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Starry vs Starfield - What's the difference?

starry | starfield |

As an adjective starry

is having stars visible.

As a noun starfield is

a starry backdrop.

starry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having stars visible.
    • Starry starry night, Portraits hung in empty halls, Frameless heads on nameless walls, With eyes that watch the world and can't forget - a song about called "Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)"
  • Shaped like a star.

    • starfield

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A starry backdrop.
  • * 1996 , Celestine A Ntuen, Eui H Park, Human Interaction with Complex Systems
    • This paper describes continuing research on metaphoric abstractions in developing an interface that employs the starfield (the night sky) as its underlying metaphor.
  • * 2006 , Alex Michael, Animating with Flash 8
    • a classic space starfield effect that you can plug into your movies