different between sunlight vs heliotrope

English

Etymology

From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan l?oht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun +? light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n?la?t/
• Hyphenation: sun?light

Noun

sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)

1. All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.

2. (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
3. Synonym of sunrise.

Synonyms

• (light from the sun): daylight, sun, sunshine
• (brightness): hope, optimism
• (sunrise): break of day, first light, sunup; see also Thesaurus:dawn

Hypernyms

• light

Derived terms

• Port Sunlight
• sunlight is the best disinfectant

Related terms

• sunbeam

Translations

Verb

sunlight (third-person singular simple present sunlights, present participle sunlighting, simple past and past participle sunlighted)

1. To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.

References

• sunlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• hustling, unlights

English

Etymology

From French héliotrope, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (h?liotrópion), from ????? (h?lios, “sun”) + ????? (trép?, “turn”). See also Old English sunnfolgend.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?hi?li.??t?o?p/

Noun

heliotrope (countable and uncountable, plural heliotropes)

1. (botany) A plant that turns so that it faces the sun.
   1. (botany) Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species Heliotropium arborescens.
      • 1870, Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair

        As they entered now, it seemed a blaze of roses and carnations, though one recognized in a moment the presence of the lily, the heliotrope, and the stock.

2. A light purple or violet colour.
3. The fragrance of heliotrope flowers.
   • 1881, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

     ... he had always smelt so much more of heliotrope than of gunpowder.

   • 1906, O. Henry, The Furnished Room

     Ransacking the drawers of the dresser he came upon a discarded, tiny, ragged handkerchief. He pressed it to his face. It was racy and insolent with heliotrope; [...]

4. (mineralogy) A bloodstone (a variety of quartz).
5. (surveying) An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor.

Synonyms

• (Heliotropium arborescens): cherry pie, common heliotrope
• (rock): bloodstone

Related terms

• (direction): heliotropism

Translations

Adjective

heliotrope (comparative more heliotrope, superlative most heliotrope)

1. Light purple or violet.
   • 1904, Jerome K. Jerome, Tommy and Co.

     Lady in a heliotrope dress with a lace collar, three flounces on the skirt?

   • 1917, Zane Grey, Wildfire

     And following that was a tortuous passage through a weird region of clay dunes, blue and violet and heliotrope and lavender, all worn smooth by rain and wind.

2. Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick

     while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.

Derived terms

• (colour): heliotrope cyanosis

Related terms

• (direction): heliotropic

Derived terms

• winter heliotrope

See also

• Appendix:Colors