different between sunspot vs sunshot

English

Etymology

sun +? spot

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?nsp?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nsp?t/
• Hyphenation: sun?spot

Noun

sunspot (plural sunspots)

1. (astronomy) A region on the sun's surface with a lower temperature than its surroundings and intense magnetic activity.

Translations

Anagrams

• unstops

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