(n.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
(n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(2) Asked whether they should resign, Robin Geffen, chief investment officer of the fund manager Neptune and a leading critic of the deal, said it would be up to their "individual consciences", but noted the aborted transaction had been "an absurdly ambitious attempt by the Pru to buy a large Asian company, at a very high price, with a very unclear strategy".
(3) Other declared runners include Join Together, who is trained by Paul Nicholls and will be ridden by Daryl Jacob, who teamed up to win this year's National with Neptune Collonges.
(4) In this battle of the gods, Neptune defeated Cibeles, 2-1 after extra time .
(5) Robin Geffen, chief investment officer of the fund manager Neptune, has been leading the rebellion against the deal.
(6) "Although we do not know where the exact transition is between rocky planets and gas planets, Kepler-22 b is likely closer to Neptune," said Fressin.
(7) "Each time I see a close-up of Victorino, I think that he has got the funkiest beard that I have seen in this World Cup (Rigobert Song's blonde dreads and beard were a bit too 'Neptune' - Copyright 'Lawro' - for me)," strums Khalid Majid.
(8) Grab the dog, stroll to the beach, pint at the Neptune - perfect."
(9) The 165-hectare (408-acre) Dunsbury farm is the third major coastal acquisition of the year as the trust celebrates 50 years of its Neptune coastline campaign , launched to safeguard some of the UK’s most iconic seaside landscapes.
(10) She was picked up by a chauffeur and driven in a white Land Rover to her home near Cannes where she switched cars to a grey Land Rover at 2.30am and drove to the six-bed Villa Neptune in Miramar on the coast between Nice and Marseille.
(11) Facebook is facing renewed criticism after its software appears to have blocked a photograph of a 16th-century statue of Neptune that stands in the Piazza del Nettuno in the Italian city of Bologna, claiming it is “sexually explicit”.
(12) They've been there quite a lot recently – two Europa League titles and a European Super Cup have ensured that – and Neptune was ready too, but few truly expected this: Atlético won the Copa del Rey.
(13) But Holst's approach was astrological, not astronomical, reflecting not scientific knowledge but the alleged effects of the planets on the human psyche: Jupiter the bringer of joy, Neptune the mystic and Mars the bringer of war.
(14) Played by Kristen Bell , she existed for three seasons on US television, plying her trade in the corruption-ridden west-coast town of Neptune, where her dad was the former sheriff who had been hounded out of office – and her classmates treated her as a pariah.
(15) Back in the 1950s, during celebrations for schoolchildren graduating, they used to cover up Neptune,” Barbari added.
(16) Then, in the season’s second half, the dean is murdered, leaving Veronica to solve it since Neptune’s police force are absolutely useless.
(17) Local writer Elisa Barbari had chosen the statue, which shows Neptune naked and holding a trident, to illustrate her Facebook page “Stories, curiosities and views of Bologna.” But the Nettuno picture fell foul of the social media giant’s privacy policies, the Daily Telegraph reported .
(18) At the very least it can be shown for the 6...10 MeV electron radiation of the linear accelerator Neptun 10p that all required distributions can be calculated from each separately measured depth dose and cross-distribution.
(19) For 105 patients with healthy lungs (76 breast carcinomas, 29 testicular tumors) irradiated from 1981 to 1983 with the linear accelerator Neptune 10p.
(20) Vinnie Van Lowe is still a creep Before he was the keystone of Thomas’ workplace comedy Party Down, actor Ken Marino swaggered about Neptune interfering with, occasionally assisting, and providing a sleazier alternative to Mars Investigations.
Nereid
Definition:
(n.) A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
(n.) Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.
Example Sentences:
(1) There have been no reports on the distribution of immunoreactive endothelin (ir-ET) in lower vertebrates and invertebrates, except for our previous studies on the nereid Neanthes diversicolor and the earthworm Eisenia foetida.
(2) The tetrapeptide FMRFamide which is present in extracts of Nereis virens was localized in various nereid tissues immunohistochemically.
(3) The reproduction of Nereid Perinereis cultrifera in the English Channel and the Atlantic is of an epitokous type.
(4) The same Nereid in the Mediterranean (Bay of Alger) has been described as atokous (Marcel, 1962) and since that time epitoky in mediterranean specimens has been considered to be an accidental phenomenon.
(5) These results assert that eleocytes are the vitellogenin producing cells in nereids.
(6) Guests can be photographed dressed as ancient Greeks and Egyptians round the marbles - which are also used as the main venue for late evening drinks after guests have wined and dined in the "magnificent" surroundings of the 2,400-year-old temple dedicated to Nereid, the sea nymphs of Greek mythology.