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Moonbeam vs Moonshine - What's the difference?

moonbeam | moonshine |

As nouns the difference between moonbeam and moonshine

is that moonbeam is a shaft of moonlight;webster's college dictionary , random house, 2001 while moonshine is (literally) the light of the moon; moonlight.

moonbeam

English

Noun

  • A shaft of moonlight;Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , author = , title = , year = 1850 , page = 70 , passage = A moonbeam pierced the heavy cloud! }}
  • Moonlight generally.

    • Synonyms

    * moon ray

    See also

    * sunbeam

    References

    moonshine

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (literally) The light of the moon; moonlight.
  • Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process is often conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.
    • They watered down the moonshine .
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter IV
    • “Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine. … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”
  • (colloquial) nonsense
    • He was talking moonshine .
  • * , 2012 interview.'>citation
    • "We forget what we have learned in the last 60 years. At university I once asked one of my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could I prove there was a force that could move continents, then he might think about it. The idea was moonshine , I was informed."
  • (mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see (monstrous moonshine).
  • (US) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
  • (obsolete) A month.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Wherefore should I / Stand in the plague of custom and permit / The curiosity of nations to deprive me / For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines / Lag of a brother?

    Synonyms

    * (moonlight) moonbeam * (illegal liquor) bathtub gin, bootleg, corn liquor, hooch, mountain dew, white lightning, coon-dick, coondick

    Derived terms

    * moonshiney, moonshiny

    References

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