Sun vs Dun - What's the difference?
sun | dun |
The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998
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, title= (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
The light and warmth which is received from the sun.
* Shakespeare
Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001
* Bible, Psalms lxxiv. 11
* Eikon Basilike
(chiefly, literary) Sunrise or sunset.
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*:whilst many an hunger-starved poor creature pines in the street, wants clothes to cover him, labours hard all day long, runs, rides for a trifle, fights peradventure from sun' to ' sun , sick and ill, weary, full of pain and grief, is in great distress and sorrow of heart.
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To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.}}
To warm or dry in the sunshine.
To be exposed to the sun.
To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
(uncountable) A brownish grey colour.
Of a brownish grey colour.
* Pierpont
* Keble
(countable) A collector of debts.
* Arbuthnot
* 1933 , (George Orwell), Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. 18:
* 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 102:
An urgent request or demand of payment.
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 577:
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 107:
To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
(informal) : (do)
To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
(humorous)
* Carrie Tucker, I Love Geeks
As a noun dun is
fortress.As a verb dun is
to close, shut.sun
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Alternative forms
* (sense) (capitalized) SunProper noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
Usage notes
* The Sun is traditionally regarded as masculine.Noun
(en noun)- Lambs that did frisk in the sun .
- For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
- I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity.
Derived terms
* everything under the sun * sunbath * sunbathe * sunblock * sunburn * sun cream * sun cure * sun deck * sundial * sundown * sunflower * sunglass * sunglasses * sun god * sun hat * sun lamp * sunlight * sunly * sunny * sun protection factor * sunrise * sunscreen * sunset * sunshine * sun shower * sunspot * sunstead * sunstroke * suntan * sunup * sun visor * talk about everything under the sunVerb
(sunn)See also
* aphelion * helio- * parhelion * perihelion * solar * sunnExternal links
* (wikipedia "sun")References
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* * 1000 English basic words ----dun
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(wikipedia dun)Etymology 1
From (etyl) dun, dunne, from (etyl) . Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Late Brythonic (compare Old Welsh dwnn 'dark (red)'), from (etyl) (compare Old Saxon dosan 'chestnut brown'). More at dusk.Noun
Adjective
(-)- Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.
- Chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Derived terms
* dun-barSee also
* bawn * durmast oak *Etymology 2
; perhaps a variant of din.Noun
(en noun)- to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun
- Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.
- ‘Frank's worried about duns ,’ she said as the butler went away.
- He sent his debtor a dun .
Verb
(dunn)- Hath she sent so soon to dun ?
- Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.
- Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now.
Derived terms
* dun letterEtymology 3
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See done.Verb
(head)- He dun''' it before and he '''dun it again.
- Now, ya dun it!
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See .Etymology 7
Verb
(dunn)Etymology 8
See dune.Etymology 9
Imitative.Interjection
(en interjection)- Has he allowed the power and the repercussions of the Death Note to influence his entire life? How would you deal with that power? (Dun, dun, DUN! Insert dramatic music here.)