英语词汇sundial怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

　

单词	sundial
释义	sundial noun[C] uk /ˈsʌn.daɪl/us /ˈsʌn.daɪl/ adeviceusedoutside,especiallyin the past, that consists of athinpieceofmetalattachedto aflatsurfaceprintedwithnumbers. Itshowsthetimeby themetalmaking ashadowon thesurfaceas thesunmovesacrossthesky. 日晷，日规 Richard Cummins/ Lonely Planet Images/GettyImages SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Watches & clocks 24-hour clock against the clockidiom alarm alarm clock at/on the stroke ofsomethingidiom atomic clock clock horologist horology hour hand hourglass jewel military time movement stroke timekeeper timepiece turn the clocks backphrase twenty-four-hour clock watchband See more results » (Definition ofsundialfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press) Examples from literature As the Sun moved in the sky, the dark shadow on the sundial showed the change of time. Of course, sundials didn’t work when there was no sun – at night or on a cloudy day! The first clock was the sundial. sundial\| American Dictionary sundial noun[C] us /ˈsʌnˌdɑɪl/ adevicethat uses thelightof thesunto show thetimeofday (Definition ofsundialfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press) Examplesofsundial sundial The other topics include the education of architects, technical devices like sundials and water clocks, mechanical devices for war, and the ethnography of various peoples. From theCambridge English Corpus Then he learned to draw the various designs of sundials, indicating the hours exactly, and to measure the height of objects by geometric rule. From theCambridge English Corpus He also mentioned how to apply this method in surveys and how to expand the principles of the gnomon to make sundials. From theCambridge English Corpus Asundialis a wholly unreliable method of measuring time, and so is a clock. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Improved communications and better clocks revealed another problem with using asundialas a clock. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Then, what is to happen to the sundials? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He asked for a miracle, and it was suggested that the shadow might go backwards over thesundialfor a considerable number of hours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are trying to judge it with asundialset the wrong way round. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I remember as a boy looking at asundialand finding that, having set it correctly, after about a week or a month it moved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 About 4,000 years ago sundials were developed to show, more accurately than just the guesswork of looking at the heavens, the divisions of the day as the sun moved round. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He spoke of asundial. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Reference has been made to sundials. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The location features sculptures, asundial, interpretive signage, a naked eye observatory and a ceremonial fire pit. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Over the doorway in the porch is asundial, and the date 1775 is engraved in the apex of its gable. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He also wrote on mechanical devices like the astrolabe andsundial. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/sundial##
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