nighttime
The heat is much worse in the daytime.白天天气要炎热得多。
Our cat likes to sleep in the daytime and go out at night.
Can you give us a phone number for contacting you during the daytime, please?
It's so dark and gloomy today it hardly seems like daytime at all, does it?
I'd prefer a flight that leaves in the daytime, as I'll have young children with me.

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Days & times of day
afternoon
afternoons
all day
am
arvo
high noon
hour
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daytime | American Dictionary

daytime
noun[ U ]
us/ˈdeɪ·tɑɪm/
the period of each day when the sun is up and there is light

Examples of daytime

daytime
For 5 or 6 weeks, each organiser remains in the one locality in the daytime working in the school, in the evening teaching teachers.
Among other sleep disorders, four patients noticed difficulties in falling asleep in each group, and one patient had excessive daytime sleepiness in the modafinil group.
During the daytime mostly unstable conditions were prominent, while conditions during night hours varied from light stable to stable.
The variation reflects the heating of the surface during the daytime, leading to convective currents pushing the mixing height upwards.
None of the surrogate-reared rhesus infants exhibited the normal diurnal decrease in cortisol over the daytime hours.
The number of females collected per trap-night was compared with that of daytime indoor resting, outdoor resting, indoor man-landing and outdoor man-landing collections.
During the 2000 and 2004 primary and general presidential election campaigns, virtually all candidates appeared on daytime and late-night, entertainment-oriented talk shows.
The dark glass and the dark wood are sort of the same during the daytime.
At such times, temperatures at the centre site frequently exceeded that of ambient air temperature during daytime hours.
Chaotic or unpredictable schedules might be one factor contributing to the blunted daytime pattern noted for some populations of children.
And then, she has a babysitter for the daytime.
Most of the collecting was done during the daytime.
Moreover, those agents that are successful at eliminating daytime anxiety do not always suppress negative dream experiences.
Levels were particularly low in the early morning and were lowest for the neglected infants, who also had the flattest pattern of daytime cortisol production.
Most foster infants (less than 24 months of age) showed high, rather than low, daytime cortisol production.
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Collocations withdaytime

daytime

These are words often used in combination with daytime.

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daytime activity
Evidence for improving sleep hygiene by increasing daytimeactivity and light exposure can be generalized to patients with dementia.
daytime drama
Since then, the award has honored the performances of the entire directing team participating in a form of a daytimedrama.
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