单词	sundial
释义	sundial noun sun·​di·​al ˈsən-ˌdī(-ə)l  : an instrument to show the time of day by the shadow of a gnomon on a usually horizontal plate or on a cylindrical surface Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web There are lots of fanciful touches: a sundial that can remove years from one’s life, a character in a red velvet smoking jacket who offers tea and sugar to his captive. Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022 Athletes inch around the bases like light across a sundial. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022 The platform, modeled after a sundial, is a community space that will be activated in various ways over the coming weeks, beginning with a jazz performance in honor of Juneteenth. Cassidy George, Vogue, 22 June 2022 About Time centers on 12 clocks created over some 2,000 years, from a sundial at the Roman forum in 263 B.C.E. to a plutonium time-capsule clock buried in Osaka, Japan, in 1970. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2021 Built by engineer John Yellott and architect Joe Wong in 1959 to honor Carefree's founder, K.T. Palmer, the sundial has a diameter of 95 feet. Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2021 His design was circular: a brick path, set in a lawn, that formed seven concentric rings winding toward a sundial in the center. Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021 When the first public sundial arrived in Rome, a trophy of war expropriated from Sicily in the third century BCE and mounted in the Forum for all to see, some Romans cursed it. James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021 When the first public sundial arrived in Rome, a trophy of war expropriated from Sicily in the third century BCE and mounted in the Forum for all to see, some Romans cursed it. James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021 See More Word History First Known Use 1555, in the meaning defined above Kids Definition sundial noun sun·​di·​al ˈsən-ˌdī-əl  : a device that shows the time of day by the position of the shadow cast onto a marked plate by an object with a straight edge sundial noun as in hourglass Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance hourglass clepsydra sandglass stopwatch clock chronograph timepiece timekeeper time clock atomic clock chronometer alarm clock water clock timer cuckoo clock grandfather clock watch
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