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Erisnimet
- The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.
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Substantiivit
- (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
- The light and warmth which is received from the sun.
- (figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
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]- (chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.
Verbit
- (transitive) To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.
- (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
- (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
- To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
Esimerkit
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
- Lambs that did frisk in the sun.
- For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
- I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity.
- Imogen:[...]Pr'ythee, speak, / How many score of miles may we well ride / 'Twixt hour and hour / Pisanio: One score, 'twixt sun and sun, / Madam, 's enough for you; and too much too. / Imogen: Why, one that rode to his execution, man, / Could never go so slow.
- whilst many an hunger-starved poor creature pines in the street, wants clothes to cover him, labours hard all day long, runs, rides for a trifle, fights peradventure from sun to sun, sick and ill, weary, full of pain and grief, is in great distress and sorrow of heart.
- I love these sons of earth every mother's son of them, with their great hearty hearts rushing tumultuously in herds from spectacle to spectacle, as if fearful lest there should not be time between sun and sun to see them all, and the sun does not wait more than in haying-time.
- You see, the President has five jobs, any one of which would be more than a full-time job for one man; but I have to do all five of them between sun and sun.
- “Tomorrow at first sun.” Not being much of a morning person, she winced internally. “First sun?” “It is the proper time, when the flowers of the pohoroh first open to the light.”
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
- Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
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