(n.) The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.
(n.) One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Runner-up: RISC edible roof garden and alternative kitchen garden Jupiter Big Idea Winner: Naturepaint Naturepaint is a totally natural paint product that comes in a powder form.
(2) "They will drift apart after a couple of days but Jupiter will be visible for at least another two weeks."
(3) After the Trump campaign and Trump supporters repeatedly insisted Fields was lying, she filed a report with local police in Jupiter, Florida.
(4) Mail shots • The Royal Mail handles 75,000,000 items of post every day • Collects from 113,000 different points • Delivers to 28,000,000 addresses • Has 33,000 vehicles using 135,000,000 litres of diesel a year • Has an annual road mileage equivalent to a return trip to Jupiter • Has 12,000 retail outlets • Has annual carbon dioxide emissions of just under 1m tonnes a year, about 0.15% of all UK emissions • Has an annual electricity consumption that would power 112,000 homes • Produces annual landfill waste equivalent to over 2,200 buses • Has an annual water consumption equivalent to 28 litres for every person in the UK
(5) The last thing anyone wants to see is a conga line of pot-bellied fortysomethings drinking Red Stripe on Jupiter.
(6) The past few months alone have seen the box office failure of Disney’s Tomorrowland and the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending, despite the presence of A-listers such as George Clooney, Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis on the cast lists.
(7) If they were, it might make sense to go on to an asteroid or one of the moons of Jupiter, but they're not.
(8) Consideration is given of the mechanism for the formation of some of the products and implications regarding planetary atmosphere chemistry, particularly that of Jupiter, are explored.
(9) There could be life in the ice-covered oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa.
(10) In ancient myth, Jupiter took the form of a swan to seduce Leda.
(11) Nights are a chillier story with frost likely by midweek, and clear skies in which the apparent cosying-up of Jupiter and Venus is currently a striking sight.
(12) After inoculation of roots, followed by constant conditions of incubation of the Meteor and Jupiter cultivars having their origin at the Plant-breeding Station at Luzany u Prestic, the isolates caused various symptoms of disease, each isolate showed a different degree of pathogenity.
(13) They have sent back images of Saturn's rings, Jupiter's red spot and sulphur volcanoes on its moons Europa and Io, and of "winter" on Uranus.
(14) Ian Fogg, senior analyst at Jupiter Research, said that as well as mobile communications, Apple is pushing forward in areas such as home entertainment.
(15) They could be iron-rich like Mercury, or mostly silicate rocks, or extremely icy, like the moons of Jupiter,” said Gillon.
(16) Here's the full piece: Just say no to drug giants - AstraZeneca did the right thing 11.09am BST Here's the full quotes from disgruntled Jupiter fund manager, Alastair Gunn : "We are disappointed the board of AstraZeneca has rejected Pfizer’s latest offer so categorically.
(17) "I'd really love to put a lander on the surface of Europa, the moon of Jupiter, that we feel is a place in the solar system most likely to have life.
(18) On Tuesday, police in Jupiter, Florida, charged the aide with simple battery after Lewandowski was accused by a reporter for a pro-Trump rightwing website of forcefully grabbing her at a rally.
(19) Robert Peston (@Peston) More than a quarter of all Royal Mail shares flogged by the government have been traded this morning October 11, 2013 11.52am BST The Financial Times reports that Jupiter Fund Management has purchased a sizeable amount of Royal Mail’s shares through the IPO.
(20) "I think trimming off a million filesharers from the total number in the UK would be a great measure of success for this letter campaign, but even that would be an unprecedented success in tackling global file sharing," said Mark Mulligan, a vice-president at analysts Jupiter Research.
Venus
Definition:
(n.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
(n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
(n.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(2) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(3) But Venus has been seen supporting Serena from the stands.
(4) Venus has a special place in the sun’s family of planets.
(5) I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite."
(6) An African woman sold into slavery, Baartman was brought to London in 1810 as the "Hottentot Venus" and exhibited as a freak of nature in London and France.
(7) Polanski's film is an adaptation of the successful play by David Ives about a theatre director (played by Mathieu Amalric) who is looking for an actress to play the lead role in a stage version of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's notorious 1870 novella Venus in Furs.
(8) In our past, we have both Venus and the crucifix, the Bible and Nordic mythology, which we remember with Christmas trees, or with the many festivals of St Lucy, St Nicolas and Santa Claus.
(9) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
(10) He began by offering three level 2 apprenticeships, which involved spending about 20 hours a week on site in the residential home, and 10 hours a week offsite with training provider Venus.
(11) The fundamental problem when intellectuals and MPs get together is always the same: politicians are from Mars; thinkers are from Venus.
(12) Venus and Serena Williams crash out in first round as Czechs post huge upset .
(13) It could be a melancholic experience, reflecting the state of the left in general – clipping off the mastheads at the end of the week of all the unsold copies of Weekly Worker , International Communist Current and Lalkar , making odd smelling vegan drinks for the older members of the co-op, ringing up a number left by someone who'd ordered Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus to tell them their book had arrived and finding that it had been ordered by a person now deceased.
(14) The five-times champion Serena Williams suffered a distressing exit from Wimbledon on Monday as she was forced to retire after three games of a doubles match with her sister Venus, suffering from a viral illness that left her groggy, disoriented and barely able to hit the ball.
(15) His two recent theatre adaptations, Carnage and, now, Venus in Fur revive these techniques, turning the limitations of theatre to his advantage.
(16) Robson almost stole the thunder of Venus Williams, who beat her sister Serena in straight sets in a high quality contest in windy conditions in yesterday's final to take her fifth Wimbledon singles title and seventh Grand Slam in all.
(17) One clue is provided as to why Hitler might have owned Cupid Complaining to Venus: in 1939 a British journalist, Ward Price, noted that Hitler had a Cranach in the Munich flat, and that it had recently been given to him as a 50th birthday present by the regional commander of Thuringia, Fritz Sauckel.
(18) Nights are a chillier story with frost likely by midweek, and clear skies in which the apparent cosying-up of Jupiter and Venus is currently a striking sight.
(19) From Earth, you can observe a small black disc – Venus – slowly wandering over the sun over the course of several hours.
(20) Simultaneously, other sources of error affecting test reliability, such as presence of dimples of Venus, relationship of skin distraction to movement of underlying structures, and upper level of Schöber skin landmarks were also considered.