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{
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}
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"word": "circalunar"
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"word": "cis-lunar"
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"word": "lunar calendar"
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"word": "lunar cataclysm"
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"word": "lunar caustic"
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"word": "lunar colony"
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"word": "lunar cycle"
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"word": "lunar distance"
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"word": "lunar eclipse"
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"word": "lunar hay fever"
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"word": "lunarite"
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"word": "lunar letter"
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"word": "lunar lifeboat"
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"word": "lunarlike"
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{
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"word": "lunar mansion"
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"word": "lunar module"
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"word": "lunar month"
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"word": "Lunar New Year"
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"word": "lunar node"
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"word": "lunar observation"
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"word": "lunar occultation"
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"word": "lunar orbit"
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"word": "lunar phase"
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"word": "lunarscape"
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"word": "lunar theory"
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"word": "lunar year"
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{
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"word": "lunate"
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{
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"word": "nonlunar"
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"word": "protolunar"
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{
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"word": "semilunar"
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{
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"word": "solilunar"
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{
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"word": "sol-lunar"
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{
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"word": "solunar"
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{
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"word": "sublunar"
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{
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"word": "superlunar"
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"word": "translunar"
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"word": "trans-lunar"
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{
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"word": "trans-lunar injection"
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{
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"2": "enm",
"3": "lunar",
"4": "",
"5": "shaped like the crescent moon"
},
"expansion": "Middle English lunar (“shaped like the crescent moon”)",
"name": "inh"
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{
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"2": "la",
"3": "lūnāris",
"4": "",
"5": "of or pertaining to the moon, lunar"
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"expansion": "Latin lūnāris (“of or pertaining to the moon, lunar”)",
"name": "der"
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"2": "frm",
"3": "lunaire"
},
"expansion": "Middle French lunaire",
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{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "lunaire",
"3": "",
"4": "lunar"
},
"expansion": "French lunaire (“lunar”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
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"2": "lūna",
"3": "",
"4": "the Moon; crescent shape"
},
"expansion": "lūna (“the Moon; crescent shape”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*lewk-",
"4": "",
"5": "bright; to shine"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”)",
"name": "der"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English lunar (“shaped like the crescent moon”), from Latin lūnāris (“of or pertaining to the moon, lunar”) (possibly through Middle French lunaire (modern French lunaire (“lunar”)), from lūna (“the Moon; crescent shape”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”)) + -is (suffix forming adjectives).",
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"expansion": "lunar (not comparable)",
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"lun‧ar"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
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"word": "apolune"
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{
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"word": "loon"
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{
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"word": "lunacy"
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{
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"word": "lunambulism"
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"word": "lunanaut"
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{
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"word": "Lunarian"
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{
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"word": "lunatic"
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{
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"word": "lunation"
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{
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"word": "lune"
},
{
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"word": "lunette"
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{
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"word": "lunisolar"
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"word": "perilune"
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],
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"categories": [
{
"_dis": "19 14 3 15 7 11 7 23",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Moon",
"orig": "en:Moon",
"parents": [
"Celestial bodies",
"Light",
"Moons",
"Nature",
"Space",
"Energy",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Alternative form: Lunar"
},
{
"text": "lunar observations a lunar eclipse",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1774 September, “A Voyage towards the North Pole, Undertaken by His Majesty’s Command in 1773. By Constantine John Phipps. 4to. Nourse.”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLIV, London: Printed […], for D[avid] Henry, and sold by F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, paragraph 25, page 421, column 2",
