(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.
Pluto
Definition:
(n.) The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those androgynous looks helped him play a resilient 1970s transvestite in Breakfast On Pluto, for example.
(2) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(3) He ushered me into the front room, told me to wait there, and shut the door, leaving me with just his whippet, Pluto, for company.
(4) Extracted from Our People by Iain Banks, from Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, edited by Rich Wiles, published by Pluto Press.
(5) "When I was asked to do Pluto I was a bit dubious, first because as an astrophysics amateur I was well aware that Pluto wasn't technically a planet, and second because The Planets is a perfectly satisfying whole.
(6) Reputex says the detailed rules, signed off by cabinet on Tuesday, confirm that none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new LNG processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(7) PLUTO, ORTEP, and MMP2 input files are set up automatically.
(8) Pluto was demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006, but it continues to shine in concert halls where Matthews's beautifully crafted movement is frequently performed as a coda to Holst's work.
(9) And while there is plenty of interest in unmanned expeditions, like the New Horizons probe that sent dramatic pictures back from Pluto last year, what has always fired the public imagination is the human component.
(10) Now imagine a Justice League film with Christian Bale's tortured Batman and Henry Cavill's navel-gazing Superman suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a completely unheralded Martian Manhunter, who's nipped round for a coffee to show off holiday snaps of his recent trip to Pluto.
(11) "Solar wind, and the possible impact by a Pluto-sized body is thought to have stripped much of the initial early atmosphere from the planet, and since then the atmosphere has developed as a balance between volcanic injection and loss to space."
(12) He asked for a trade in 2007, saying he’d “go play on Pluto right now” in lieu of suiting up in the purple and gold.
(13) Holst wrote The Planets during the first world war and before the discovery of Pluto, the "ninth planet", in 1930.
(14) The ones with the yoga lessons, the constant preaching about saving the rainforest, the overly earnest attempts to paint himself as some kind of eco-warrior when his carbon footprint must be the size of Pluto?
(15) He and co-writer (and director) Robert Zemeckis started drafting in 1980 – initially the time machine was not a car but a fridge (changed in case children started clambering into them), Doc's pet Einstein was an ape, not a dog, and the title was Spaceman from Pluto.
(16) Eddie Murphy's recent career has been plagued by flops but The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) is by far the biggest – it made just $7m, a net loss of $144.1m (£93m).
(17) Robin Yassin-Kassab is the author of The Road From Damascus, a novel, and co-author with Leila Al-Shami of the forthcoming book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto, January 2016)
(18) Patrick McCabe read from his novel Breakfast On Pluto.
(19) Breakfast On Pluto But he's undercut this boyish charm to brilliant effect in some bad-guy roles, such as plane thriller Red Eye, or as Batman's Scarecrow.
(20) Eddie Murphy had one in the early noughties with Showtime, The Adventures of Pluto Nash and I Spy, and then all over again with Meet Dave, Imagine That, and A Thousand Words, which seems careless.