MOON

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moon I. substantiv

1. (astron.) lună;

full moon lună plină;

new moon lună nouă;

the moon increases / waxes luna creşte;

the moon wanes luna descreşte;

to bay the moon a) a lătra la lună; b) (fig.) a se ocupa cu / a se ţine de fleacuri;

to believe that the moon is made of green cheese a crede orice absurditate; a crede că tot ce zboară se mănâncă;

to cry for the moon a cere un lucru imposibil / luna de pe cer;

once in a blue moon foarte rar, din an în Paşte;

(sl.) to shoot the moon a se muta din locuinţă pe furiş noaptea (pentru a nu plăti chiria);

to aim/ to level at the moon a avea pretenţii exagerate, a viza situaţii mari.

2. (astron.) satelit (al oricărei planete).

3. (poetic) lună (a anului).

4. lumina lunii.

5. ceva în formă de lună; semilună (emblema ateagului turcesc).

6. the Moon (mitol.) (zeiţa) Diana; Selene.

7. (în alchimie) argint.

moon II. verb A. tranzitiv

(şi to moon away) a petrece (timpul) visând.

moon II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. (şi to moon about) a rătăci / a se mişca / a înainta ca în vis / ca un somnambul.

2. (rar.) a străluci ca luna.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The bright moon is high and clear.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Sometimes the dark face of the Moon catches Earth’s reflected glow and returns that light.

(Earthshine, NASA)

“Ah!” said he, “she wants to be lord of the sun and moon.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Meantime the moon declined: she was about to set.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The bowman looked down at his feet and then up at the moon.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The new moon in Aquarius of late last month (January 24) may have brought you sudden reverse news about money, such as a large expense you had not anticipated.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

They kept on walking, however, and at night the moon came out and shone brightly.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Then she threw open a door which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon was shining brightly.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As it passed across the face of the moon the light shone clearly through the membranous wings, and it looked like a flying skeleton against the white, tropical radiance.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

First, the team discovered that the rate of large crater formation on the Moon has been two to three times higher over approximately the last 290 million years than it had been over the previous 700 million years.

(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)

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