moonlight

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.

   “Meronym: moonbeam”

2. isim The silvery colour of the light reflected by the Moon.
3. isim Synonym of moonshine (“illegally produced or smuggled spirits”).

   “Barter'd for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch'd spoils lie stow'd in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler's evening cart.”

4. isim Chiefly in to do a moonlight: short for moonlight flit (“an act of secretly leaving premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon; hence, any act of escaping at night”).
5. isim A picture of a scene illuminated by light reflected by the Moon.
6. isim A journey made at night when the Moon is shining.
7. isim An oratorical competition; also, a participant in such a competition.
8. fiil To do a moonlight flit: to secretly leave premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon.
9. fiil To make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League.
10. fiil To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night.

    “There are three individual rear seats. They all slide, they all fold, or they can all be removed completely, so that you can moonlight as a van.”

11. fiil To engage in an activity other than what one is known for.

    “Mr. [Jeffrey] Katzenberg, who moonlights as a top [Joe] Biden official and has worked with Mr. [George] Clooney on philanthropy for decades, reached out to him to see if there was an off-ramp, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

12. fiil Of a thing: to perform a secondary function substantially different from a supposed primary function.

    “Some proteins have a primary function of acting as enzymes, but moonlight by carrying out secondary roles such as signal transduction or transcriptional regulation.”

13. fiil Of a tenant farmer: to be attacked for not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League.