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Sun

noun

(often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.

the sun considered with reference to its position in the sky, its visibility, the season of the year, the time at which or the place where it is seen, etc.

a self-luminous heavenly body; star.

sunshine; the heat and light from the sun: to be exposed to the sun.

a figure or representation of the sun, as a heraldic bearing usually surrounded with rays and marked with the features of a human face.

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something likened to the sun in brightness, splendor, etc.

Chiefly Literary.

clime; climate.

glory; splendor.

sunrise or sunset: They traveled hard from sun to sun.

Archaic.

a day.

a year.

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verb (used with object)

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to expose to the sun's rays.

11.

to warm, dry, etc., in the sunshine.

12.

to put, bring, make, etc., by exposure to the sun.

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to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.

to run away hurriedly; flee.

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verb (used without object)

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to be exposed to the rays of the sun: to sun in the yard.

Idioms

14.

against the sun, Nautical. counterclockwise.

15.

place in the sun, a favorable or advantageous position; prominence; recognition: The new generation of writers has achieved a place in the sun.

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under the sun, on earth; anywhere: the most beautiful city under the sun.

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with the sun, Nautical. clockwise.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English sun, sonne, Old English sunne; cognate with German Sonne, Old Norse sunna, Gothic sunno; akin to Old Norse sōl, Gothic sauil, Latin sōl (see solar), Greek hḗlios (see helio-), Welsh haul, Lithuanian saũlė, Polish słońce

Related forms

sun·like, adjective

Example Sentences

Still, it looks as if he's going to enjoy his moment in the sun.

The parents were concerned about the safety of the park because the sun shines into the eyes of the pitcher.

Homer's epic glitters with bronze spears and the blazing sun.

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Still, it looks as if he's going to enjoy his moment in the sun.

The parents were concerned about the safety of the park because the sun shines into the eyes of the pitcher.

Homer's epic glitters with bronze spears and the blazing sun.

The sun seems to come alive with arcing loops that show magnetic field lines interacting above its surface.

It could even benefit them because the close hot sun roasting the planet is a major energy source.

Droughts and record-breaking heat have been giving the sun a bad name.

Also known as shade fabric, this woven material is useful as a temporary or long-term screen against hot sun and drying winds.

Side-by-side views of the sun two years ago and the sun now show what a difference a solar cycle makes.

The sun shone down benevolently on the people yesterday afternoon.

Smaller seminars may meet outside when the sun is shining.

But that is not the only way to use the sun to make electrical power.

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles continuously ejected from the sun.

The life-giving sun can be quite rough on genetic material.

They face south and are turned to follow the sun as it crosses the sky.

Sun tolerance of azaleas and rhododendrons differs by species and variety.

Here comes the sun and it's later than you expected.

IN the wake of warnings that sun exposure damages skin, many beachgoers have suddenly turned sun-shy.

Some have those special annexed sun rooms that are part of the deluxe line.

The problem is that the sun does not shine all the time.

So that is a pretty inefficient planet killing sun x-ray beam weapon… thing.

Cheap, durable, efficient devices are needed to generate a significant amount of electricity from the sun.

They may alter evaporation rates or their angle to the sun to stay near this temperature, which is ideal for photosynthesis.

All perform best in full sun or light shade and appreciate regular water.

The highest point of the sun depends on the day of the year.

These decimated systems offer a grim look at the fate of our own solar system when the sun dies five billion years from now.

We jumped out of the truck and watched the animals weave through the willows, the midnight sun glinting off their backs.

In the desert, grow plants in filtered light, out of direct afternoon sun.

The sun has a new spot, and it could signal the long-awaited beginning of the next solar cycle.

Astronomers have reported an apparent shortage of neutrinos coming from the sun.

Light afternoon sun is also acceptable and preferable in the desert.

If you were floating on the gaseous planet, and looking heavenward, the sun would take up nearly the entire sky.

In the desert or hot interiors, protect plants from afternoon sun.

Dramatic explosions from the surface of the sun can link up across hundreds of thousands of miles.

Prefer broken shade in hotter climates, but dark-foliaged kinds will take sun if well watered.

The sun could be a net for dark matter, a new study suggests.

Grows in sun or shade, but variegated types show better color in full sun.

Plants grow well in full sun but will also take light shade for part more add to my plant list enlarge.

Notice how the sun moves across your property and which areas are mostly in shade or in sun.

Houseplants require indirect light in summer, several hours of direct sun in winter more add to my plant list enlarge.

Purplish or bronze to bronzy green leaves, brighter in sun.

Must have sun to develop good color more add to my plant list.

Varieties with bronzy or metallic-looking leaves keep color best in sun.

Some species fuchsias have blooms that are smaller overall protected from wind and hot afternoon sun.

Plants will bloom in sun or considerable shade more add to my plant list enlarge.

