ALL meanings of sun
sun
S s - noun sun astronomy: star 1
- abbreviation SUN sunshine 1
- transitive verb sun expose to sunshine 1
- noun sun glory, splendour 1
- noun sun (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes. 1
- noun sun the sun considered with reference to its position in the sky, its visibility, the season of the year, the time at which or the place where it is seen, etc. 1
- noun sun a self-luminous heavenly body; star. 1
- noun sun sunshine; the heat and light from the sun: to be exposed to the sun. 1
- noun sun a figure or representation of the sun, as a heraldic bearing usually surrounded with rays and marked with the features of a human face. 1
- noun sun something likened to the sun in brightness, splendor, etc. 1
- noun sun Chiefly Literary. clime; climate. glory; splendor. 1
- noun sun sunrise or sunset: They traveled hard from sun to sun. 1
- noun sun Archaic. a day. a year. 1
- verb with object sun to expose to the sun's rays. 1
- verb with object sun to warm, dry, etc., in the sunshine. 1
- verb with object sun to put, bring, make, etc., by exposure to the sun. 1
- verb without object sun to be exposed to the rays of the sun: to sun in the yard. 1
- idioms sun against the sun, Nautical. counterclockwise. 1
- idioms sun place in the sun, a favorable or advantageous position; prominence; recognition: The new generation of writers has achieved a place in the sun. 1
- idioms sun under the sun, on earth; anywhere: the most beautiful city under the sun. 1
- idioms sun with the sun, Nautical. clockwise. 1
- noun sun star: centre of our solar system 1
- singular noun sun The sun is the ball of fire in the sky that the Earth goes round, and that gives us heat and light. 0
- uncountable noun sun You refer to the light and heat that reach us from the sun as the sun. 0
- verb sun If you are sunning yourself, you are sitting or lying in a place where the sun is shining on you. 0
- countable noun sun A sun is any star which has planets going around it. 0
- noun sun Sun. is a written abbreviation for Sunday. 0
- noun sun the star at the centre of our solar system. It is a gaseous body having a highly compressed core, in which energy is generated by thermonuclear reactions (at about 15 million kelvins), surrounded by less dense radiative and convective zones serving to transport the energy to the surface (the photosphere). The atmospheric layers (the chromosphere and corona) are normally invisible except during a total eclipse. Mass and diameter: 333 000 and 109 times that of earth respectively; mean distance from earth: 149.6 million km (1 astronomical unit) 0
- noun sun any star around which a planetary system revolves 0
- noun sun the sun as it appears at a particular time or place 0
- noun sun the radiant energy, esp heat and light, received from the sun; sunshine 0
- noun sun a person or thing considered as a source of radiant warmth, glory, etc 0
- noun sun a pictorial representation of the sun, often depicted with a human face 0
- noun sun a year or a day 0
- noun sun a climate 0
- noun sun sunrise or sunset (esp in the phrase from sun to sun) 0
- verb sun to expose (oneself) to the sunshine 0
- verb sun to expose to the sunshine in order to warm, tan, etc 0
- abbreviation SUN Sunday 0
- noun sun the self-luminous, gaseous central star of the solar system: magnitude, -26; mean distance from the earth, c. 149.6 million km (c. 93 million mi); diameter, c. 1.4 million km (c. 864,000 mi); mass, c. 332,000 times that of the earth; volume, c. 1.3 million times that of the earth; mean density, c. 0.25 times that of the earth; central temperature, c. 15 to 20 million degrees K; surface temperature, c. 6,000°K; rotational period, c. 27 earth days 0
- noun sun the heat or light of the sun 0
- noun sun any star that is the center of a planetary system 0
- noun sun something like the sun, as in warmth or brilliance 0
- verb transitive sun to expose to the sun's rays; warm, dry, bleach, tan, etc. in or as in the sunlight 0
- intransitive verb sun to sun oneself 0
- noun sun an East Indian annual plant (Crotalaria juncea) of the pea family, grown for its bast fiber used in making rope, bagging, cigarette papers, etc. 0
- noun sun its fiber 0