Solar vs Sunly - What's the difference?
solar | sunly |
Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence.
(astrology, obsolete) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
* Dryden
Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
* Francis Bacon
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, title= (obsolete) A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.
* 1874 , Lew Wallace, The fair God :
* 1907 , Harper's magazine:
* 2001 , Carl M. Franklin, Carolyn Craig Franklin: Favorite Poems, Quotes and Hymns :
(by extension in contrast with moonly) Sane.
* 1964 , Norman Friedman, E. E. Cummings; the growth of a writer :
In a sunly manner.
* 1863 , James Wallis, David King, The British millennial harbinger :
As a verb solar
is .As an adjective sunly is
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the sun; solar.As an adverb sunly is
in a sunly manner.solar
English
Etymology 1
From Late (etyl) solar, from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- and proud beside, as solar people are
- They denominate some herbs solar , and some lunar.
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar' plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is ' solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Synonyms
* (l)See also
* dayEtymology 2
From (etyl) solar, soler; from a conflation of (etyl) soler, . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)External links
* * *Anagrams
* ----sunly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Aside he flung his sunly symbols. Like a falling star, from the Vale of Gods He dropp'd, like a falling star shot through the Shoreless space; like a golden morning reach'd The earth, —reach'd the lake.
- "Nay, The sun is single, but her eyes are twain, — Twain firmaments that mock with heavenlier hue The heavens' less lordly and less gracious blue, And lit with sunlier sunlight through and through."
- She agreed with Mark Twain that it "is the peacefulest, restfulest, sunliest , balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge [...] the surface of the earth can offer."
- [...] than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky [...]
Adverb
(en-adv)- Hopes that beam the sunliest , Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]