What is the difference between sunlight and sun?
sunlight | sun |
All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (figuratively, figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998
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, title= (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
The light and warmth which is received from the sun.
* Shakespeare
Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001
* Bible, Psalms lxxiv. 11
* Eikon Basilike
(chiefly, literary) Sunrise or sunset.
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*:whilst many an hunger-starved poor creature pines in the street, wants clothes to cover him, labours hard all day long, runs, rides for a trifle, fights peradventure from sun' to ' sun , sick and ill, weary, full of pain and grief, is in great distress and sorrow of heart.
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To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.
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, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.}}
To warm or dry in the sunshine.
To be exposed to the sun.
To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
Sun is a derived term of sunlight.
As nouns the difference between sunlight and sun
is that sunlight is all the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth while sun is a star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.As a proper noun sun is
the star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.As a verb sun is
to expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.sunlight
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(wikipedia sunlight)Noun
(-)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight . Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
Synonyms
* (light from the sun) sunshineReferences
Anagrams
*sun
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Alternative forms
* (sense) (capitalized) SunProper noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
Usage notes
* The Sun is traditionally regarded as masculine.Noun
(en noun)- Lambs that did frisk in the sun .
- For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
- I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity.
