sol — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   D ſol re, one Cliffe, two notes haue I, / Ela mi, ſhow pitty or I die.

   Altri esempi (1)

   Ser[vant, i.e., Peter]. Alack alack what ſhal I doe, come Fidlers play me ſome mery dumpe. / I. [First musician]. A ſir, this is no time to play. / […] / Ser. Then will I giue it you, and ſoundly to. / I. What will you giue vs? / Ser. The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile ſol you. / I. If you re vs and fa vs, we will note you.

2. In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

Sostantivo

1. An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.

   Uso

   • storico

   Parole correlate

   solidsolidus

   Esempi

   This fellow, For ſix ſols more, would pleade againſt his Maker.

   Altri esempi (2)

   Moſt of their owne coines that I ſaw were theſe. In gold but one, which is their chiquiney: This piece doth much vary in the value. For ſometimes it is high, ſometimes low. When I was there, a chiquiney was worth eleuen liuers, and twelue ſols. Which counteruaileth eight ſhillings and eight pence halfe penny of our money.

   It was the fate of the grenadier company, to which I now belonged, to lie at Rheims, where I found myſelf in the utmoſt want of every thing: My pay, which amounted to five ſols a day, far from ſupplying me with neceſſaries; being ſcarce ſufficient to procure a wretched ſubſiſtance, to keep ſoul and body together; […]

Sostantivo

1. A former Spanish-American silver coin.

   Uso

   • storico

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   The Tobacco of this colony is ſo excellent, that if the commerce thereof was free, it would ſell for one hundred ſols and ſix livres the pound, ſo fine and delicate is its juice and flavour.

2. In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value.

Sostantivo

1. A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).

   Parole correlate

   Sol

   Esempi

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   I need to create calories. And I need enough to last the 1387 sols until Ares 4 arrives. If I don't get rescued by Ares 4, I'm dead anyway. A sol is 39 minutes longer than a day, so it works out to be 1425 days. That's my target: 1425 days of food.

   88,775 seconds = 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds / The duration of a synodic day on Mars, a ‘sol’

   Altri esempi (1)

   On sol 46 (March 11, 2004 on Earth), Opportunity gathered data on a cluster of blueberries and confirmed the team's suspicions that this area of Mars once contained liquid water.

Sostantivo

1. A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.

   Uso

   • physical

   Termini più generali

   colloid

2. A solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Esempi

   [F]or that they had nothing elſe to doe, […] haue coyned a thouſand idle queſtions, nice diſtinctions, Obs and Sols, […]

   Altri esempi (1)

   Where Hinderſon, and th' other Maſſes / Were ſent to Cap Texts, and Put Caſes: / To paſs for deep, and Learned Scholars, / Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers:[…]

Sostantivo

1. a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid

   Sinonimi

   colloidal solutioncolloidal suspension

   Termini più generali

   colloid

2. the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization

   Sinonimi

   sohso

   Termini più generali

   solfa syllable