sundial in English

noun
1
an instrument showing the time by the shadow of a pointer cast by the sun onto a plate marked with the hours of the day.
In the center of the parking lot was a towering white building, casting a shadow like a gargantuan sundial .
2
a mollusk with a flattened spiral shell that is typically patterned in shades of brown, living in tropical and subtropical seas.

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1. Sundial stolen A 30-INCH sundial, valued at £500, was stolen from a garden in Upper Froyle on Friday night.

2. The sundial was one of the earliest and simplest .

3. Male speaker It's an artifact and a working sundial.

4. Does your sundial here have like an alarm clock?

5. What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

6. Like a giant sundial, it demarcates both space and time.

7. The hands are actually modeled after the shadow on a sundial.

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9. The sundial is the oldest known device for the measurement of time.

10. A device, such as a clock or sundial, used in telling time.

11. A sundial measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day .

12. A sundial measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day.

13. The Samrat Yantra: a 89 foot high and 148 foot wide sundial.

14. Moonlight was frosting the dew, and an old sundial threw a long shadow.

15. You've made the sundial, and now it's time to put it to work.

16. Anaximander's device was a sundial, then, one which tracked seasons rather than hours

17. Sadly, however, subsidence of the building means that the sundial is no longer accurate.

18. The Bifilar sundial replaces the style by two threads that cross at different height

19. A Bifilar dial is a type of sundial invented by the German mathematician Hugo Michnik in 1922

20. In today's experiment you will make your own sundial and use it to tell the time.

21. Virtually every facet of monastic life was regulated either by the hour-glass or sundial; later by the clock.

22. When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years.

23. Sergio parked by the sundial, and walked to the front door where a painted wooden Negro stood in attendance.

24. Bifilar sundials can be as diverse as classical sundial, with in addition to all variations introduced by the height of …

25. 11 Virtually every facet of monastic life was regulated either by the hour-glass or sundial; later by the clock.

26. Trembling with shock, she leaned against a sundial and re-ran the disastrous interview in her mind from start to finish.

27. In Diogenes’ work, Anaximander might have been the inventor of the gnomon, “the raised piece of a sundial whose shadow indicates the sun’s position”, as

28. The Architectonicidae, or sundial shells, is a distinctive group of molluscs with a low conical shell with a widely open umbilicus. They vary from large colourful shells found in the shallow sublittoral to minute, colourless species occurring in the bathyal zone

29. One of Commander Legends' most talked-about commanders is also one of the most difficult to build around: Obeka, Brute Chronologist. Her flavor text and Sundial of the Infinite ability immediately drew in casual and competitive players alike

30. Your visit should include the Carefree Desert Gardens,our one-of-a-kind Carefree Sundial, our art & cultural festivals, a complement of fine dining restaurants, a variety of desert hiking adventures, and browsing in our wonderful and unique galleries and boutiques

31. ‘Time Crept as slowly as the shadow on a sundial and my precious dreams were jigsawed around me.’ ‘A shooting star was slowly creeping across the sky.’ 2 (of a plant) grow along the ground or other surface by means of extending stems or branches.

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