visible radiation vs moonshine

moonshine vs visible radiation

visible radiation and moonshine both are nouns.

visible radiation is not a verb while moonshine is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
visible radiation	Yes	No	No	No
moonshine	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, moonshine is a hyponym of visible radiation; that is, moonshine is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than visible radiation:

visible radiation: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
moonshine: the light of the Moon

Other hyponyms of visible radiation include beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, candle flame, candlelight, corona, counterglow, gegenschein, daylight, firelight, fluorescence, friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, gaslight, glow, glowing, radiance, glow, half-light, glow, incandescence, lamplight, luminescence, meteor, shooting star, Moon, moonlight, starlight, sun, sunlight, sunshine, scintillation, streamer, torchlight, twilight.

visible radiation (noun)	moonshine (noun)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation	whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
	the light of the Moon

visible radiation (verb)	moonshine (verb)
	distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine

Difference between visible radiation and moonshine

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