moonlight
To do a moonlight flit: to secretly leave premises without paying the rent, supposedly…To do a moonlight flit: to secretly leave premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon.
» The moonlight reflected on the lake.
Das Mondlicht spiegelte sich auf dem See. — Manfredo
Das Mondlicht spiegelte sich auf dem See wider. — raggione
Лунный свет отражался в озере. — afyodor
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6 senses(informal, intransitive)To do a moonlight flit: to secretly leave premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon.
(Ireland, historical, intransitive)To make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League.
(informal, intransitive)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.
eine Nebenbeschäftigung ausüben, nebenher noch schwarz arbeiten, schwarzarbeiten
подраба́тыватьpodrabátyvatʹ, шаба́шничатьšabášničatʹ, халту́ритьxaltúritʹ
ма́ти підробі́токmáty pidrobítok, підробля́тиpidrobljáty
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.
(informal, intransitive)To engage in an activity other than what one is known for.
(informal, intransitive)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.
(Ireland, historical, transitive)Of a tenant farmer: to be attacked for not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League.
- work a second job, usually after hours
Examples
122 sentencesThe moonlight reflected on the lake.
ruЛунный свет отражался в озере. — afyodor
deDas Mondlicht spiegelte sich auf dem See. — Manfredo
Tom moonlighted as a taxi driver.
ruТом подрабатывал водителем такси. — odexed
deTom war nach Feierabend noch als Taxifahrer tätig. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom also moonlighted as a taxi driver.
Tom and Mary ate quietly in the moonlight.
deTom und Maria speisten stille im Mondenschein. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom has been moonlighting as an interior designer.
Translations
8 languagesOrigin
The noun is derived from Middle English moonelight, monelight, mone lyght (“light of the mThe noun is derived from Middle English moonelight, monelight, mone lyght (“light of the moon; (heraldry) pattern of moons on the field of a heraldic banner”), from mon, mone (“moon”) (from Old English mōna (“moon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”)) + light (“light”) (from Old English lēoht (“light”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)). By surface analysis, moon + light.
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Forms
moonlights, moonlighting, moonlighted, moonlighted| Base form | moonlight · to moonlight |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | moonlights |
| Present participle | moonlighting |
| Past simple | moonlighted |
| Past participle | moonlighted |
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Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle