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)

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The Clintons had plans--ethereal
They reached for the stars--sidereal
But Bill was led by his Putz
And now Hill hates his guts
All he ever brought home was venereal

[DainBramage]

"One moon was named ralph and had (high pitched voice) itty bitty gebitals...."

[xsmommy]

LOL!!!!

[xsmommy]

now that's more like it! ; )

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

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

A guy goes into a psychiatrist's office, dressed only in Saran Wrap. The shrink says, "I can clearly see your nuts."

[DainBramage]

And they wont spoil that way!

[xsmommy]

it is amazing to me that a topic is mentioned and you have a great joke right on point! i still love your Catskills stories!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Nah.

I competed with the smaller (faster) 10" metal version of that kind in high school in 72-74 (You know - when you were in HS!) Couple of trophies, couple of wins in a few competitions at the novice level, but I wasn't fast enough to win at the veteran levels. Switched to the 3 hour science tests and consistently placed - even at state nobody could concentrate as long as I could.

But I used the plastic 18 scale one for real calculations up until '75: sophomore year in college for mechanical statics, dynamics, chemistry, physics, calculus, trig, electrical engineering. Got my first calculator for junior & senior year.

'Twas $480.00.

[Robert A Cook PE]

8<)

[Soaring Feather]

Present.

[VRWCmember]

Switched to the 3 hour science tests and consistently placed - even at state nobody could concentrate as long as I could.

So, how long did you stare at the can of frozen orange juice because it said "Concentrate" on the label?

[Gabz]

Showoff...........

[DainBramage]

I noticed you said nothing about "great" when describing my joke.

[Robert A Cook PE]

(Robt ignores Vastie. Opens feather's present....)

[LonePalm]

Siderial Hour Angle and its inverse, Right Assension are important concepts in astronomy and celestial navigation. The main difference being that RA is measured Eastward, and SHA is measured Westward.

RA can be used to determine a star's location and to determine how long it will take for a star to reach a certain point in the sky. For example, if a star with RA = 01:30:00 is at your meridian, then a star with RA = 20:00:00 will be in the meridian 18.5 sidereal hours later.

Last evening at 8:07pm EDT, when the sun crossed the equator, was the First Point of Aries(FPA).

The RA and Declination (latitude) of a star do not change with respect to the FPA. This simplifies finding a star's estimated position to a table look-up.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[VRWCmember]

That's a lot of big words in that post.

[VRWCmember]

I have no earthly (or sidereal) idea what you said, but I like the way you said it.

[xsmommy]

OMG this is totally getting ridiculous, he's a STALLION now? good LORD! his serial adultery has nothing to do with being a dago!

[xsmommy]

aw you know i think u r great!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Thanks. All those misspent summers in Monticello, Ellenville, South Fallsburg and the rest of the Borscht Belt left an imprint on my brain. It is loaded with jokes, one-liners, double entendres--the whole gamut.
I can imitate a Jewish accent to perfection. I have a buddy out in Henderson, Nevada, whose wife is a real estate agent. If I call on the phone and get their answering machine, I usually leave a long-winded diatribe that sounds like a cross between Jackie Mason and Myron Cohen. True Story--one day my friend calls me and tells me that an elderly man with a heavy Jewish accent called his wife on the phone and was discussing some potential real estate transaction. After listening to his accent for about half a minute, she finally said to the guy, "S------, stop f***ing around. I'm busy."
Then, she realized that the call had come in on her cell phone, on a number that I don't have. She had to tell the old guy that she was talking to someone else, and to please excuse her language.