Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A crescent-shaped portion of a plane or sphere bounded by two arcs of circles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A leash: as, the lune of a hawk.
- noun Anything in the shape of a crescent or half-moon.
- noun In geometry, a figure formed on a sphere or on a plane by two arcs of circles which inclose a space.
- noun A fit of lunacy or madness; a mad freak or tantrum.
- noun Another spelling of
loon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Anything in the shape of a half moon.
- noun (Geom.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.
- noun obsolete A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak
- noun A concave figure formed by the intersection of the
arcs of twocircles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles - noun Anything
crescent -shaped - noun hawking A
leash for a hawk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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They'd memorized every type of being that made a planet what it was, just by piecing together Le'lune's stories of more developed planets, and by asking El during a talkative mood swing.
Archive 2008-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2008
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They'd memorized every type of being that made a planet what it was, just by piecing together Le'lune's stories of more developed planets, and by asking El during a talkative mood swing.
Core on a Cord Megan Arkenberg 2008
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5.8 Lunes and Triangles Begin by reminding students that a lune is a crescent-shaped fi gure
Recently Uploaded Slideshows sahmozac 2010
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See a picture of the dad, here, and read about the lune de miel that he offered our Braise ...
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See a picture of the dad, here, and read about the lune de miel that he offered our Braise ...
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Woven through several two- to six-minute selections (ideal for downloading from iTunes, yet cherished by violin fans) is the theme of night in multiple manifestations: The title track, a song by Claude Debussy; "Nocturne," by the ill-fated Lili Boulanger, who died at the age of 24; moonlight (Debussy's beloved "Clair de lune"); and dreams (Gabriel Fauré's wistful "Après un rêve," which Ms. Jansen plays with tender yearning).
Busy Violinist Seeks Balance Barbara Jepson 2011
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Le voyage dans la lune | Georges Méliès | 1902: clusterflock
The moon landing story they don't want you to know! The Nag 2009
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Face à ce paysage je suis face à l'Est; c'est donc l'occasion d'assister aux levers de soleil et aussi de pleine lune.
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Face à ce paysage je suis face à l'Est; c'est donc l'occasion d'assister aux levers de soleil et aussi de pleine lune.
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Face à ce paysage je suis face à l'Est; c'est donc l'occasion d'assister aux levers de soleil et aussi de pleine lune.
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