What's the difference between sunbeam and sunshine?

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.

Sunshine


Definition:

  • (n.) The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.
  • (n.) Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness.
  • (a.) Sunshiny; bright.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For now however, what’s left of their fan base are enjoying a rare burst of sunshine.
  • (2) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
  • (3) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
  • (4) Sunday sunshine saw dips for films right across the market, including for Oblivion, but the headline number remains robust.
  • (5) Terrorists will leave the country and go to Holland or somewhere, and there will be more days of sunshine and England will win a football match.
  • (6) The hypothesis that breastfed infants in Beijing, China, have low vitamin D status and that sunshine exposure increases serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) concentrations was tested in a randomized prospective study involving 42 healthy infants 1-8 months of age.
  • (7) But last week – last week … Last week there was a sudden burst of sunshine after weeks of sulking sky.
  • (8) In England and Wales the county boroughs with notably high rates during 1958-67 were mostly textile towns with cotton and wool mills, situated in the area recording the lowest average levels of sunshine.
  • (9) The grey economic clouds are occasionally pierced by a ray of sunshine.
  • (10) It followed an unusually wet August, which gave Next and other clothes retailers a good start to the new season but sales of coats and other winter goods have been tough since as many parts of the country have basked in warm sunshine.
  • (11) A sunshine exposure score, previously verified, was used to document time and body surface exposed to the sun.
  • (12) It’s Dougie Donnelly’s introduction (after 1.05) which makes it: ‘Let’s just enjoy it for a moment or two – Sunshine on Leith’.
  • (13) Roy Elis, Sunshine Hillygus,and Norman Nie calculated that Palin cost McCain four percentage points.
  • (14) Instead, he headed to City Hall, attending Mayor's Question Time to watch Johnson bask in the sunshine to which he himself had been accustomed.
  • (15) The patient had always avoided sunshine because it made her feel uncomfortable.
  • (16) As wind and sunshine are highly variable, electricity will increasingly flow intermittently.
  • (17) There were fans too, around 2,000 of them waiting in the sunshine, where a platform had been built on the pitch adorned with the trophies Casillas won during a 17-year career here.
  • (18) Besides possible ethnic factors, the relative rarity of interictal EEG abnormalities in Africans with grand mal epilepsy may be related to the larger amount of sunshine in the tropics.
  • (19) Yvonne Robertson, who had travelled from Glasgow with her district lodge, spoke of "an absolutely amazing day" as her red, white and blue glitter headband sparkled in the sunshine.
  • (20) We’ll leave you with this live stream of a rally in Miami: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.14pm GMT Santa Monica The Guardian’s Rory Carroll (@ rorycarroll 72) has been at an event in Santa Monica, California: After lighting up a Hollywood boulevard earlier in the day, dozens of women are dancing through downtown Santa Monica under glorious sunshine, drawing cheers, applause and curious glances.