(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.
Sun
Definition:
(n.) See Sunn.
(n.) The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000.
(n.) Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.
(n.) The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine.
(n.) That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation.
(v. t.) To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(2) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
(3) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
(4) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
(5) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(6) A parent who took his anti-Page 3 campaign to Legoland and Wapping is claiming victory after the Danish toymaker announced the end of its two-year partnership with the Sun.
(7) He poses a far greater risk to our security than any other Labour leader in my lifetime September 12, 2015 “Security” appears to be the new watchword of Cameron’s government – it was used six times by the prime minister in an article attacking Corbyn in the Times late last month, and eight times by the chancellor, George Osborne, in an article published in the Sun the following day.
(8) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".
(9) It has emerged that Kelvin MacKenzie , who attacked the decision by Channel 4 News in his Sun column and called on readers to complain to the media regulator, did not in fact end up lodging a complaint himself.
(10) News International executives are also understood to have been testing the water for a potentially swift launch of a Sunday edition of the Sun as a replacement for NoW, which published the final issue in its 168-year history on Sunday, in conversations with advertisers and media buyers.
(11) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
(12) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(13) The media mogul said he had spoken "very carefully under oath" at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday, when he had said that Brown had pledged to "declare war" on his company in a phone call made at around the time the Sun came out in support of the Conservative party, on 30 September of that year.
(14) Then annually from 1985 to 1989, they received written recommendations about sun protection for a period of 2-6 years after the initial education.
(15) A sun protection factor (SPF)-15 and an SPF-30 sunscreen were compared with regard to their ability to prevent sunburn cell formation after the exposure of human skin to a standardized dose of solar-simulated radiation.
(16) He said the Sun was hugely profitable and had enjoyed a record year in 2010.
(17) Venus has a special place in the sun’s family of planets.
(18) This finding does not affirm the belief that protection of adult skin from exposure to the sun will reduce the risk from melanoma.
(19) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
(20) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.