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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
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(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

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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.
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Then he learned to draw the various designs of sundials, indicating the hours exactly, and to measure the height of objects by geometric rule.
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He also mentioned how to apply this method in surveys and how to expand the principles of the gnomon to make sundials.
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Asundialis a wholly unreliable method of measuring time, and so is a clock.
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Improved communications and better clocks revealed another problem with using asundialas a clock.
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Then, what is to happen to the sundials?
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He asked for a miracle, and it was suggested that the shadow might go backwards over thesundialfor a considerable number of hours.
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They are trying to judge it with asundialset the wrong way round.
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I remember as a boy looking at asundialand finding that, having set it correctly, after about a week or a month it moved.
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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.
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He spoke of asundial.
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Reference has been made to sundials.
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The location features sculptures, asundial, interpretive signage, a naked eye observatory and a ceremonial fire pit.
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Over the doorway in the porch is asundial, and the date 1775 is engraved in the apex of its gable.
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He also wrote on mechanical devices like the astrolabe andsundial.
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