different between lustre vs sunbeam

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?st?/

Etymology 1

From Middle French lustre. See luster (etymology 1).

Noun

lustre (countable and uncountable, plural lustres)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (shine, etc.)
2. (geology) The way in which the surface of any particular type of mineral reflects light differently from other minerals, which is helpful in telling minerals apart.

3. A glass ornament such as a prism or cut glass dangling beneath a chandelier; usually in clusters or festoons
4. (dated) A chandelier, particularly one decorated with glass lustres

Antonyms

• dullness
• lacklustre

Derived terms

• lustreware

Related terms

• lustrous

Translations

Verb

lustre (third-person singular simple present lustres, present participle lustring, simple past and past participle lustred)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin lustrum. See luster (etymology 2)

Noun

lustre (plural lustres)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (a lustrum)

Translations

Anagrams

• Ulster, lurest, luster, luters, result, rulest, rustle, sutler, truels, ulster

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin lustrum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?lus.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?lus.t?e/

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustrum (period of five years)

Related terms

• llustre

Further reading

• “lustre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lyst?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin l?strum.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustrum; period of five years
2. (figuratively) a very long time

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian lustro.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustre, chandelier
2. gloss, shine, lustre

Related terms

• lustrage
• lustrer
• lustrine

Descendants

• Russian: ??????? f (ljústra)

Further reading

• “lustre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

lustre f pl

1. feminine plural of lustro

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lustro.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustre; shine

Portuguese

Etymology

From French lustre.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?lu?.t??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?lus.t?i/, /?lu?.t?i/
• Hyphenation: lus?tre

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. chandelier

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lust?e/, [?lus.t??e]

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustre, shine

Verb

lustre

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lustrar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of lustrar.

Further reading

• “lustre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English *sonne-beme (attested only as Middle English sonnes bem, sonnes beme and also as beem of the sonne), from Old English sunnb?am, sunneb?am (“sunbeam”), equivalent to sun +? beam.

Noun

sunbeam (plural sunbeams)

1. A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
   • 1957, Rudolf Arnheim, Film as Art, page 90,

     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.

   • 2001, Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser, The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science, page 116,

     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.

   • 2008 (1952), Lotte H. Eisner, Roger Greaves (translator), The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt, ?ISBN, page 68,

     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.

2. (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.
3. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Curetis.
4. Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis.
5. (Britain) Synonym of sunshine (“ironic form of address to an inferior or troublemaker”)
   • 1987, Doctor Who (TV series), Paradise Towers (aired 5 October)
   • DOCTOR: You seem to be our best bet so far, don't you think so, Mel? Mel? Where's Mel?
     DEPUTY: No, no, no, sunbeam. You're coming with us.

Related terms

• sunbeamed

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