted loft where a shaft of moonlight pours through the skylight and onto her single bed.
On its flat roof the forms of a dozen or more glazed skylights upreared themselves jauntily.
A giant daggerwing roared past, intent on some vital business, and Washen watched it vanish into the gloom, then reappear, tiny with the distance, its bluish carapace shining in a patch of sudden skylight.
Each one-room guesthouse has a wood-burning fireplace, homey furnishings, king-size bed with down comforter, and an enormous bathroom with a skylight and a deep, two-person Jacuzzi tub.
Under the partial shelter of an overtowering tree, he found a skylight set in a metal frame.
She looked up at the fourth floor and noticed that one of the big panes in the skylight had been broken.
The tiny skylight and a paraffin lamp hanging by a chain in the center of the mom afforded the only illumination.
The Bond Street man stripped away all the velvet and morocco, plucked up the Turkey carpet, draped the scuttle-ports with pale yellow cretonne garnished with orange pompons, subdued the glare of the skylight by a blind of oriental silk, covered the divans with Persian saddlebags, the floor with a delicate Indian matting, and furnished the saloon with all that was most feminine in the way of bamboo chairs and tea-tables, Japanese screens and fans of gorgeous colouring.
The skylight was of unfrosted glass, but was so covered with dust that it would be impossible for anyone looking up from below to detect that he was overlooked.
Nine skylights lit the place, through which patchy blue sky showed above unthawed snow.