Crossword clues for sunburst
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunburst \Sun"burst`\, n. A burst of sunlight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A figure or shape showing rays radiating from a central point.
WordNet
adj. pleated or tucked in lines radiating from a circular edge; "blouse with a sunburst yoke"; "sunray fan pleats below the hips" [syn: sunray]
n. a jewelled brooch with a pattern resembling the sun
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Wikipedia
Sunburst is a style of finishing for musical instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars and electric basses. At the center of a sunburst-finished surface is an area of lighter color (often showing the wood grain underneath) that darkens gradually towards the edges before hitting a dark rim. Among the best examples of a sunburst finish are the Gibson Les Paul guitars and the Fender Stratocaster. It was originally intended to imitate an aged French polish finish, as applied to classical string instruments such as violins, as well as to enable the use of wood with less attractive edge grain on high-end instruments.
Some vintage mandolins made by Gibson actually had a burst style finish achieved with stain that was wiped on to the top of the instrument and sometimes the back as well but sprayed tinted nitrocelulose lacquer later proved to be a faster way to achieve a burst finish.
There are various types of sunburst finishes. Some common types include "vintage sunburst", which is golden yellow in the very center and black around the edges, "cherry sunburst" - sometimes disparagingly called "clownburst", which is a golden yellow at the very center and cherry red towards the edges, "tobacco sunburst", which is golden yellow in the very center and burgundy around the edges, and "three-color sunburst," which fades from golden yellow at the center through a layer of red and finally to black around the edges. The finish is often transparent in order to show, and accentuate, attractively-patterned wood or wood veneers such as flame maple, but may be opaque where the wood is not strongly figured, such as basswood or alder.
Other sunburst varieties over the years included "Sienna Sunburst" and "Blue Burst", first introduced by Harmon in the late '70s and mid '80s. The American Series Strat HSS and the Strat Plus guitars are fine examples. The British Burns company use greenburst finishes on a number of their guitars, such as the Steer and Scorpion.
There are also aged variants of sunburst finishes which are usually found on high-end boutique instruments from Fender, Suhr, Tom Anderson, Melancon, Don Grosh and James Tyler, such as Aged Cherry Burst, Fireburst, Lightburst and Antique Tobacco Sunburst. These aged sunburst finishes are mostly suited for quilted, spalted and flamed maple tops, as well with other highly figured woods such as swamp ash and koa.
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Sunburst is the name of two fictional Japanese superheroes published by DC Comics.
The Sunburst is a two-handed, centreboard sailing dinghy. It was designed in the late 1960s in New Zealand by John Balmain Brooke, where it was to become one of the most popular classes of boat. It is popular as a craft for teaching beginner sailors, and is actively raced in New Zealand.
Although designed as a two-person boat, a Sunburst can easily be sailed by a single person in light to moderate conditions using just the mainsail only, or mainsail and jib. The Sunburst is usually rigged with a mainsail, jib and spinnaker. Construction is of wood or fiberglass, with a minimum hull weight of 77 kg. National Regattas are held annually
Sunburst is an EP by English shoegazing band Chapterhouse. It features in the reissue of Chapterhouse's debut album Whirlpool, released in 2006. Sunburst contains a track produced by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, as well as a cover version of The Beatles' song " Rain".
Sunburst is a 1975 American film directed by James Polakof.
The film is also known as Slashed Dreams (American video title).
Sunburst is an album by American jazz trumpeter Eddie Henderson recorded in 1975 and released on the Blue Note label.
Sunburst is a graphic design term for the pattern seen in fanlights and other architectural elements.
