Moonlight vs Moonwake - What's the difference?
moonlight | moonwake |
As nouns the difference between moonlight and moonwake is that moonlight is the light reflected from the moon [webster's college dictionary , random house, 2001] while moonwake is the reflection of moonlight on a body of water. As a verb moonlight is to work on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night .
moonlight English
Noun
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The light reflected from the moon.[Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001]
(attributive) Illuminated by the light from the moon.[The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998]
Verb
( en verb)
To work on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night.Usage notes
In American English, to moonlight is simply to work at secondary employment;[Mish, Drederick C. (ed.). 1995. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.'' 10th ed. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.] in British English, it used to imply working secretly (i.e., not paying tax on the extra money earned), but more recent editions of some UK dictionaries no longer mention a difference to the US usage.[Treffry, Diana (ed.). 1999. ''Collins Paperback English Dictionary. 4th ed. Glasgow: HarperCollins.]
Derived terms
* moonlighter
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moonwake English
Noun
( en noun)
The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
- I was long puzzled to know why this moonwake always followed as I walked ...'' — Daniel A. Goodsell, ''Nature and Character at Granite Bay , 1901
- And they grew and brightened and gathered; and whiles together they ran. Like the moonwake over the waters; and whiles they were scant and wan, ...'' — William Morris, ''The Story of Sigurd the Volsung , 1922
- Mariners sometimes call the moving path of light leading to the moon the ''moonwake'' , because it looks like the white wash of a ship's wake.'' — The Atlantic, ''Word Fugitives , March, 2006
Synonyms
* moonglade |
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