(n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's a tribute from the historic Apollo theater in Harlem, New York City: Touré (@Toure) Photo: The Apollo Theater in Harlem remembers Nelson Mandela.
(2) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
(3) "Replaying the glory days of Apollo will not advance the cause of American space leadership or inspire the support and enthusiasm of the public and the next generation of space explorers," he wrote.
(4) Sure, America did it almost 50 years ago but with each passing year Apollo seems to have less relevance to the modern exploration of space.
(5) Haydock spoke to a colleague who was living on a boat, stayed there to see whether she liked it, then started looking on a website called Apollo Duck .
(6) The test protocol was identical to that used in the first manned Skylab mission and the latter Apollo flights.
(7) Measurements of urinary hydroxylysine glycosides indicate that considerable collagen degradation occurred during the reentry into the earth's atmosphere of the American astronauts of the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
(8) The postflight phase of the Apollo MEED mycology attempts to identify survival according to exposure to specific quantitative space flight factors, while the second phase of studies identifies qualitative change other than cell survival [57].
(9) On Saturday, the National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time will be performed at the Apollo Theatre in London, modified for people with autism, learning disabilities and sensory or communication needs.
(10) The Apollo guys , some of them hadn't had time to think about what this was going to be like.
(11) "Apollo 13 [the unsuccessful third mission to the moon in 1970] did not stop the space race," he said.
(12) Kate Bush plays 22 nights at the Hammersmith Apollo, London in August and September.
(13) On the Apollo missions, lunar dust got everywhere – the crews inhaled it and got it in their eyes, and it wreaked mechanical havoc – and on Mars the dust is even more problematic, because it is highly oxidised, chemically reactive, electrically charged and windblown.
(14) Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
(15) Tests were carried out on pocket mice to ascertain their tolerance to elevated oxygen pressures alone and to a combination of hyperoxta and heat in excess of that expected during the flight of the mice on Apollo XVII.
(16) Unlike the quick three-day Apollo flights to the moon, Ladee will need a full month to reach Earth's closest neighbour.
(17) Nasa showed how a stupendous goal could be achieved, amazingly fast, if the will and the resources are there,” said Professor Martin Rees, former head of the Royal Society and another member of the Apollo group.
(18) We constantly upgrade our phones, connect with each other through Facebook, pay our bills online, demand the most advanced medical treatments available when we get sick and drive cars that have more computing power than the system that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon .
(19) Global Apollo programme seeks to make clean energy cheaper than coal Read more The backers of the Global Apollo Programme , who also include Unilever CEO Paul Polman, economist Lord Nicholas Stern, MP Zac Goldsmith, former chair of the Financial Services Authority Lord Adair Turner and former cabinet secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell, urge the world’s nations to back the plan ahead of a crunch climate summit in Paris in December.
(20) Neil Armstrong , the Apollo 11 commander and first human to walk on the moon, died last August.
Olympian
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Olympic
Example Sentences:
(1) [In 2014 I saw two Oscars … one was this super-Olympian, very successful, who seemed totally in control and even physically tall with his prostheses.
(2) I also have a son who is a show-jumping pupil at an Olympian's academy and my youngest son, still at school, wants to be a tree surgeon.
(3) In one photograph displayed on TV monitors in the courtroom, spots of blood were seen next to some of the trophies won by the double-amputee Olympian and multiple Paralympic champion.
(4) Around 160 will take part including 30 Olympians and seven Olympic medallists.
(5) An intriguing merging between Olympian and local deities had occurred (the Romans being relaxed and pragmatic about that kind of thing, unless the Christians were involved).
(6) Some of the 52 Olympians, with dozens of medals between them and including 12 Sochi competitors, have also criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and multinational sponsors for not doing more to force Vladimir Putin's administration to scale back the legislation.
(7) Nineteen Olympic golds (23 medals in total) confirm him as the most decorated Olympian of all time, which presumably now affords him a spot on Mount Rushmore.
(8) That "pocket of calm" is every Olympian's holy grail.
(9) My favourite Coe moment of the past fortnight was seeing the Olympian in Chief held in a queue behind the back of the stands before the start of the triathlon by a super-efficient volunteer on the "Olympic Family" gate.
(10) Now let’s see how the two-time Olympic gold medal winner compares to other Olympians.
(11) If an appeal court found him guilty of murder, the former Olympian could face at least 15 years in prison.
(12) Inspired by Jack London's 1903 book People of the Abyss about how imperial London treated its East End poor, Lindqvist reflects on the same subject a century on as the capital of imperial shame postures and struts Olympian.
(13) For most of Britain’s two-wheeled Olympians this has been a stressful week, with the resignation of British Cycling’s technical director, Shane Sutton , but unlike her colleague on the track squad, Armitstead will be barely affected.
(14) This is a culture where Holger Osieck, the manager of the Australian football team, can say "women should shut up in public "; where the former boxing world champion Amir Khan can warn female boxers, "When you get hit it can be very painful" ; and where the American network NBC can air a slow-motion montage of female athletes wobbling, like Olympians who have wandered, obliviously, into porn.
(15) Before these Olympics began, there were one or two articles and features about Pindar, how in Athens he earned his living singing odes to the great Olympians, so their names would live down the decades and centuries.
(16) February 15, 2013 9.44am GMT A police officer holds a gun that was allegedly used in the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend of Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius.
(17) ThreatConnect’s Toni Gidwani, formerly of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Guardian that the breach came after the revelation of widespread cheating by Russian Olympians.
(18) Roux was trying to reinforce the Olympian's story that he shot the model by mistake on 14 February 2013 and then desperately broke through a locked toilet door to help her.
(19) The Hatfield Olympian had operated at the best available level domestically, but Lee, seasoned during a long spell in America under the late Manny Steward, had elite-level experience and a track record of resilience.
(20) It had obviously been a harrowing experience, one of Pachauri's senior associates told me, but he never lost his Olympian calm or his warm collegiality, turning out every weekend as usual -- at the age of 70 -- to play for TERI's redoubtable cricket team.