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)
any teacher ever hit on you back in the day?
Nobody hit on me back in the day.
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When I was in junior high there were rumors about the band director and a couple of the flute players (and he would always slow dance with them at the band dances even more than he danced with his wife -- it was creepy). There were also rumors about the choir director (a woman) and one or two of the guys in the choir. And there were rumors about a particular history teacher who was also the cheerleaders' sponsor and a couple of guys. All the boys thought she was hot, and she did appear to enjoy the attention. I remember one afternoon she was leaving the school to go somewhere and she had changed clothes and was wearing a t-shirt that said on the front "Love a Teacher: It's Educational". My third or fourth year in junior high (that's a joke) she quit teaching junior high and started teaching history at the local junior college (where the students aren't jail-bait). It just so happened that my mother was a biology instructor at that college, and she said that there were allegations that this woman had inappropriate relationships with at least one student while she was teaching there. So, it has gone on for a long time, but I don't think as prevalently as it does today.
I was in the hot history teacher's class for my first week in 7th grade, but then had a schedule change and ended up with an old balding fat coach as my history teacher. I was bummed, but that bit of providential intervention may have been responsible for my keeping my virginity intact through high school.
and college for that matter.
Freepers ROOOOLE!
I now know more about Vast than I know about my best friend.... ;^)
i just can't fathom what a grown woman wants with a teenaged boy.
My first: With a decimal point fixed at two places.
Naaah. I'm not into that EMO crap.
you still own that, don't you? you dweeb....
Male Drama Teacher.
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i am held captive to Sirius stations Octane and Hard Attack when driving xsboy to school. xsteen is the emo head. they have all these preset alerts for when certain songs/artists are being played, it beeps, and it is usually when i am driving by myself that the alerts go off.
hit on YOU or on dave?
"We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun..
was that nice??????
But the stars we could reach
were just starfish on the beach."
Hey, it's better than some modern whiner band, right?
oh i don't know-- it is about as insipid!
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