单词 | natural day |
释义 | > as lemmasnatural day natural day n. [compare Old French jur natural (early 12th cent. in form naturalz jurz; Middle French, French jour naturel); compare also post-classical Latin dies naturalis (early 3rd cent. a.d.)] (a) the period in which the earth turns once on its axis; = day n. 2a; (b) the part of this period when the sun is up; = day n. 1 (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > reckoned in different ways natural dayc1395 sun1491 nautical day1771 sol1976 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 82 Ðes frenkis men o france moal It nemnen un iur natural.] c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 116 In the space of o day naturel, This is to seyn in foure and twenty houres. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 239 (MED) A natural day goth his cercle aboute. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xlviii. f. 173 The Astronomers reckon their naturall day from noonetide to noonetide. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §10. 237 A Natural Day [is] the duration of an intire apparent revolution of the Sun about the Earth. 1890 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 685/2 They were still falling when the gray morning of the 11th came glimmering in... The natural day promised as inauspiciously as the calendar one. 1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xxii. 287 The whimsicality of the seasons, and the vast and ample variety of the natural day—all proclaim an antagonism to routine. 1992 Pract. Fishkeeping Mar. 73/3 The biorhythmic action of a natural day in the tropics. < as lemmas |
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