What's the difference between sun and sunrise?

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.

Sunrise


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Sunrising

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The investigators said the Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise had violated the 500-metre security zone around the platform and that it was carrying equipment whose purpose was still unclear.
  • (2) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
  • (3) This technique permits the preparation of ceramic jacket crowns made on Sunrise laminated precious metal alloy.
  • (4) As the heat of a desert sunrise bears down on the breeze-block walls of the Visión En Acción asylum, casualties and refugees from the most dangerous city in the world begin another day.
  • (5) Radiography included posteroanterior weight-bearing, true lateral, and sunrise patellar projections.
  • (6) The Leininger Sunrise Model can serve as a valuable guide to discover care meanings and practices related to the theory, and to provide practical and meaningful culture specific care decisions and actions by nurses.
  • (7) That same year, he married his partner, the French actress Sunrise Coigney, reportedly after she turned down his proposal once before.
  • (8) Russian investigators have raised the stakes in their battle with Greenpeace , claiming drugs have been found aboard the organisation's ship, the Arctic Sunrise.
  • (9) Oxford University accused of 'distasteful joke' over oligarch's £75m donation Read more The spy case and the attack on Sunrise involved the participation of Russian officials who are listed as gross human rights violators by the US Treasury in line with the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012.
  • (10) The maximum response observed at sunrise occurred when the concentration of calcium in the plasma of control frogs was decreasing; the minimum response, which occurred 6 h after sunrise, was coincident with a diurnal peak in the concentration of calcium.
  • (11) The maximum frequency is observed during the dark phase, the peak values occurring just after sunset and before sunrise.
  • (12) The activity of the slide at noon was 65% of the maximum activity (83 A) observed before sunrise.
  • (13) More than 20,000 people were at the ancient monument to greet the sunrise at 4.52am at the start of the longest day of the year.
  • (14) Columns of fighters carrying rifles, trucks laden with rockets and men in white wearing mock suicide vests were on the move through the former slum-turned-battlefield soon after sunrise in a futile attempt to beat the blazing midsummer heat.
  • (15) This begins shortly after sunrise at a temperature of 22 degrees C and a relative humidity of 100%.
  • (16) "The majority of people play by the rules, they work from sunrise to sunset and pay their taxes as much as they can.
  • (17) Twelve hour collections from sunset to sunrise showed that An.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yoga at Amouage It offers a yoga and surf package including two sessions of yoga a day (at sunrise and sunset), group surf lessons each morning, and afternoons at the beach.
  • (19) In a single experiment, lasting for 18 months, male and female quail were exposed to an annual cycle of artificial photoperiod synchronized with sunrise and sunset, and their plasma levels of immunoreactive retinol-binding protein (IRBP) and LH were monitored at frequent intervals.
  • (20) The all-inclusive programme is good value, because it includes riding, sunrise yoga, all meals (including four-course dinners) and an open bar.

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