Sunburst may also refer to:
- Airmass Sunburst, ultralight aircraft
- Sunburst (finish), a type of finish for musical instruments
- Sunburst (dinghy), a dinghy sailing boat
- Sunburst (comics), two DC Comics superheroes
- Sunburst, Montana, a town in Montana, United States
- Sunburst flag, an Irish Republican flag
- Sunburst Award, a Canadian science fiction award
- Sunburst (film), a 1975 American film directed by James Polakof
- Sunburst, the nickname of the 40th Infantry Division (United States)
- Sunburst (EP), a 1990 EP by Chapterhouse
- Sunburst (Magic: The Gathering), an ability used in the Magic: The Gathering card game
- Sunburst, a weapon in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Sunburst, a novel by Phyllis Gotlieb
- Sunburst, a common name for plants in the genus Pseudobahia
A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns. It consists of rays or "beams" radiating out from a central disk in the manner of sunbeams. Sometimes part of a sunburst, a semicircular or semi-elliptical shape, is used. Traditional sunburst motifs usually show the rays narrowing as they get further from the centre; from the later 19th century they often get wider, as in the Japanese Rising Sun Flag, which is more appropriate in optical terms.
In architecture, the sunburst is often used in window designs, including fanlights and rose windows, as well as in decorative motifs. The sunburst motif is characteristic of Baroque church metalwork, especially monstrances and votive crowns, and Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles as well as church architecture. A sunburst is frequently used in emblems and military decorations.
In information visualization, a sunburst diagram or sunburst chart is a multilevel pie chart used to represent the proportion of different values found at each level in a hierarchy.
Sunburst began as an intentional spiritual community in the late 1960s, inspired by an idea for self-sustaining World Brotherhood Colonies envisioned by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi and author of Autobiography of a Yogi and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship. It was founded and led by Norman Paulsen and in its prime one of the largest shippers of organic products in the United States. Founded near Santa Barbara, California, the Sunburst members believed in a holistic lifestyle based on meditation, living from the land, organic farming, and – to some degree – chastity.
Their religion can best be described as a mixture of mysticism, Christianity, and the practice of Kriya Yoga. The group later incorporated Hopi rituals and symbolism into their ceremonies. During their early years, they referred to themselves as the “Brotherhood of the Sun.”
Usage examples of "sunburst".
Mama heard that the Wizard was going to make a sky-dragon with light and pictures of Koru and the Bear and sunbursts and all sorts of things.
He realized that if he had any doubts about his being accepted by Sunburst and Lorica, he might have tried to do something special.
She picked up the spray can from the desk, stepped to the wall and swept the surface with paint until MARK RD joined his brother, both of them now hidden beneath a brilliant socko design on the white wall, a sunburst, a bright red ball of fire, an explosion.
The heavy air muffled the shod ring of hooves and flapped the fringed cloths of the banners: the crown an star o Tysan s toy blazon paired with a new-made sigil, a sunburst ablaze on a white field that Princess Talith had sewn to commemorate the alliance against the Shadow Master.
It was the shape he often used to communicate with Rainbow, the Zaarain construct that looked like a sunburst of multicolored crystals.
I unhooked my cloak and tossed it over a sunburst solidum, an antique religious symbol probably of sentiment, value to this old Ult.
The Makedones were close enough now for him to see the bright sunburst emblems on their black breastplates, and their lance-points glittering in the sunlight.
He wore the black dress uniform of his Celestials and a crescent gorget with nine assorted sunburst insignia picked out in glittering gemstones against black enamel, to represent the star-systems under his governance.
These collided, then exploded in a sunburst: first gold, then green, then iridescent blue dimming into silver, showering among the marble towers, clinging to the gargoyles and has relief flutings on columns and porticos for a single glorious moment.
Like the couch, the room was circular, topped by its soft sunburst of a ceiling, with smooth walls the pale blue color of harebells, and a floor set with a pattern of little squares of dark blue and silver.
The third machine, very unlike the other two in its massive, obvious immobility, was nothing more than a towering, coffin shaped leaden cabinet, surmounted by a great branching tangle of interlocking rods, wires, coils, glass and metallic sunbursts, from the midst of which a pair of straight, needle-pointed spikes thrust like great black horns.
When the glass sunbursts glowed with sudden light, his jaw sagged and his little eyes popped.
The luminosity playing upon the glass whorls and sunbursts intensified.
The luminosity of her glass sunbursts mounted, but the glow was soft and warm.
He passed stalls faced with turquoise Formica, fake brick, fragments of broken tile worked into swirls and sunbursts and flowers.