| 单词 | noon shadow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnoon shadow noon shadow n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [noun] > casting of a shadow > a shadow > specific contrary shadow?a1560 right shadow?a1560 noon shadowa1646 foreshadow1834 silhouette1843 a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 300 Of Oxford..the Sign-Regent is Capricorn: the Noon-Shadows are Heteroscian. 1807 J. Montgomery W. Indies (1810) iv. 63 Where the noon shadow shrinks beneath the sun. a1892 J. G. Whittier Hill-top in Poet. Wks. (1894) IV. 56 At last, our short noon-shadows hid The top-stone, bare and brown. 1999 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 21 Dec. (Sports section) 12 Because the sun is overhead at its southernmost point, it means that noon shadows in the Northern Hemisphere are the longest of the year. < as lemmas |
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