"text": "By two lunar obſervations the long[itude] was 9° 57′ 30″ E. agreeing within 37′ by the watch, though the day before the long. by moon and watch differed 2° 35′.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1782, Blith Hancock, “Section I. Of the Doctrine of Eclipses.”, in The Doctrine of Eclipses, both Solar and Lunar; Containing Short and Easy Precepts for Computing Solar and Lunar Eclipses. […], Norwich, Norfolk: Printed by J. Crouse, for the author, and sold by M. Booth, […], →OCLC, page 8",
"text": "Lunar eclipſes are not quite ſo complicated in theory, nor near ſo tedious and difficult in calculation, as ſolar ones. The latter are only apparent, the former really ſuch; that is, the Moon is really deprived of its light, and therefore muſt appear obſcured to all the inhabitants of the earth equally, by whom ſhe can be ſeen; whereas the Sun, not being deficient in light, will ever appear reſplendent to thoſe who do not happen to live on that part of the earth where the lunar ſhadows pass.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1783, “the Man of the People” [pseudonym; William Thomson], “I Leave the Service of the Apothecary, and Enter into that of the Lunar Sovereign”, in The Man in the Moon; or, Travels into the Lunar Regions, volume I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Murray, […], →OCLC, page 104",
"text": "You know nothing about fixing the lunar rays into a ſolid ſubſtance, but you muſt not therefore ſay that this is impoſſible. It can be done, and I can do it. Theſe rays, reduced to a ſubtle powder, and blown on the ſurface of the infant brain, ſtimulate it in future life, by their quality of pricking.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1927, Robert Briffault, “The Magical Origin of Queens”, in The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions, volume III, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 1",
"text": "The transformation of primitive lunar deities into solar or heavenly gods are often associated with the transfer of magical and priestly functions to the men and the development of male priesthoods. [...] Or again, in Peru, the official cult of the lunar deity at Cuzco was served by colleges of priestesses, while the service of the Sun-god was performed by male priests.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “\"Condor\"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48",
"text": "Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1991, David Vaniman, John Dietrich, G. Jeffrey Taylor, Grant Heiken, “Exploration, Samples, and Recent Concepts of the Moon”, in Grant Heiken, David Vaniman, Bevan M. French, editors, Lunar Sourcebook: A User’s Guide to the Moon, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, section 2.1 (Lunar Exploration), page 5",
"text": "Beyond Earth, the Moon is the only body in space that has been systematically sampled. [...] These samples were collected by the six U.S. Apollo and three U.S.S.R. Luna missions from known locations on the lunar surface. [...] Each Apollo landing increased in exploration complexity and returned even greater amounts of lunar samples.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon)."
],
"id": "en-lunar-en-adj-B7H3t~bK",
"links": [
[
"Moon",
"Moon"
],
[
"Luna",
"Luna"
],
[
"Earth",
"Earth"
],
[
"moon",
"moon"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lunarlike"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "lunary"
},
{
"word": "moonish"
},
{
"word": "moonlike"
},
{
"word": "moonly"
},
{
"word": "moony"
},
{
"word": "selenic"
}
],
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"not-comparable"
],
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"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "qamariyy",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "قَمَرِيّ"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "qamri",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "قمري"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "llunar"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "mjesjacóvy",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "месяцо́вы"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "candro",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "চান্দ্র"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "mahtabi",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "মাহতাবি"
},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lúnen",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "лу́нен"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunární"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "měsíční"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunair"
},
{
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "luna"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "kuu-"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunaarinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunaire"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "sélénite"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "seliniakós",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "σεληνιακός"
},
{
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "selēniakós",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "σεληνῐᾰκός"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "y'rekhi",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "יְרֵחִי"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "hold-"
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{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunala"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "éascaí"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "sga",
"lang": "Old Irish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "éscaide"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "sga",
"lang": "Old Irish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "éscamail"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunare"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "mangî",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "مانگی"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "heyvî",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "ھەیڤی"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lūnāris"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "mesečev",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "месечев"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "mesečinski",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "месечински"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "bulan"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "cendera"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "kebulanan"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "qamari"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "qamri"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "eayst"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "leunaithe"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "mōnlīċ"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "qamari",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "قمری"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "mahšidi",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "مهشیدی"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "księżycowy"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"poetic"
],
