Word For The Day, Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - sidereal

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ^ | 03/21/2007 | The Janitor

[VRWCmember]

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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....

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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)

[VRWCmember]

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

It is almost a given that sidereal bodies, specifically our own sun, have more to do with atmospheric and climate changes than human activity, especially given recent indications of "global warming" on Mars and even on Pluto (which isn't even a planet yet); but algore still hasn't figured that out.

Gore on the Rocks .....(the hot air may be leaking out)

No pushing at the door please!

Happy Humpday Everybody!

[VRWCmember]

Get to class, you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Miss Rika has the gradebook. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Miss Slippy is pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment her shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to her instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.

[xsmommy]

hi honey

[VRWCmember]

Get to class, you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Miss Rika has the gradebook. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Miss Slippy is pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment her shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to her instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.

[VRWCmember]

Get to class, you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Miss Rika has the gradebook. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Miss Slippy is pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment her shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to her instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.

[VRWCmember]

Get to class, you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Miss Rika has the gradebook. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Miss Slippy is pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment her shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to her instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.

[xsmommy]

did you mean SLIDERULE? aren't they extinct..?

[Gabz]

Good morning.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Need to grab that cup of coffee before it slidereals off the cup holder.

[NeoCaveman]

what's that? some ancient artifact?

[Robert A Cook PE]

8<)

[xsmommy]

i'm guessing you had one that big, huh, robt?

[theDentist]

Apparently there are a lot of internal fights in the HillaryforDictator campaign. The idea that she alone would be the Dem Candidate kept their collective heads among the stars, but 'bama's entry has shaken their sidereal patina and driven them back to earth, and they are blaming one another for her mediocre polling.

[xsmommy]

pre BOWMAR BRAIN....

first calculator i ever owned, and i paid about $200 for it in 1974~!

[VRWCmember]

hi darlin'

[xsmommy]

oh look at you with that TX accent!! : )

[VRWCmember]

what's that? some ancient artifact?

You would know.

[spotbust1]

Good morning VRWC. I just woke up so my brain is a little foggy. I came down with a cold yesterday and am suffering the side effects of NyQuil. I will have a cup of coffee and be back with something later. I will try to be brilliant.

[DainBramage]

Two moons were in an argument when one moons wife told him to be quite.

He screamed at her "Hey!!! crater face...whose sidereal are you on anyway?!!!(This is as low as I've ever gone)

[xsmommy]

it would have been lower had you worked in something about Ralph's genitals....; )