Its red, tubular blooms practically glow when backlit by the sun.

Choose a site that gets plenty of sun and protection from wind.

Note that bronze-leafed varieties take on a deeper color in full sun add to my plant list.

After all, the sensation of sun on wet skin after a.

Some of my books are stinky enough that an afternoon in the sun wasn't enough.

He wanted to know how it could be that the planets orbited the sun.

And while the sun may not be shining too brightly or too long each day, there are plenty of solar-powered gifts and home.

Short-lived bursts of plasma leaping outward from the sun contribute to the mysteriously well-heated outer solar atmosphere.

Just as the sun allows our atmosphere to remain stable, so too can it destroy civilization.

Animals living in places that get a lot of sun have unique biological defenses.

Tolerates full sun in fog belt or cool northwestern gardens.

As the sun emerges from a long lull in activity, the star's emissions in the radio band of the spectrum have also picked up.

The main axis of the planet's orbital ellipse shifts each time it goes round the sun.

Earth-orbiting satellites may take a hit if the sun unleashes a megastorm, scientists warn.

They are created by the last direct light from the sun shining through valleys in.

Most extrasolar planets have been revealed by observing their host star, or sun.

All subspecies thrive in full sun or partial shade, with little water.

The sun is going down but there is no break in the heat or anything to hope for.

The temperature of the sun is such that it supports nuclear fusion that generates bright sunlight.

New telescopes and satellites have shown us views of the sun that we've never seen before.

Repeated sun exposure greatly increases skin wrinkling and may even lead to skin cancers.

The fact that the rooster crows before the sun comes up doesn't mean that the rooster's crow prevents darkness.

From a settee on a stage, as evening fell, he watched the sun set over the mountains.

Thus, they see the sun rise later and set earlier than it does for a horizon without obstruction, she said.

The ancients did not understand how the sun could set in the west and end up in the east the next morning.

All do best in hot, dry locations in full sun but will grow in light shade.

Especially if they are used to lying on the back of the sofa in the sun all day, and you want them to actually do something.

Using the sun for cooking reduces the need for the coal, wood and natural gas that power traditional stoves.

Previous work hinted that the sun and the earth¿s magnetic field might guide the monarch¿s migration.

The sun did not shine through for perhaps a year because of a killing cloud cover of dust.

Copernicus was certainly a brave soul being to first to declare that the sun had to be the center.

Using solar energy to generate electricity is not the only way to take advantage of free energy from the sun to heat your home.

It was kind of a cliché: the sun was setting and they were kicking up this pink dust.

The glazed bricks that lined the chamber glistened in the sun.

Solar storms are linked to twisted magnetic fields in the sun that suddenly snap and release tremendous amounts of energy.

Rainbows appear when light originating from the sun is refracted and reflected by small water droplets suspended in the air.

It was my childhood universe, where the rising sun found.

As the sun emerges from a long lull in activity, the star's emissions in the radio band of the spectrum have also picked.

It tracks the sun as it moves across the sky by steering the receiver at the focal point rather than the reflector itself.

Factors such as previous sun exposure, sunbathing and sunburns did not account for these increased risks.

Record-breaking heat has been given the sun a bad name.

Prefer broken shade in hotter climates, but dark-foliaged kinds will take sun if well watered add to my plant list.

His teacher made him start at daybreak, with sun salutations towards the east until he was sweaty and hot.

Watching the sun come up over the stones was an incredible moment.

Colored leaf varieties need a half day of direct sun for best color but can burn in afternoon sun in hot-summer areas.

Even areas that had seen a pale sun in the day could see no moon at all.

Lean up against a pillar as the setting sun plays games with the colors of the stone and the.

Astronomers expected the hottest point on such a planet's surface to face the sun.

Rain may darken the western rim while a fierce sun illuminates cloud towers in the center and a brilliant blue fills the east.

Best in full sun with regular water add to my plant list.

Most ornamental asparagus look greenest in partial shade but thrive in sun in cool summer climates.

Tolerates light shade, but has best form in full sun add to my plant list.

Plants will bloom in sun or considerable shade add to my plant list.

Most sasanquas tolerate much sun, and some will thrive in full hot sun with the right soil and regular water.

Striking in borders, especially where sun can shine through blades.

The holy grail of renewable energy is a solar power plant that continues producing electricity after the sun goes down.

Basking in the sun out of the wind is a pleasure for many living creatures.

As the sun sets, white pumpkins and potted white violas capture the fading daylight as no color can.

The following natives are sun lovers except where noted.

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World English Dictionary

sun (sʌn)

—n
1.	the star at the centre of our solar system. It is a gaseous body having a highly compressed core, in which energy is generated by thermonuclear reactions (at about 15 million kelvins), surrounded by less dense radiative and convective zones serving to transport the energy to the surface (the photosphere). The atmospheric layers (the chromosphere and corona) are normally invisible except during a total eclipse. Mass and diameter: 333 000 and 109 times that of earth respectively; mean distance from earth: 149.6 million km (1 astronomical unit)Related: solar
2.	any star around which a planetary system revolves
3.	the sun as it appears at a particular time or place: the winter sun
4.	the radiant energy, esp heat and light, received from the sun; sunshine
5.	a person or thing considered as a source of radiant warmth, glory, etc
6.	a pictorial representation of the sun, often depicted with a human face
7.	poetic a year or a day
8.	poetic a climate
9.	archaic sunrise or sunset (esp in the phrase from sun to sun)
10.	catch the sun to become slightly sunburnt
11.	place in the sun a prominent or favourable position
12.	nautical shoot the sun, take the sun to measure the altitude of the sun in order to determine latitude
13.	touch of the sun slight sunstroke
14.	under the sun, beneath the sun on earth; at all: nobody under the sun eats more than you do

—vb , suns, sunning, sunned
15.	to expose (oneself) to the sunshine
16.	(tr) to expose to the sunshine in order to warm, tan, etc

Related: solar

[Old English sunne; related to Old High German sunna, Old Frisian senne, Gothic sunno]

'sunlike

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

sun

O.E. sunne, from P.Gmc. *sunnon (cf. O.N., O.S., O.H.G. sunna, M.Du. sonne, Du. zon, Ger. Sonne, Goth. sunno), from PIE *s(u)wen- (cf. Avestan xueng "sun," O.Ir. fur-sunnud "lighting up"), alternative form of base *saewel- "to shine, sun" (see Sol). O.E. sunne was fem., and

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the fem. pronoun was used until 16c.; since then masc. has prevailed. The empire on which the sun never sets (1630) originally was the Spanish, later the British. To have one's place in the sun (1680s) is from Pascal's "Pensées"; the Ger. imperial foreign policy sense (1897) is from a speech by von Bülow. The U.S. Sunbelt is first recorded 1969. Sunlight is first recorded c.1200. Sunbeam was in O.E.; sunset first recorded 1390 (sundown is from 1620); sunrise is first found mid-15c. (sun-up is from 1712). Sundial is from 1590s. Sunspot in ref. to the solar phenomenon is from 1868. Egg served sunny side up first attested 1900. Sunroof of a car is from 1966.

sun

1519, "to set something in the sun," from sun (n.). Meaning "to expose oneself to the sun" is recorded from 1610. Sun-bathing is attested from 1600. Sun-tan (v.) is recorded from 1821; the noun is first attested 1904. Sunburn (v.) is from sunne y-brent (c.1400).

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American Heritage

Science Dictionary

sun (sŭn) Pronunciation Key

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Often Sun. A medium-sized, main-sequence star located in a spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, orbited by all of the planets and other bodies in our solar system and supplying the heat and light that sustain life on Earth. Its diameter is approximately 1.4 million km (868,000 mi), and its mass, about 330,000 times that of Earth, comprises more than 99 percent of the matter in the solar system. It has a temperature of some 16 million degrees C (27 million degrees F) at its core, where nuclear fusion produces tremendous amounts of energy, mainly through the series of reactions known as the proton-proton chain. The energy generated in the core radiates through a radiation zone to an opaque convection zone, where it rises to the surface through convection currents of the Sun's plasma. The Sun's surface temperature (at its photosphere) is approximately 6,200 degrees C (11,200 degrees F). Turbulent surface phenomena analogous to the Earth's weather are prevalent, including magnetic storms, sunspots, and solar flares. The Sun was formed along with the rest of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago and is expected to run out of its current hydrogen fuel in another 5 billion years, at which point it will develop into a red giant and ultimately into a white dwarf. See Table at solar system. See Note at dwarf star.

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Cultural Dictionary

sun definition

The star around which the Earth revolves.

Note: The sun is about 4.5 billion years old and is expected to remain in its present state for approximately another six billion years; it will eventually evolve into a white dwarf.

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Computing Dictionary

Sun definition

Sun Microsystems

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Bible Dictionary

Sun definition

(Heb. shemesh), first mentioned along with the moon as the two great luminaries of heaven (Gen. 1:14-18). By their motions and influence they were intended to mark and divide times and seasons. The worship of the sun was one of the oldest forms of false religion (Job 31:26,27), and was common among the Egyptians and Chaldeans and other pagan nations. The Jews were warned against this form of idolatry (Deut. 4:19; 17:3; comp. 2 Kings 23:11; Jer. 19:13).

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Idioms & Phrases

sun

In addition to the idiom beginning with sun, also see everything but the kitchen sink (under the sun); make hay while the sun shines; nothing new under the sun; place in the sun.