单词 | sundial |
释义 | sundial (once / 14756 pages) n WORD FAMILY sundial: sundials USAGE EXAMPLESIt was stamped on coins, engraved on tombs and inscribed on sundials, jewelry and synagogue furnishings. Wall Street Journal(Dec 16, 2016) The time on your wristwatch is not the same as solar time on a sundial. New York Times(Dec 07, 2016) It began where a spoked handwheel, rusted red, had been pressed into the dirt as if it were a sundial, a clock, stopped. The New Yorker(Nov 13, 2016) n timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial Hyper horologe, timekeeper, timepiece a measuring instrument or device for keeping time |
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