(n.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.
(n.) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
Example Sentences:
(1) Is Lune herself dead, and investigating the case as a memory, or a ghost?
(2) Sin embargo, la primera sección abre únicamente de 5am a 8pm y cierra los lunes por mantenimiento.
(3) The centriole adjunt differentiates into dense bodies as a "demi-lune" shape in the mature sperm.
(4) Nuestra semana inicia el lunes con un blog especial en vivo durante todo el día (de 6am a 6pm tiempo local).
(5) As Lune Carstensensen would say as she takes a slurp from her trademark golden goblet: "Unexpect the unexpected."
(6) In the absence of a viable culprit, Lune herself becomes the chief suspect, due to her hobby of restoring digital watches.
(7) Así que, si vives en el DF o a las afueras, queremos que te involucres y compartas tus puntos de vista con nosotros – hay muchas maneras de hacerlo ... • Para estar al tanto con nuestros videos, artículos, galerías y eventos en vivo, mantén un ojo atento a la página Guadrian Cities todos los días del Lunes 9 al Viernes 13 de Noviembre.
(8) After a little Lycossing, I learned the word "chalice" translates as a "jewelled drinking vessel" or "ornate cup"… come to think of it, Lune often "cups" her ears during conversation – could she herself be the Chalice?
(9) Environmental monitoring of surface waters around Lancaster showed that thermophilic campylobacters were absent from drinking water from the fells and from the clean upper reaches of the River Conder but were present in the main rivers entering Morecambe Bay, the lower reaches of the River Conder, the Lancaster canal, and seawater from the Lune estuary and Morecambe Bay.
(10) The surface was defined from histological sections and flattened by tiling it with small triangular tiles which were then laid in a single plane to form several flat strips or lunes.
(11) Ninni warns Lune that someone in the force wants her dead, but before she learns who it is, the ink on her portable fax machine runs out.
(12) If we have the surge in demand now we can only assume it will quieten down in April, or there will be strong negotiation by buyers.” Tony Lune, who runs Click Lettings & Sales in Birmingham, said all of his calls are from investors looking to increase their portfolios, including some buyers from London looking for lower prices.
(13) Del lunes 9 al viernes 13 de Noviembre, estaremos discutiendo aspectos de la vida en ésta fascinante ciudad – desde la cultura al ciclismo, los medios a la planificación urbana, entre muchas cosas más.
Rune
Definition:
(n.) A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.
(n.) Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Henrik Williams, a Swedish expert on runes from Uppsala University, hailed the discovery.
(2) These are brand-new films, and there has been no Oscar-style "campaign" to build a consensus and help us read the runes.
(3) Rune, who is divorced, generally gets two days off a week, when he travels to nearby Ibaraki prefecture to see his sons.
(4) Rune gave the Guardian a rare insight into working conditions inside the plant.
(5) "I've never thought working at the plant was dangerous," Rune tells the Guardian after a day's work, for which he receives 12,000 yen (£95).
(6) The next morning, at 5.45am, the bus is already waiting when Rune emerges from his hotel, where he shares a room with five other workers.
(7) History will record that the rune-master of 21st century Scotland was Professor Curtice.
(8) Like most in the Falklands community, Hunt had half-expected the invasion; he had read the diplomatic runes and observed the naval manoeuvres.
(9) They include Ariyoshi Rune, a tall, wiry 47-year-old truck driver whose slicked-back hair and sideburns are inspired by his idol, Joe Strummer.
(10) Which is what you can say about psychics, mediums, homeopathy and the casting of runes, but that makes it, like them, more exploitative and wicked, not less."
(11) A previous Premier League inquiry, signed off in 1997 by Robert Reid QC and the league's then chief executive, Rick Parry, had found that after Arsenal signed the Danish midfield international John Jensen, and the Norwegian full-back Pal Lydersen in 1991 and 1992, Arsenal's manager, George Graham, had been paid £425,000 in kickbacks by the players' Norwegian agent, Rune Hauge.
(12) As a result, it doesn’t want to be in the position of the Bank of Japan, which twice in the past 20 years misread the economic runes and raised rates, only to find that it had to cut them again shortly afterwards.
(13) But that actually, they were used to get to know the alphabet, or rune names," said Nordby.
(14) So far, what he calls his "Rosetta stone", which was found at Bergen wharf, is the only place in which it is possible to be sure what the jötunvillur code says, although he believes another rune stick may well have been inscribed with the name Thorstein, and another with the name Einar.
(15) There is whole range of things that can be done with the supervision of Wada.” Meanwhile the IAAF has announced that their five-person investigation team that will verify the reforms programme in the All-Russia Athletics Federation (Araf) will be headed by Rune Andersen, a Norwegian international anti-doping expert, and include the former 200m runner Frankie Fredericks.
(16) After drifting inside and using his chest to lay the ball off for Steve Morison, the winger immediately looked for the return pass that the Norwich forward promptly delivered, the ball sitting up invitingly for Bale to dispatch an emphatic volley inside Rune Almenning Jarstein's near post.
(17) It seems the Tories read the runes on this one and realised that increasingly the evidence and political tide were against them.
(18) Some rune verses are, apparently, thematically derived from Chinese Radical sequences.
(19) But Rune expects there will be little praise, at least in public, for the men who cleaned up the devastation the waves left in their wake.
(20) New Labour thought it had discovered a magic money-tree and gave up on regulation; journalists on the whole failed to read the runes or question the new macho expansionist, masters-of-the-universe culture; the public liked the easy credit and soaring house prices and was too lazy to examine what was happening in the City; and what naysayers and doom-mongers there were tended to be marginalised.