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)
That's a lot of eggs, sig. We've got a very fertile being up there.
We had homemade spaghetti sauce with meatballs and angel hair pasta and garlic bread. Cyber is satiated. We made the sauce about seven months ago and canned it.
If'n I'm ded on the 'morrow, will you call someone?
How's the ghost in the room downstairs?
You've got to be a liberal (in most cases) to work in Hollyweird, which is no longer where they make movies, but the stars live in cities all around the So. Cal area. Hollywood is garbage town.
* Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 43 years
* Member of the radical Progressive Caucus
* One of 13 founders of Congressional Black Caucus
* Advocates freeing convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal
* Plotted with radical Ramsey Clark and others about ways to impeach President George W. Bush
* Spoke in 2003 at anti-Iraq War rally of pro-North Korean Marxist group International A.N.S.W.E.R.
* Voted against a resolution stating that "the United States and Israel are now engaged in a common struggle against terrorism."
* His district has a higher proportion of Muslims than any other in Congress, and his official congressional web site can be read in Arabic
* Spoke in 2005 at an event organized by accused anti-Semite Lyndon LaRouche
* Orchestrated letter-writing and media campaign over so-called Downing Street Memo with help from George Soros-funded MoveOn.org
Answer: Everybody's favorite socialist, Jihad John Conyers (D-Michigan)
Discover the Network
Sheesh, Grimmy, if I were giving out grades, you'd have an A!
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