(n.) The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.
(n.) That which serves to direct.
(n.) Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the problem for Labour is their record on immigration is not exactly the cynosure of all eyes.
(2) As for the Papanicolaou smear, it can no longer be regarded as the "Cinderella of cytology"; it is in fact the present-day cynosure in the laboratory.
(3) Noting the presence of British actor Naomie Harris, the cynosure of all cameras, the recently separated Sexwale quipped: "I came alone, you know."
(4) This paper offers an analysis of visible saints as social cynosures as a means of exploring critical cultural psychiatric issues.
Polaris
Definition:
(n.) The polestar. See North star, under North.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite everything that has happened the established Polaris World sites have fared better than some of the recent arrivals.
(2) Local group Polaris Media is paying 559.3m kroner (£55.9m), which will raise net proceeds of £54.4m for Mecom .
(3) Margaret Thatcher ordered the missile system in 1982 during the cold war, to replace the ageing Polaris system – but it only came into service in 1994, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
(4) Gilbert unsuccessfully tried to sell old warships to Argentina and announced an expensive Polaris improvement.
(5) The Polaris Institute thinktank reported in December 2012 that 45 oil lobbyists had been allowed to work inside Harper’s government and that during the previous four and a half years, officials and ministers had held some 2,700 meetings with the oil lobby.
(6) That way the animals, who have names such as Madde, after Goss’s wife, Fred, Hugo and Polaris, can be followed to see if they’ve strayed into areas at risk of poaching or human conflict.
(7) The first submarines of the US’s Polaris fleet arrived at their new base in the Holy Loch a few months later, and came and went in relays until the cold war was over, overlapping for a time with the Royal Navy’s missile submarines that had begun to sail from their headquarters at Faslane, a few miles across the Clyde in the Gare Loch.
(8) In place of PM will be a repeated of the contemporary history show Document, about the Polaris missile, with an edition of Soul Music at 5.30pm.
(9) But five years on, the Polaris World holiday dream of sun-drenched apartments overlooking golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus has turned sour.
(10) The one that had just navigated a smooth stretch of road a few hundred feet long had taken 15 minutes to do so, and it didn’t really fit behind the wheel of the little red chrome four-wheeler, a sort of all-terrain golf cart called a Polaris Ranger.
(11) By 2010, Polaris World was forced to relinquish most of its assets – the golf courses and unsold properties – to a consortium of banks led by CAM Bank (Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo), the leading lender behind the Murcia building spree.
(12) While sales figures are still miniscule, hundreds of new cassette labels have begun over the past few years; her favourites include Suplex , Reeks of Effort and Sexbeat , which is releasing a Cassette Store Day exclusive by Polaris music prize winners Fucked Up .
(13) The BIOT was established in 1965 when Britain expelled the Chagos islanders and allowed the US to set up a large base in a deal that included cutting the cost of Polaris missiles for the UK's nuclear submarines.
(14) This mixed bill features two new creations: a trio by rising talent Alexander Whitley set to Adès’s Piano Quintet, and an epically scaled response to his Polaris by the magnificent Crystal Pite.
(15) When Britain prolonged the life of Polaris, engineers were dragged out of retirement to make new parts.
(16) They moved there after managing to get out of a Polaris World apartment "intact".
(17) The territory was established in 1965 when Britain expelled the islanders and allowed the US to set up a large base in a deal that included cutting the cost of Polaris missiles for the UK's nuclear submarines.
(18) The newest of the Polaris World resorts, El Valle, is perhaps the most surreal.
(19) The other states where minors under 18 are automatically considered trafficking victims and do not need to prove they were forced into prostitution, are Illinois, Kentucky, Vermont and Tennessee, according to the Polaris Project, which campaigns for stronger laws against human trafficking.
(20) In a handwritten "secret and personal" note he told her that when Harold Macmillan negotiated the deal in Nassau with John Kennedy to buy Polaris, the cabinet "ratified the decision and the agreement, but played no part in arriving at the original decision or in laying down the negotiating brief".