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)
Well, thank you, Slip!
I love you too. ;) You've always been a good friend to me.
Our temps are half of what yours are, however it sure makes one feel like kicking up one's heels. LOL
I really hope you're feeling better.
AlmeteorolgistGore is going to be on some show tonight. Another "real" meteorologist with PHd's in everything shot down everything Al has said last night.
Thank You for clean up my mess.
Thank YOu.
I tell you slip, just watch his big fat mouth move will having the tv mutted was just enough to make one barf.
That brew reminds me of my grandmother. She used to fix something similar for us when we were sick. As I remember, it worked pretty well. Thanks for reminding me. I really miss my grandma though. She's been gone for almost 14 years now.
Home from work and cooking chicken picatta for a drizzly, windy evening's dinner-
Wacko Al plays chicken little
To anyone dumb enough
To listen to his doom and gloom
Now that times for him are tough
For he and his lunatic followers
Who think that global warming
Has never happened here before-
Which makes it so alarming
If they'd read a little history
They might experience gains
Of knowledge of sidereal events
And learn to use their brains
Now we're all gonna wonder what offensive item you posted at 125.
Hmm, I should pick up some cooking wine and capers so I could do a chicken picatta as well. I think I've got everything else I need.
Well, I think you are the one who gave me the yummy recipe, so go get that wine and jar of capers and join the fun! I was going to cook beef and barley soup, but I got home too late.
Yesterday, I bought Husky girl a new plush ball with a squeaker inside and I bought Kitty boy and Yeti boy each a life sized fur mouse with a battery that makes it squeak like a real mouse whenever it is moved. At first, the dog was content chewing on her toy and making it squeak, but after a few minutes of watching the cats bat and chase after what her ears told her was a gen-u-ine prey animal in distress, she raced across the kitchen and grabbed the nearest fur mouse right from under the noses of the shocked cats, carried it to her pillow and started shaking it. The more she shook, the more it squeaked, so she shook it harder and bit it to shut it up. I took it from her, gave it back to the cats and threw the ball for her, but the minute she heard the mouse sound again, she was off to grab the cat's toys again and try to kill them-I retrieved the cat's toys from Husky girl's clutches so many times that she was covering them with her paws and growling when she saw me coming toward her. Hubby and I were LOAO, but I guess I'll have to keep careful watch when they are playing with those mice-I don't want Husky girl to eat one.
OMG that is hilarious and of course the things that squeak and move are REAL-- not like some fur ball with a squeaker!! i can see loosh and chanel going nuts over them too! how cute!
LOL, it was a song. I meant to post it on my thread for the poets. The music was so dreamy I was zonked out.LOL
The Dem candidates may think they're sidereal just by associating with Hollywood, though none seem to be star material.
Yep. You're right. He should have a paper bag over his face and duct tape over his mouth.
Both my grams are deceased. I'm sure they're in Heaven. One was funnier than can be; the other one was serious, but ever so loving. Two different grams. Both loved by all of us.
leave it to you to think it's something dirty... ; )
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