What's the difference between starlight and starshine?
Starlight
Definition:
(n.) The light given by the stars.
(a.) Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiply the two and you have the velocity of a tsunami, or sound waves, or starlight.
(2) This increase in synaptic gain may compensate for the loss of rod light responsiveness caused by weak background light so that the animal can maintain good rod sensitivity under moonlight or starlight, the natural lighting condition for mating and food catching.
(3) "As soon as some Cruella de Vil in local government tries to seize and smother a library, the alert goes out, a starlight barking of tips about tactics and strategy: leaflets, posters, questions, the works."
(4) That was Northern Starlight, who won under AP over the Grand National fences.
(5) Every surface has a diamantine glitter, an effect accentuated by the starlight glow of thousand of smartphones in the audience.
(6) 5.43am GMT Prime Minister Tony Abbott meets with riders from the Starlight Children Foundation outside Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 27, 2014.
(7) On 7 November 1919, after a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society heard that British observations of an eclipse in west Africa confirmed predictions about the gravitational bending of starlight in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the Thunderer's headline graciously acknowledged a German intellectual victory : "Revolution in Science – New Theory of the Universe – Newtonian ideas overthrown."
(8) The type of device commonly referred to as a "starlight scope" will amplify available light by a factor of approximately 17 000.
(9) Natural lighting differs from usual artificial lighting mainly as follows: it has larger spectral composition, fluctuations of intensity during the day, higher intensity levels during the night (moonlight, starlight), and gradual changes of illuminance at dawn and dusk.
(10) This intensity range from effective darkness to effective light is roughly from starlight to moonlight.
(11) A military-type starlight vision system was used to conveniently analyze the pattern of gene expression in transgenic tobacco plant leaves.
(12) Top tip: Sunset, starlight and sunrise are particularly magical against the white dunes.
(13) By starlight, a single class of photoreceptors, the rods, function, whereas by daylight, three classes, the blue-, green- and red-sensitive cones, are active and provide colour vision.
(14) Space dust is heated up by starlight but re-emits the radiation as infra-red light.
(15) Where British theatre in previous decades had been famed for its writers, actors and directors, in the 1980s it became identified with its musicals – Cats, Starlight Express, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon.
(16) 6.28am GMT So long, and thanks for all the fish Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrives to meet with riders from the Starlight Children Foundation outside Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 27, 2014.
(17) "In the case of Kepler-20 e and 20 f, we were able to detect a periodic decrease in starlight smaller than 0.01% that occurred every six days for Kepler-20e and another periodic decrease that occurred every 20 days, for around two years.
(18) With his usual blend of earnest ridiculousness, he and his dancers scooted around the stage while also trying not to break their necks, the results looking like a vaguely futuristic Starlight Express revamp.
(19) As a planet transits, the starlight reaching Earth drops, so measuring the size of this effect can tell astronomers the size of the planet.
(20) With highly specific CT, the central, stellate ("starlight") calcifications that are pathognomonic of microcystic adenoma can be distinguished.