Region vs Starburst - What's the difference?
region | starburst |
Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
A violent explosion, or the pattern (likened to the shape of a star) supposed to be made by such an explosion.
*2002 : Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
*:... his arm striking brick and the bottle shattering in a starburst of black ...
*2003 : Tim Cockey, Murder in the Hearse Degree: A Novel
*:A starburst of red exploded on his chest and he flew backward a good six or seven feet .
*2004 : Elizabeth George, Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life
*:... and another that creates a cicatrix starburst from her right eye to her temple. This scar is the result of an accident when she was ten years old, ...
(typography) A symbol similar to an asterisk, but with additional rays: .
(astronomy) A region of space with an unusually high rate of star formation.
(astronomy) A period in time during which a region of space experiences an unusually high rate of star formation.
:the Milky Way will see a starburst in approximately 200 000 000 years
(astronomy, of a region of space) To experience an unusually high rate of star formation.
As nouns the difference between region and starburst
is that region is any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons while starburst is a violent explosion, or the pattern (likened to the shape of a star) supposed to be made by such an explosion.As a verb starburst is
(astronomy|of a region of space) to experience an unusually high rate of star formation.region
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(wikipedia region) (en noun)- the equatorial regions
- the temperate regions
- the polar regions
- the upper regions of the atmosphere
- the abdominal regions