(n.) The king of the fairies, and husband of Titania or Queen Mab.
Example Sentences:
(1) Approximately 1,056 dwellings were located in the Oberon Shire by the interviewers; household interviews were obtained from 789 of them.
(2) Photograph: All Grid Deborah Oberon, marketing and alliance manager from AllGrid Energy , says: “The houses in the Barkly area had no insulation and in the summer they used to get so hot that not even flies would go into them during the day.
(3) But he rose rapidly through the ranks to play Oberon in Peter Hall's 1962 Midsummer Night's Dream, the Antipholus of Ephesus in Clifford Williams's classic bare-boards Comedy of Errors in the same year, and Edmund in the international tour of Peter Brook's King Lear (1964).
(4) Oberon is clothed in vaguely Middle Eastern robes, bearded and crowned.
(5) Her face is truculent; she stares up and away from Oberon, who is apparently being restrained by a sharp-faced Puck.
(6) Then there is Contradiction: Oberon and Titania (1854-58), depicting the quarrel over the Indian Boy, which was painted for William Charles Hood at Bethlem; and The Fairy Feller , painted for George Henry Haydon, also at Bethlem.
(7) More noteworthy than the "black Heathcliff" angle is Arnold's decision to shoot only half of Brontë's novel (which has been adapted for screen several times, most famously with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the title roles ).
(8) In 1983 an outbreak of Akabane disease occurred in calves in New South Wales between Coolah and Dunedoo at the foothills of the Liverpool Range, from Molong to Oberon in the Blue Mountains and in the Bylong Valley.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest misslucyknight quotes from Much Ado About Nothing Facebook Twitter Pinterest hopbopstop : "This is my favourite from a Midsummers Nights Dream, I had to learn the whole script in three weeks at school when I played Oberon."
(10) But that hasn't stopped attempts to do so, of which the 1939 William Wyler movie - with Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Catherine, and doing away with more than half of the novel - casts a particularly long and deceiving shadow.
(11) In one, the Oberon Grill (516 2nd Street), I found a framed newspaper story from 1911 describing how Jack London had got into a fist fight in that very place.
(12) She toured as Sally Bowles in I Am A Camera and appeared as Titania (to Robert Helpmann's Oberon) in an Old Vic production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, first at the 1954 Edinburgh festival and then on tour in north America.
Uranus
Definition:
(n.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.
(n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) By 1864 Ulrichs had transposed the new knowledge from embryology to sexology to explain those to whom he gave the name Urnings (after Uranus who gave womanless birth to Venus from sea spume) as having "a woman's mind trapped in a man's body" (anima muliebris corpore virili inclusa).
(3) Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTG) transform the heat produced during the alpha decay of 238Pu into electrical energy for use by deep-space probes, such as the Voyager spacecraft, which have returned images and other data from Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.