Sunlight vs Sunshot - What's the difference?
sunlight | sunshot |
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.
Shot through with sunlight.
*1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 91:
*:Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about.
*1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 41:
*:Another revelation of impuberal softness [...] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.
As a noun sunlight
is all the electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the earth.As an adjective sunshot is
shot through with sunlight.sunlight
English
(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.}}
