Pronunciations (2)
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/sʌn/
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/sʊn/
Pronunciation notes
- Ireland
- Northern-England
Proper noun
The star that is closest to the Earth.
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The sun rises.
And the cite hath no nede of the ſunne nether of the mone to lyghten hit. For the bꝛynghtnes off God dyd light hitt: and the lambe was the light off hit.
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"I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.
'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.
The ships would leave Europe in April, when there was a good easterly wind. Trans-Atlantic mariners wanted the wind dead on the stern, so they could run with it, sticking to the same latitude—a method called easting and westing. Columbus, Cabot, and many others had done this. Until the eighteenth century, there was no reliable way to measure longitude, which helps explain why so many could make landfalls from the Bahamas to Newfoundland and believe they were near Asia. Latitude could be fixed by the relationship to the North Star or the sun, one of the few things known in the sixteenth century about celestial navigation. Westing ships out of Bristol reached the Labrador coast and dropped down to Newfoundland. Bretons went straight to the Grand Bank and St. John's.
Noun
A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
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Because Haestrom's sun has overwhelmed the planet's protective magnetosphere, humans foolhardy enough to venture into geth-controlled Haestrom must exercise extreme caution. Minutes of radiation exposure will overload shields and hours of exposure will kill.
The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight.
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I have been broiling in the sun all morning.
Lambs that did frisk in the sun.
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His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.
The sun was on the old man's left arm and shoulder and on his back.
Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
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For the Lord God is the ſunne & ſhield vnto vs: […]
[…] I will never conſent to put out the Sun of Sovereigntie to all Poſterity, […]
Sunrise or sunset.
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Imo[gen].[…]Prythee ſpeake, / How many ſtore of Miles may we well rid / Twixt houre, and houre? / Piſ[anio]. One ſcore 'twixt Sun, and Sun, / Madam's enough for you: and too much too. / Imo[gen]. Why, one that rode to's Excution Man, / Could neuer go ſo ſlow: […]
[W]hileſt many an hunger-ſtarved poore 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 paine and griefe, is in great diſtreſſe 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.
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“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.”
A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
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A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
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Four suns since was the word brought to me from ‘She-who-must-be-obeyed,’ ‘White men come; if white men come, slay them not.’ Let them be brought to the house of ‘She-who-must-be-obeyed.’
The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
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The thirty-first Lenormand card.
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Verb
To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
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Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
There were lots of zany antics and we tried not to stare too obviously at the beautiful women toplessly sunning themselves...
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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.
To warm or dry in the sunshine.
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To be exposed to the sun.
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To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
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A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
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the rays of the sun
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the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind
a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc
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any star around which a planetary system revolves
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Verb
expose one's body to the sun
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expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun
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insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble
These herbs suffer when sunned