"word": "miesięczny"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunarny"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lúnnyj",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "лу́нный"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "cāndra",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "चान्द्र"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "лу̀на̄ран"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "lùnāran"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunárny"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "mesačný"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunȃren"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "candra",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "చంద్ర"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 6 0 24 15 22",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "rāja",
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"text": "Alternative form: Lunar"
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"text": "lunar observations a lunar eclipse",
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"ref": "1774 September, “A Voyage towards the North Pole, Undertaken by His Majesty’s Command in 1773. By Constantine John Phipps. 4to. Nourse.”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLIV, London: Printed […], for D[avid] Henry, and sold by F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, paragraph 25, page 421, column 2",
"text": "By two lunar obſervations the long[itude] was 9° 57′ 30″ E. agreeing within 37′ by the watch, though the day before the long. by moon and watch differed 2° 35′.",
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"ref": "1782, Blith Hancock, “Section I. Of the Doctrine of Eclipses.”, in The Doctrine of Eclipses, both Solar and Lunar; Containing Short and Easy Precepts for Computing Solar and Lunar Eclipses. […], Norwich, Norfolk: Printed by J. Crouse, for the author, and sold by M. Booth, […], →OCLC, page 8",
"text": "Lunar eclipſes are not quite ſo complicated in theory, nor near ſo tedious and difficult in calculation, as ſolar ones. The latter are only apparent, the former really ſuch; that is, the Moon is really deprived of its light, and therefore muſt appear obſcured to all the inhabitants of the earth equally, by whom ſhe can be ſeen; whereas the Sun, not being deficient in light, will ever appear reſplendent to thoſe who do not happen to live on that part of the earth where the lunar ſhadows pass.",
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"ref": "1783, “the Man of the People” [pseudonym; William Thomson], “I Leave the Service of the Apothecary, and Enter into that of the Lunar Sovereign”, in The Man in the Moon; or, Travels into the Lunar Regions, volume I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Murray, […], →OCLC, page 104",
"text": "You know nothing about fixing the lunar rays into a ſolid ſubſtance, but you muſt not therefore ſay that this is impoſſible. It can be done, and I can do it. Theſe rays, reduced to a ſubtle powder, and blown on the ſurface of the infant brain, ſtimulate it in future life, by their quality of pricking.",
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"ref": "1927, Robert Briffault, “The Magical Origin of Queens”, in The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions, volume III, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 1",
"text": "The transformation of primitive lunar deities into solar or heavenly gods are often associated with the transfer of magical and priestly functions to the men and the development of male priesthoods. [...] Or again, in Peru, the official cult of the lunar deity at Cuzco was served by colleges of priestesses, while the service of the Sun-god was performed by male priests.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “\"Condor\"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48",
"text": "Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.",
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"ref": "1991, David Vaniman, John Dietrich, G. Jeffrey Taylor, Grant Heiken, “Exploration, Samples, and Recent Concepts of the Moon”, in Grant Heiken, David Vaniman, Bevan M. French, editors, Lunar Sourcebook: A User’s Guide to the Moon, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, section 2.1 (Lunar Exploration), page 5",
"text": "Beyond Earth, the Moon is the only body in space that has been systematically sampled. [...] These samples were collected by the six U.S. Apollo and three U.S.S.R. Luna missions from known locations on the lunar surface. [...] Each Apollo landing increased in exploration complexity and returned even greater amounts of lunar samples.",
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"text": "The images therefore which Laban worſhipped were probably lunar amulets, or types of the ark in the form of a creſcent.",
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"ref": "1901, Chris Shepherdson, Another New York Murder",
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{
"ref": "1956, Research Studies of the State College of Washington, page 270",
"text": "Although Little Chandler hungers to “express the melancholy of his soul in verse,” to ascend out of the depths of his solitary confinement to the lunar heights of the poet, he can do no more than expand into a garrulous bully or shrink into an infant, always remaining his own inadequate self, like an inflatable ball that changes in size but never in substance.",
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},
{
"ref": "2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 63",
"text": "House prices were in freefall, if you owned one. They remained laughably lunar to the rent-bound.",
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}
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"ref": "1805 April, “Art. V. Asiatic Researches, Vols. VI. and VII. …”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume XLVI, London: Printed by Strahan and Preston, […]; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], published 1794, →OCLC, page 379",
"text": "On the Poison of Serpents. By W. Boag, Esq. [...] Supposing the fatal effect [of a snakebite] to be produced by the sudden subtraction of oxygen from the blood, this gentleman recommends, by way of antidote, the employment of those substances which contain oxygen in its greatest abundance, and part with it with the greatest facility; and, as lunar caustic [silver nitrate] possesses these properties in a singular degree, he concludes that no medicine is better calculated to resist the effects of the poison of serpents.",
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"ref": "1963, L. L. Waite, “How We will Get to the Moon: Excerpt from a Speech by L. L. Waite, Senior Vice President, North American Aviation, Inc., before the Electronic Analysts of Boston”, in Skyline, volume 21, number 2, Pittsburgh, Pa.: North American Aviation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20",
"text": "Several initial experimental firings of the various stages of Saturn V into earth orbit will precede the planned lunar flight. The astronauts will practice rendezvous techniques in the earth's orbit. [...] Before they reach the moon the astronauts will have another difficult maneuver to perform—turning their command module around so that its nose is attached to the top of the lunar excursion module. Two of the crew members will transfer from the command module to the lunar excursion module.",
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}
