Sunbeam vs Sunshine - What's the difference?
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A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
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(Australia, colloquial, dated) An item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed.“sunbeam ,”
Any butterfly of the genus .
Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis .
The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001
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A location on which the sun's rays fall.
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*:Out again into the sunshine by the wide mouth of the Green River, as the chart named the brook whose level stream scarce moved into the lake. A streak of blue shot up it between the banks, and a shrill pipe came back as the kingfisher hastened away.
Geniality or cheerfulness.
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A source of cheerfulness or joy.
The effect which the sun has when it lights and warms some place.
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(lb) Used to address someone who has just woken up and/or is very sleepy.
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Open to and permitting public access, especially with regard to activities that were previously closed-door or back-room meetings.
Sunshine is a related term of sunbeam.
As nouns the difference between sunbeam and sunshine
is that sunbeam is a visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight while sunshine is the direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.As an adjective sunshine is
open to and permitting public access, especially with regard to activities that were previously closed-door or back-room meetings.sunbeam
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- I cut-in various other material to this; for instance, a shot of a rushing brook in springtime, with dancing sunbeams reflected in the water; of birds splashing in the village pond; and, finally, of a laughing child.
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- Similarly, the rays diverging from the sun will pass by you and converge on the point directly opposite the sun, the shadow of your head. All sunbeams', and thus all shadows, appear to converge there.Only perspective makes all shadows appear to converge on the antisolar point. But this point is also the center of the rainbow, so as you look at the rainbow, all ' sunbeams and shadows will lie along radii of the bow as they flow straight to its center.
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- I had frequently had to explain to cameramen that only in the early morning or late in the evening did sunbeams' fall from the window as flat as they were usually found in films. The sun being higher during the hours of work, another way of showing ' sunbeams had to be found.
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