Posted on 03/21/2007 5:44:20 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
sidereal • \sye-DEER-ee-ul\ • adjective
1. of or relating to stars or constellations *
2. measured by the apparent motion of the stars
* Indicates the sense illustrated by the example sentence.
Example sentence:
Few astronomers have witnessed the sidereal phenomenon of a supernova.
Did you know?
In Latin, the word for "heavenly body" is "sidus." Latin speakers used that word to form "desiderare" ("from a heavenly body") and "considerare" ("to think about a heavenly body"), which were adopted into English as "desire" and "consider." "Sidereal," another "sidus" creation, was first used in English in 1647. Thirty-four years later, an astronomer coined the phrase "sidereal year" for the time in which the earth completes one revolution in its orbit around the sun, measured with respect to the fixed stars. Not surprisingly, other sidereal measurements of time followed, including the sidereal month, the sidereal day, the sidereal hour, and even the sidereal minute.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
I'll bet you use the Balloon Lagoon Fishing Pole and Reel.
I can't even read it. Another young boy? She better be a great looker, otherwise, she'll go to jail.
Exactly.
Holy Moley! Congratulations!
So I guess I got hit on in a different way.
A lot of movement and no backache in the morning, perchance?
Now that would really confuse me. Two decimal points? What happened to the comma?
I now use an HP Polish Calculator. That's what it's called. It's the easiest one for me to understand.
Hehehehehehehe!
Ohhhhhhhhhhh. Thank you, Loney.
Fixed-point arithmetic is simpler in terms of computer architecture, but you have to be write smarter software to handle it.
The opposite is "floating point."
In a fixed-point system, for example with no decimal places to the right, if you wanted to multiply 10 by 10 you'd get 100. But if you wanted to multiply 10 by 2.5, you'd need to first adjust 2.5 by one decimal place, to 25. Then you'd multiply 10 by 25 to get 250. Then you'd have to remember to adjust the decimal point back, to make the final real answer 25.
I wish! That was what our state legislature gave themselves yesterday. The phone factory keeps raises in the single digits these days.
Don't let up on them. They did that in PA in 2005 but relentless public pressure forced them to repeal the pay raise after 5 months.
Cyber just rolled his eyes. LOL!
Being retired, I just get COLAs. Those are single digits.
But did you follow me?
Hi ms. slip, grap a star and hold on, it will help you remember your place.
Wonderful day here today, warming up, nice breeze blowing and snow melting, how good is that?
Believe it or not, I'm better at preparing taxes for our CPA. Cyber's idea of filing something is throwing it on the nearest available horizontal surface. I have files for everything in order. Guess our marriage was made in Heaven.
Good weather just makes you feel good, huh? We haven't broken 80 yet today. Perfect day for me, too.
True. With enough brandy, who needs the lemon and honey :-)
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