sundial 的定义
- an instrument that indicates the time of day by means of the position, on a graduated plate or surface, of the shadow of the gnomon as it is cast by the sun.
sundial 近义词
等同于 clock
等同于 timepiece
更多sundial例句
- It’s amazing to use the stars spinning overhead during the winter as a sundial, where by the position of stars you know what time of day or night it is.
- He has been accused of slow and ugly throwing mechanics (one sports writer said you could time his release with a sundial).
- Our next quest was for a sundial plate, but it was a vain search, for not a store in town carried such an article.
- The grape arbour along the west side of the sundial lawn was also built, of plain chestnut.
- “This is no time for bad puns,” she answered, dragging me swiftly down through the orchard, and up again to the sundial.
- Then it whitened the sundial lawn, reminding us to take the wooden dial post in for the winter.
- Beside, a sundial is not a portable instrument, and Joshua and his men had something more pressing to do than to loiter round it.