sun
IPA: sˈʌn
noun
- The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.
- (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
- The light and warmth which is received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight.
- (figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
- (uncountable, chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.
- A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
- A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
- The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.
- A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
- The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.
- The 91st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- (newspapers) An English tabloid newspaper.
- A surname.
- (rail transport) The station code of Sunny Bay in Hong Kong.
- Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”) [An East Indian leguminous plant of species Crotalaria juncea, yielding a fiber.]
- Abbreviation of Sunday. [The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.]
verb
- (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.
- (intransitive, alternative medicine) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
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Examples of "sun" in Sentences
- It is not only cast away from the sun: it is really cast _by the sun_ -- shadow-like, although not of the nature of shadow.
- _There be delights_, _there be recreations and jolly pastimes that will fetch the day about from sun to sun_, _and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream_.
- The mountain sun is so bright that a Mendozan never leaves his house without sunglasses, and sun-loving grapes like Malbec grow better here than anywhere else in the world.
- At issue the reliability of common claims such as waterproof, all day, UVA UVB protection, even the term sun block, which the lawsuit says are exaggerated, misleading, and may give consumers a false sense of security.
- _Midsummer: _ With us, the time when the sun arrives at his greatest distance from the equator, or about the twenty-first of June, called, also the summer solstice, (from the Latin _sol, the sun_ and _sto, to stop_ or _stand still_,) because when the sun reaches this point he seems to stand still for some time, and then appears to retrace his steps.
- As soon, however, as the vaporised matter is expelled from the nucleus towards the sun, it is met by the centrifugal motion of the electro-magnetic Aether which proceeds _from the sun_, and this pressure of the aetherial waves on the advancing comet acts as a repelling power, literally repelling the vaporised matter from the sun, and thus giving rise to the existence of its tail.
- In a similar manner (from causes already referred to) the sun produces two tides of much smaller dimensions, and the joint effect of the action of the two luminaries is this, that instead of four separate tides resulting from their separate influence, the _sun merely alters the form of the wave raised by the moon_; or, in other words, the greater of the two waves (which is due to the moon) is modified in its height by the smaller (sun's) wave.
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