halos in English

noun

1

a disk or circle of light shown surrounding or above the head of a saint or holy person to represent their holiness.

When used for human figures, the halo represents holiness or sanctity, and its iconography is developed to mark important distinctions between the figures represented.

2

a circle of white or colored light around the sun, moon, or other luminous body caused by refraction through ice crystals in the atmosphere.

H.R.Madhusudan, Science Educator at the Planetarium, said ice crystals in the earth's atmosphere caused the solar halo .

synonyms: ring of light, nimbus, aureole, glory, crown of light, corona, halation, gloriole

verb

1

surround with or as if with a halo.

The 30-minute flight crosses majestic mountain peaks haloed by rain clouds that feed the waterfalls flowing briskly down their flanks.

noun

ring of light, nimbus, aureole, glory, crown of light, corona, halation, gloriole
annulus, ring
aura, glory, aureole, gloriole, nimbus

Use "halos" in a sentence

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2. 4 He put halos around the head of Jesus Christ.

3. 7 He put halos around the head of Jesus Christ.

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5. Examples of optical phenomenon include rainbows, green rays, Fata Morganas, alpenglow, Anthelions, and halos among others

6. Case report: a 76-year-old patient complained of halos and reduced visual acuity after external cataract surgery.

7. Clementines — commonly known by the brand names Cuties or Halos — are a hybrid of mandarin and sweet oranges

8. For keeping your tiny blueberry patch in productive, happy health, every spring you need to pour Acidifying halos around shrubs

9. Clementines, Cuties, Halos, Dimples, Suki, Tangerines, Mandarins? The world of single serving, easy to peel citrus can leave one wondering

10. Adrenergic urticaria is a rare type of stress-induced physical urticaria characterized by transient outbreaks of red papules surrounded by halos of hypopigmented, vasoconstricted skin

11. Calculations of the cooling rates imply that the gas should have cooled briskly and pooled in the centers of halos, leaving intergalactic space virtually empty.

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13. Within Pluto’s informally named Vega Terra region is a field of eye-catching Craters that looks like a cluster of bright halos scattered across a dark landscape.

14. Sa papaunlad na mga bansa, halos tuwing ikalawang minuto, isang Babae ang namamatay dahil sa mga komplikasyon sa pagbubuntis o panganganak, na resulta ng kakulangan sa pangunahing medikal na pangangalaga

15. In 2015, the Los Angeles Angels made a big investment in a shortstop from Cuba named Roberto Baldoquin and that mistake was put to rest yesterday when the halos released him.

16. The ice crystals that cause the 22° halo are oriented semi-randomly in the atmosphere, in contrast to the horizontal orientation required for some other halos such as sun dogs and light pillars.

17. The ice crystals responsible for halos are typically suspended in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds in the upper troposphere (5–10 km (3.1–6.2 mi)), but in cold weather they can also float near the ground, in which case they are referred to as diamond dust.

18. It is currently unknown whether LABs trace overdensities of galaxies in the high-redshift universe (as high redshift radio galaxies — which also have extended Lyman-alpha halos — do, for example), nor which mechanism produces the Lyman-alpha emission line, or how the LABs are connected to the surrounding galaxies.