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Definition of 'sun'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) sun
(often cap.) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth.

2.  sun
this star with reference to its position in the sky, the temperature it produces, the time when it is seen, etc.

3.  sun
the heat and light from the sun; sunshine:
to be exposed to the sun.

4.  sun
a self-luminous heavenly body; star.

5.  sun
a figure or representation of the sun, as a heraldic bearing surrounded with rays and marked with human facial features.

6.  sun
something likened to the sun in brightness, splendor, etc.

7.  sun
sunrise or sunset:
to travel from sun to sun.

8.  sun
Archaic.

9.  sun
a day.

10.  sun
a year.

11. (v.t.) sun
to expose to the sun's rays.

12.  sun
to warm, dry, etc., in the sunshine.

13. (v.i.) sun
to expose oneself or be exposed to the rays of the sun.

Definition of 'sun'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) sun, Sun
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
"the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system"; "the Earth revolves around the Sun"

2. (noun) sunlight, sunshine, sun
the rays of the sun
"the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind"

3. (noun) sun
a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc

4. (noun) sun
any star around which a planetary system revolves

5. (verb) Sunday, Lord's Day, Dominicus, Sun
first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians

6. (verb) sun, sunbathe
expose one's body to the sun

7. (verb) sun, insolate, solarize, solarise
expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun
"insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble"; "These herbs suffer when sunned"

Definition of 'sun'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) sun
see Sunn

2. (noun) sun
the luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000

3. (noun) sun
any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs

4. (noun) sun
the direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine

5. (noun) sun
that which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation

6. (verb) sun
to expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain

Definitions of 'sun'

The Roycroft Dictionary

sun
1. A giant spot-light, which from the wings of space plays intermittently upon a meaningless ten-twenty-thirty vaudeville show.

2. The root of all evil, the mother of all beauty, and the final tomb of all that is good, bad or indifferent.

3. A dyehouse, probably the first. (The sun was once worshiped as a divinity, but later the competition between gods and divinities became so strenuous that the sun was forgotten, hence his casual earthquakes, floods and other little reminders that we and our gods are only his gimcracks.)

Definitions of 'sun'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. sun
Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name was originally an acronym, Stanford University Network. Sun started out around 1980 with some hardware hackers (mainly) from Stanford talking to some software hackers (mainly) from UC Berkeley; Sun's original technology concept married a clever board design based on the Motorola 68000 to BSD Unix. Sun went on to lead the workstation industry through the 1980s, and for years afterwards remained an engineering-driven company and a good place for hackers to work. Though Sun drifted away from its techie origins after 1990 and has since made some strategic moves that disappointed and annoyed many hackers (especially by maintaining proprietary control of Java and rejecting Linux), it's still considered within the family in much the same way DEC was in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Translation of 'sun'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the round body in the sky that gives light and heat to the earth The Sun is nearly 150 million kilometres away from the Earth.
Afrikaans: son	Arabic: شَمْس	Bulgarian: слънце
Brazilian: sol	Czech: Slunce	German: die Sonne
Danish: sol	Greek: ήλιος	Spanish: sol
Estonian: päike	Farsi: خورشيد	Finnish: aurinko
French: soleil	Hebrew: שֶׁמֶש	Hindi: सूरज, सूर्य, रवि
Croatian: Sunce	Hungarian: nap	Indonesian: matahari
Icelandic: sól	Italian: sole	Japanese: 太陽
Korean: 태양	Lithuanian: saulė	Latvian: Saule
Malay: matahari	Dutch: zon	Norwegian: sol
Polish: słońce	Persian: خورشيد	Pashto: لمر
Portuguese: sol	Romanian: soare	Russian: солнце
Slovak: Slnko	Slovenian: sonce	Serbian: sunce
Swedish: sol	Thai: ดวงอาทิตย์	Turkish: güneş
Taiwanese: 太陽	Ukrainian: сонце	Urdu: سورج
Vietnamese: mặt trời	Chinese: 太阳
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