单词 | colure |
释义 | colure[ kuh-loor, koh-, koh-loor ] / kəˈlʊər, koʊ-, ˈkoʊ lʊər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR colure ON THESAURUS.COM noun Astronomy.either of two great circles of the celestial sphere intersecting each other at the poles, one passing through both equinoxes and the other through both solstices. Origin of colure1540–50; <Late Latin colūrus<Greek kólouros dock-tailed, equivalent to kól(os) docked + -ouros -tailed, adj. derivative of ourá tail; so called because the lower part is permanently hidden beneath the horizon Words nearby colurecolumniation, column inch, columnist, column of fornix, column vector, colure, Colwyn Bay, coly, colza, colza oil, COM Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for colure
British Dictionary definitions for colurecolure / (kəˈlʊə, ˈkəʊlʊə) / nouneither of two great circles on the celestial sphere, one of which passes through the celestial poles and the equinoxes and the other through the poles and the solstices Word Origin for colureC16: from Late Latin colūrī (plural), from Greek kolourai cut short, dock-tailed, from kolos docked + oura tail; so called because the view of the lower part is curtailed Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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