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Gunshot vs Sunshot - What's the difference?

gunshot | sunshot |

As a noun gunshot

is the act of discharging a firearm.

As an adjective sunshot is

shot through with sunlight.

gunshot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of discharging a firearm.
  • The sound made by a discharging firearm.
  • The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun.
  • * The Hind and the Panther , John Dryden
    • For those, who are come over to the royal party, are consequently supposed to be out of gunshot .

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    sunshot

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shot through with sunlight.
  • *1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 91:
  • *:Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about.
  • *1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 41:
  • *:Another revelation of impuberal softness [...] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.