different between sunlight vs sunshot

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 sun +? shot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?n??t/

Adjective

sunshot (comparative more sunshot, superlative most sunshot)

1. (poetic) 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.

Anagrams

• Hustons, Hutsons, unshots