What's the difference between moonbeam and sunbeam?

Moonbeam


Definition:

  • (n.) A ray of light from the moon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
  • (2) Alternatively, the Rudd government's radical, sudden, forced resettlement of vulnerable people has made me so angry I shall additionally preference the Australian Magical Moonbeam party, The Coalition for People Who Look Like Cats or the Australians For Putting Melons in Their Pants party – if their refugee policies are at all critical of Labor's own.
  • (3) He was no hippie, but the “Moonbeam” nickname stuck.
  • (4) And Jerry Brown, who led the state before the crisis, was remembered, if at all, as "Governor Moonbeam", a kooky, distant predecessor to the baroque Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • (5) 11 Moonbeam Levels (unreleased, 1982) Prince once considered writing a novel.

Sunbeam


Definition:

  • (n.) A beam or ray of the sun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here, two sunbeams in the troglodytic gloom, they drink Starbucks, fire off emails, write books, and generally plan the next stage of the revolution.
  • (2) The Queen has been slightly over-lit, though: perhaps she had her own special sunbeam?
  • (3) Atlantic fronts barrel in, clouds tussle, shafts of sunbeams and great fat silvery pools of light chase over swelling seas to fields of infinite greens.
  • (4) Several up-down illusions involving apparent distance may well be due to these disparities, including (a) backward tilt of the apparent vertical and of the vertical horopter, (b) the 'soup-bowl sky' illusion, and (c) the 'diverging sunbeams' illusion.
  • (5) Yet, in the pitiless light of day, the plan collapsed like Dracula turning to ash in a sunbeam.
  • (6) That's because those first sunbeams are so shallow that most of the energy is absorbed by the atmosphere before they reach solid ground.
  • (7) An investigation was undertaken to compare the relative accuracy and acceptability of four of the least expensive and most compact units (Sunbeam III, Norelco, Lumiscope and Marshall).
  • (8) The best results were obtained with etretinate, either given alone or together with UVL (midrange sunbeam spectrum) or PUVA.
  • (9) I cut north-west, luxuriating in roadside hot springs Sunbeam and Kirkham’s, then passing Hells Canyon and arriving at Joseph – one of Oregon’s strong contenders for the alternative funky town title.

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