Moon

[muːn] or [mun]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) any natural satellite of a planet; 'Jupiter has sixteen moons'.

(noun.) the natural satellite of the Earth; 'the average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers'; 'men first stepped on the moon in 1969'.

(noun.) any object resembling a moon; 'he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light'; 'the clock had a moon that showed various phases'.

(noun.) United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920).

(verb.) expose one's buttocks to; 'moon the audience'.

(verb.) be idle in a listless or dreamy way.

整理:胡安妮塔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.

(n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

(n.) The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.

(n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

(v. t.) To expose to the rays of the moon.

(v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.

校對:索尼亚

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Satellite, secondary planet.

錄入:洛根

解釋/意思:

n. the secondary planet or satellite which revolves round the earth monthly shining with reflected light: a satellite revolving about any other planet; a month: anything in the shape of a moon or crescent: (fort.) a crescent-shaped outwork.—v.t. to adorn with moons or crescents.—v.i. to wander about or gaze vacantly at anything.—n. Moon′beam a beam of light from the moon.—adj. Moon′-blind dim-sighted purblind.—ns. Moon′calf a monster a deformed creature: a dolt.—n.pl. Moon′-culminā′tions times of culmination of the limb of the moon with certain neighbouring stars formerly used in determining longitude.—adj. Mooned of or like the moon: having the figure of the moon marked upon it.—ns. Moon′er one who moons about; Moon′eye a disease affecting horses' eyes: a name of several American fishes; Moon′face a full round face—a point of beauty in the East.—adj. Moon′faced.—ns. Moon′-fish a name applied to various fishes; Moon′-flower the ox-eye daisy; Moon′-glade the track of moonlight on water.—adj. Moon′ish like the moon: variable: inconstant.—n. Moon′-knife a crescent-shaped knife used by leather-workers in shaving off the fleshy parts of skins.—adj. Moon′less destitute of moonlight.—n. Moon′light the light of the moon—sunlight reflected from the moon's surface.—adj. lighted by the moon: occurring during moonlight.—ns. Moon′lighter one of a band of cowardly ruffians in Ireland who committed agrarian outrages by night about 1880: a moonshiner; Moon′lighting.—adjs. Moon′lit lit or illumined by the moon; Moon′-loved loved by the moon.—ns. Moon′-mad′ness lunacy supposed to be caused by sleeping in full moonlight; Moon′-rak′er a silly person; Moon′-rak′ing the following of crazy fancies; Moon′-sail a small sail sometimes carried above the sky-scraper; Moon′-set the setting of the moon; Moon′shine the shining of the moon: (fig.) show without reality: poached eggs with sauce: a month: (U.S.) smuggled spirits; Moon′shiner a smuggler or illicit distiller of spirits.—adj. Moon′shiny lighted by the moon: visionary unreal.—n. Moon′-stone a variety of feldspar presenting a pearly reflection from within.—adj. Moon′struck affected by the moon lunatic crazed.—n. Moon′wort any fern of the genus Botrychium.—adj. Moon′y relating to or like the moon or a crescent bearing a crescent: round as a shield: like moonlight lighted by the moon: silly: sickly: tipsy.—n. a noodle.—Moonlight flitting a removal of one's furniture &c. during night to prevent it being seized for rent or debt.

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