(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.
Plutonic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the Plutonists; igneous; as, the Plutonic theory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The causative agent of American foulbrood is Bacillus larvae, the causes of the European foulbrood diseases are Streptococcus pluton and Bacillus alvei and the causes of the septicemia are Pseudomonas apiseptica and Escherichia coli in honeybees (Apis mellifera).
(2) Four small towns in the pluton area were investigated in the valley of the river Cervo.