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"word": "قَمَرِيّ"
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "месяцо́вы"
},
{
"code": "bn",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "চান্দ্র"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "mahtabi",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "মাহতাবি"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lúnen",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "лу́нен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunární"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "měsíční"
},
{
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunair"
},
{
"code": "eo",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "luna"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "kuu-"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunaarinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunaire"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "sélénite"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"roman": "seliniakós",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "σεληνιακός"
},
{
"code": "grc",
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"roman": "selēniakós",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "σεληνῐᾰκός"
},
{
"code": "he",
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"roman": "y'rekhi",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "יְרֵחִי"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "hold-"
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{
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunala"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
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{
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "éscaide"
},
{
"code": "sga",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "éscamail"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunare"
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{
"code": "ckb",
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"roman": "mangî",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "مانگی"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "ھەیڤی"
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "месечев"
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{
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "месечински"
},
{
"code": "ms",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "bulan"
},
{
"code": "ms",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "cendera"
},
{
"code": "ms",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "kebulanan"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "qamari"
},
{
"code": "mt",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "eayst"
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{
"code": "nrf",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "leunaithe"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "mōnlīċ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "qamari",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "قمری"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "mahšidi",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "مهشیدی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "księżycowy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
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"word": "miesięczny"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunarny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lúnnyj",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "лу́нный"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "cāndra",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "चान्द्र"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "лу̀на̄ран"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
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{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunárny"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "mesačný"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunȃren"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "candra",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "చంద్ర"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "rāja",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "రాజ"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "saumyamu",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "సౌమ్యము"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mísjačnyj",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "мі́сячний"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "misjacévyj",
"sense": "of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon",
"word": "місяце́вий"
},
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"sense": "(believed to be) influenced by the Moon or the moon of another planet",
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"ref": "[1838, Samuel Cooper, “DISLOCATION”, in A Dictionary of Practical Surgery: Comprehending All the Most Interesting Improvements, from the Earliest Times down to the Present Period; […], 7th edition, London: Printed for Longman, Orme, & Co.; […], →OCLC, page 451, column 1",
"text": "The carpal bones are usually described as being capable of being luxated from the lower end of the radius forwards or backwards, inwards or outwards. The case backwards, which has been stated to be the most frequent, is facilitated by the direction of the convex articular surfaces of the scaphoid, lunar, and cuneiform bones, which slope more backwards than forwards.]",
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"ref": "1888, John C[harles] L[ewis] Sparkes, “The Bones”, in A Manual of Artistic Anatomy for the Use of Students in Art. Being a Description of the Bones and Muscles that Influence the External Form of Man, London: Baillière, Tindall, and Cox, […], →OCLC, page 16, column 1",
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"ref": "1946, Evelyn Feiring, Rainbow of Being, Pasadena, Calif.: Holly, →OCLC, page 155",
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"ref": "1859 October, Henry Toynbee, “A Few More Words on Lunars”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, volume XXVIII, number 10, London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. […]; and J. D. Potter, […], →OCLC, page 511",
"text": "[Y]oung beginners cannot be too often cautioned that a single lunar is of little or no value until the observer knows the usual difference between his lunars taken on opposite sides of the moon; and these should be taken with the same instrument, using the same screens and telescope, for he must remember that they may be expected to differ. My star lunars differ from three to four minutes, or say fifty miles of longitude; my sun lunars from one to two minutes, or say twenty minutes of longitude.",
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"text": "With cheap quartz watches (several, for reliability) we can do all the modern celestial navigation we could want. But learning and practicing lunars gives us deeper insight into celestial navigation; an appreciation for their historical importance and difficulty; and perhaps most significant of all, after conquering lunars we can appreciate the great convenience of St. Hilaire sights and modern quartz watches. Moreover, in the rare event of losing UT, with lunars and only a poor watch we can still be confident of finding our longitude at sea (well, OK, to within 30′).",
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