(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.
Sundown
Definition:
(n.) The setting of the sun; sunset.
(n.) A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of correlations indicated that both rate of cognitive decline and initial sundowning behavior were significantly correlated with initial perceived caregiver stress.
(2) Disturbances of sleep and the sleep-wake rhythm are a common clinical observation in AD, as is "sundowning," the onset or exacerbation of delirium during the evening or night.
(3) Among the 89 subjects, 11 were found to be sundowners, a prevalence rate of one in eight in the facility.
(4) This began to change later in the 1880s – George Henry's Sundown or River Landscape by Moonlight (1887) takes Monet's Impression of 15 years before and transfers it from Le Havre to the Clyde.
(5) A celebratory rally had been planned to take place outside the palace after sundown.
(6) Numerous theories have been advanced in attempting to account for sundowning.
(7) All patients had sundowning behavior and sleep disturbances.
(8) Further, we describe the prevalence, possible causes, and treatment of sundowning.
(9) Hundreds gathered on Friday at sundown for a peaceful prayer vigil and march.
(10) Lost in the pleasant absorption of that silence,” Novo recounts, “of the panorama of rooftops sprinkled here and there with the yellowing treetops at sundown,” he suddenly felt Emilio approaching from behind.
(11) There’s always a swimsuit in the boot of the car and people are always planning where to go for sundowners.
(12) The Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder took aim from more than 70 yards and the ball sailed over N’dy Assembé’s head into the net without touching the ground for his third international goal.
(13) This association may be specific to sundowning behavior because there was no relation between the rate of change of perceived stress and morning agitation.
(14) Kral and Wolanin and Phillips have argued for a more psychogenic account, by stating that psychosocial stressors may, in concert with impaired cognitive functioning, account for sundowning.
(15) Muslim Brotherhood sources said more surprise marches were likely after sundown on Tuesday night.
(16) Among physiologic factors, odor of urine, being awakened frequently on the evening shift, and fewer medical diagnoses were significantly associated with sundowning.
(17) And no one would dare say that they would cut the water of Egypt," said Abdel Arabi, 39, who sat on a tour boat watching sundown's rays glint off the Nile as birds swooped in for the evening's final catch.
(18) To investigate the relations among the initial perceived stress of Alzheimer patients' caregivers, the rate of change of perceived stress, patients' sundowning behaviors, and patients' rate of cognitive decline.
(19) Caregivers' initial perceived stress and the rate of change of perceived stress, patients' sundowning behavior, and rate of cognitive decline.
(20) Infections obtained in sentinel larvae placed in the ponds for 3 hr intervals indicated that C. punctatus infected larvae around sundown.