Moon vs Sabaism - What's the difference?
moon | sabaism |
The largest satellite of Earth.
Any natural satellite of a planet.
(literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.
* {{quote-book
, year=1737
, author=John Brickell
, title=The natural history of North-Carolina
, page=308-309
, passage=The number their age by Moons' or Winters, and say a Woman or a Man is so many '''Moons''' old, and so they do with all memorable Actions in life, accounting it to be so many '''Moons or Winters since such or such a thing happened. ''Note: in earlier modern English, many nouns were capitalized, similar to present day German. }}
* {{quote-book
, year=1822
, author=Thomas Love Peacock
, title=Maid Marian
, page=238
, passage=Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood.}}
A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
(colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest
(colloquial) (usually followed by'' over''' ''or'' ' after ) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
* 1898 , Joseph Conrad,
To expose to the rays of the Moon.
* Holland
The religion of the Sabians; Sabianism
worship of the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry; astrolatry
As a proper noun moon
is the earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by.As a noun sabaism is
the religion of the sabians; sabianism.moon
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (sense, Earth's largest natural satellite) Moon * (natural satellite of a planet) satellite, natural satellite * (month) calendar month, lunar month, month * See alsoDerived terms
* blood moon * blue moon * crescent moon * full moon * half-moon, half moon * harvest moon * howl at the moon * hung the moon * hunter's moon * man in the moon * moon bear * moon-blind * moon cake * mooncalf * moon-face * moonfish * moonflower * moon guitar * mooning * moonish * moonlight * moonlit * moonly * moon pool * moonraker * moonsail * moonwalk * moonwort * moon zither * new moon * old moon * once in a blue moon * over the moon * phase of the moon * smuggler's moon * thumbnail moon * waning moon * waxing moonVerb
(en verb)- Sarah mooned over Sam's photograph for months.
- You've been mooning after her forever, why not just ask her out?
- We were only three on board. The poor old skipper mooned in the cabin.
- If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned .