What's the difference between sun and sunder?

Sun


Definition:

  • (n.) See Sunn.
  • (n.) The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000.
  • (n.) Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.
  • (n.) The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine.
  • (n.) That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (2) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
  • (3) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
  • (4) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
  • (5) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
  • (6) A parent who took his anti-Page 3 campaign to Legoland and Wapping is claiming victory after the Danish toymaker announced the end of its two-year partnership with the Sun.
  • (7) He poses a far greater risk to our security than any other Labour leader in my lifetime September 12, 2015 “Security” appears to be the new watchword of Cameron’s government – it was used six times by the prime minister in an article attacking Corbyn in the Times late last month, and eight times by the chancellor, George Osborne, in an article published in the Sun the following day.
  • (8) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".
  • (9) It has emerged that Kelvin MacKenzie , who attacked the decision by Channel 4 News in his Sun column and called on readers to complain to the media regulator, did not in fact end up lodging a complaint himself.
  • (10) News International executives are also understood to have been testing the water for a potentially swift launch of a Sunday edition of the Sun as a replacement for NoW, which published the final issue in its 168-year history on Sunday, in conversations with advertisers and media buyers.
  • (11) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
  • (12) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (13) The media mogul said he had spoken "very carefully under oath" at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday, when he had said that Brown had pledged to "declare war" on his company in a phone call made at around the time the Sun came out in support of the Conservative party, on 30 September of that year.
  • (14) Then annually from 1985 to 1989, they received written recommendations about sun protection for a period of 2-6 years after the initial education.
  • (15) A sun protection factor (SPF)-15 and an SPF-30 sunscreen were compared with regard to their ability to prevent sunburn cell formation after the exposure of human skin to a standardized dose of solar-simulated radiation.
  • (16) He said the Sun was hugely profitable and had enjoyed a record year in 2010.
  • (17) Venus has a special place in the sun’s family of planets.
  • (18) This finding does not affirm the belief that protection of adult skin from exposure to the sun will reduce the risk from melanoma.
  • (19) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
  • (20) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.

Sunder


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends.
  • (v. i.) To part; to separate.
  • (v. t.) A separation into parts; a division or severance.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the sun and wind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the British public had been consistently keen for Afghan translators, many of whom had taken significant risks to help British soldiers, to be offered security and protection.
  • (2) Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future believes a generational change has occurred: he hails a "Jessica Ennis generation", one that barely notices race at all.
  • (3) Unless the NUS changes radically at its national conference in April, there is a risk that it may become terminally sundered from that movement.
  • (4) On an anecdotal level, politics seems to be sundering friendships on social media platforms such as Facebook as well as in real life.
  • (5) Which leaves Labour still seeking what the Fabian Society's Sunder Katwala calls its "hand grenade", an idea big enough to capture the public imagination once again.
  • (6) The last century was extremely tough for Korea: it was brutally occupied by Japan, then sundered in 1945 by its liberators.
  • (7) Over at the New Statesman website, Sunder Katwala, a director of Future, a thinktank which focuses on issues of identity and integration, wrote an article also critical of the coverage by some British newspapers but singling out this paper: "Perhaps surprisingly, it is the Guardian's front page which comes uncomfortably close to being the poster front which the murderer might have designed for himself."
  • (8) Even more brilliantly, the lie-dream invocation in the trope of flagwaving global unity emerging from feuding multiplicity sunders the ideologically freighted hyperreal construction of a sporting simulacrum that will be familiar to readers of philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
  • (9) Back in 2012, Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future (talking of the pre-Olympic opening ceremony whinging), said that for those nay-saying: “their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness.” In a country that prefaces a litany of complaints with “mustn’t grumble”, we don’t need gene science to tell us how much we take pleasure in our role.
  • (10) It was organised by the left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research and British Future , whose director, Sunder Katwala, is former head of the Fabians.
  • (11) There are also the ethnic, confessional and cultural divisions that sunder Ukraine, between the Catholic and nationalist west and the Orthodox and often pro-Russian east, also recalling Yugoslavia.
  • (12) More can always be done, but the campaigner Sunder Katwala was right to note that while in the past football probably introduced many to racism, it has arguably done more than any other part of British society to publicly repudiate racists and fascists in recent years.
  • (13) The first concerns feminism's purported sundering of the nuclear family and responsibility for a demographic collapse that opens Europe to Muslim colonisation.
  • (14) Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the survey highlighted a national anxiety about immigration to which national politicians needed to respond.
  • (15) 9.10am: In an interview on the Today programme, George Osborne acknowledged Sunder Katwala's point (see 9.02am) about a couple who earn £40,000 each still getting child benefit, while a family with one person earning £50,000 would lose it.
  • (16) This one may assume to be due to a mesencephalic parasympathicotonic reaction as the basis for the occurrence of perioral and acro-syndroms after Fischer-Brügge and Sunder-plassmann.
  • (17) Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer Nevertheless, Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the results gave reason to hope that the country was becoming a more tolerant place.
  • (18) Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future draws our attention to an interesting phenomenon which he dubs "the Farage Paradox".
  • (19) Sunder Katwala, founder of the thinktank British Future and a cheerful enthusiast for the Games, is not worried by the naysayers' grumbling: "Their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness," he says.
  • (20) The last century was very tough for Korea: it was brutally occupied by Japan, then sundered in 1945 by its liberators Kim is probably right to bet that China’s strategic calculus will not soon change.

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