Sun vs Song - What's the difference?
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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.
A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
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*{{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
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, title= (label) Any musical composition.
Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:This subject for heroic song .
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song .
The act or art of singing.
A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
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*(Benjamin Silliman) (1779–1864)
*:The soldier's pay is a song .
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song , and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
An object of derision; a laughing stock.
*(Bible), (w) xxx. 9
*:And now am I their song , yea, I am their byword.
As a noun song is
wave.As a verb song is
to shake out even.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 ----song
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(wikipedia song)Noun
(en noun)266
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song , the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,