(n.) The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.
(n.) A constellation south of Pegasus.
Example Sentences:
(1) MSF Sea (@MSF_Sea) 112 men, women and children are now onboard #Aquarius .
(2) The images’ meanings are not always clear and Boyko is in little rush to explain, but the names of his parents – Alexander and Irina – can be made out along with the Aquarius zodiac sign and, for whatever reason, Dracula.
(3) I'm a woman, black, from New York, Aquarius – these are things that create who I am.
(4) Steve Wilson SAU executive committee member 1971-72 • Polly Toynbee is right, those of us fortunate to have been teenagers around the dawning of the age of Aquarius should show solidarity with young people reacting to having their dreams denied by austerity ( Thatcher's children can lead the class of 68 back into action , 27 November).
(5) It said more than 112 men, women and children had been taken on board the Aquarius, a search-and-rescue ship the charity runs in partnership with SOS Méditerranée .
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This chart shows the stars visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Aquarius.
(7) Watch Metronomy's video for I'm Aquarius here People think Love Letters is going to be a big hit but Mount seems blithely indifferent to its commercial chances.
(8) We envisage that this algorithm, AQUARIUS, will be useful for finding solvent positions in electron density maps generated by protein crystallography and as useful starting positions for solvent molecules in computer simulation studies of macromolecules.
(9) This is the superb programme that succeeded Aquarius 30 years ago, and has been dedicated ever since to promoting the arts, whether it be fiction, biography, television documentary or studio performances such as the tremendous Shakespeare seminars of 1979.
(10) Libya is a vortex of chaos that is getting worse all the time,” Marcella Kraay, a coordinator with Doctors Without Borders, told the Guardian onboard the Aquarius, a ship chartered by SOS Méditerranée, last month.
(11) A car is waiting on the Tarmac to take us to the nearby Aquarius hotel.
(12) This ethereal eye in the dead of space is the remains of a star that once resembled our sun in the constellation of Aquarius, 650m light years from Earth.
(13) It's taking place at the quite down at heel-looking Aquarius hotel and casino.
(14) On the latter, Zrce beach is the focal point of the action, lined with open-air clubs – such as Aquarius Zrce , Papaya and Kalypso – with no noise restrictions.
(15) Tidy lines of classic blue-and-white or pastel pink beach huts called Calypso and Aquarius sit on sea defences at Chapel Point, a few miles from Skegness.
(16) Opening night film Café Society (Woody Allen, US) In competition The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi, Iran) Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, German) Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) American Honey (Andrea Arnold, UK) Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, France) The Unknown Girl (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium) It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan, Canada) Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont, France) Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, US) Rester Vertical (Alain Guiraudie, France) Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil) Mal de Pierres (Nicole Garcia, Algeria) I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, UK) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake.
(17) Three distant worlds that orbit a feeble star in the constellation of Aquarius are the most likely places discovered so far to find life beyond the solar system, astronomers say.
Capricorn
Definition:
(n.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.
(n.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Northern Australia plan aims to make region an 'economic powerhouse' Read more The forum followed the release earlier this year of the federal government’s white paper on developing northern Australia – the region above of the Tropic of Capricorn – and making it an “economic powerhouse.” The federal trade minister, Andrew Robb , said Australia had to focus on capitalising on change, and “the centre of gravity for global growth has moved ... to Asia” with a growing middle class.
(2) The sera collected from pelagic birds nesting on islands in the Capricorn-Bunker group in 1970 were devoid of any antibodies to the shearwater virus, while a high proportion of the sera collected from birds on the same islands in 1972 (one year after the isolation of the shearwater virus) had antibodies to the haemagglutinin and neuraminidase of the shearwater virus, some to a high titre.
(3) Thus the thermoregulatory responses observed in Japanese Brazilians may be largely attributed to the climate in their native places located on the Tropic of Capricorn.
(4) It forms part of the federal government’s development push for the region north of the tropic of Capricorn, which covers 40% of Australia’s land mass but is home to just 5% of the population.
(5) I grew up when there were movies like Capricorn One , where the guy gets out of this conspiracy and gets to the press and then it’s all OK.
(6) The committee will consider policies for developing parts of Australia that lie north of the Tropic of Capricorn spanning Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
(7) Capricorn Ventures, which owns Nando's in the UK, is promising to expand even further, declaring that Britain can support up to 400 branches.
(8) Aqueous extracts of 75 specimens of the xanthid crab, Eriphia sebana, collected from coral reefs in the Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, were assayed for toxicity to mice.
(9) Speaking of flight, in line with official Ukip policy, anti-aircraft guns are already in operation outside Gatwick and Heathrow, blasting all incoming planes out of the sky in case they contain Bulgarian immigrants, Romanian immigrants, asylum seekers, halal butchers, gay spouses, Capricorns, or people on an unfamiliar mobile phone tariff we don't like the sound of.
(10) All countries located between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn reported cases of yaws.