Timeline for Is There a Word for the Spot on the Floor at the end of a Sunbeam?
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| Mar 5, 2021 at 21:11 | answer | added | Mattia | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 5, 2021 at 20:18 | answer | added | Rorschach | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 17:57 | answer | added | Bread | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 1, 2016 at 14:10 | vote | accept | Bob Kaufman | ||
| Nov 1, 2016 at 3:53 | comment | added | Vishnoo Rath | Spotlight. That's me in the Spotlight, loosing my religion. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 3:05 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I would generally call the spot a sunbeam or moonbeam. When people use those terms they are quite often referring to the "spot" produced, vs the (invisible) beam of light moving through the atmosphere. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 1:53 | answer | added | Cord | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 1:38 | comment | added | Cord | @tchrist None of those had anything to do with this question. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 1:35 | comment | added | sanpaco | Shadow is just another word for darkness. The opposite of a shadow would be a ray or beam of light. Technically there's not a word for "the spot on the floor where a shadow falls" so I wouldn't expect there to be an antonym. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 18:43 | comment | added | herisson | @BoldBen: I think he's saying it's just the outline of the window, making a very clear, crisp patch of light on the opposite wall. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 18:15 | comment | added | BoldBen | Are you saying that there's a specific spot of light which looks like a picture of the moon? That's not how sunlight and moonlight normally appear, something must be focussing it. Do you have a piece of feature glass in the window, a glass pendant hanging in the window or some sort of hole somewhere which could act as a pinhole camera? If that's the case you would call the spot an image of the moon. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 17:05 | history | edited | Bob Kaufman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
More explanation, some context
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| Oct 27, 2016 at 16:32 | comment | added | Bob Kaufman | @RichardKayser - see my edit. I'm asking about the light. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 16:31 | history | edited | Bob Kaufman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Responded to questions
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| Oct 27, 2016 at 8:58 | comment | added | BoldBen | A pool of light? | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 8:17 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/791554507410989056 | ||
| Oct 27, 2016 at 5:16 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | @PeterPoint You're fun. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 5:15 | comment | added | Peter Point | @RichardKayser Quite so, Rich. Quite so! | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 3:48 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | Re the question. Is about the light or the shadow? I can't tell. The question seems to be about the former, the question body about the latter. Please clarify before my friend @PeterPoint spews out another song or provocative quote of some sort. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 3:44 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | @PeterPoint What? Crock of gold? I'd opt for pot every time! What? | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 1:36 | comment | added | Peter Point | @Mick I feel a song coming coming on... Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high; There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby; Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue; And you'll find my old chum Kayzer, counting out his... ill gotten gains. ...........He's the blighter who filched the crock, don't ya know? Apologies to Judy Garland and anyone else out there reading this tomfoolery. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 1:26 | comment | added | Mick | @PeterPoint I discovered in my youth that some blighter has stolen it. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 1:23 | comment | added | Peter Point | "The Spot on the Floor at the End of a Rainbow is called the Crock of Gold". | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 1:02 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Related and possible duplicates: english.stackexchange.com/q/127189 english.stackexchange.com/q/159198 english.stackexchange.com/q/95334 english.stackexchange.com/q/185891 english.stackexchange.com/q/267113 english.stackexchange.com/q/178809 english.stackexchange.com/q/294429 english.stackexchange.com/q/316995 english.stackexchange.com/q/299720 english.stackexchange.com/q/127266 english.stackexchange.com/q/127145 english.stackexchange.com/q/192609 english.stackexchange.com/q/227855 et cetera. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 0:44 | comment | added | Elliott Frisch | A spot that is lit? | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 0:35 | history | asked | Bob Kaufman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |