Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A crescent-shaped portion of a plane or sphere bounded by two arcs of circles.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A leash: as, the lune of a hawk.
  • noun Anything in the shape of a crescent or half-moon.
  • noun In geometry, a figure formed on a sphere or on a plane by two arcs of circles which inclose a space.
  • noun A fit of lunacy or madness; a mad freak or tantrum.
  • noun Another spelling of loon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Anything in the shape of a half moon.
  • noun (Geom.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.
  • noun obsolete A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak
  • noun A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles
  • noun Anything crescent-shaped
  • noun hawking A leash for a hawk

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin lūna, moon; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin luna ("moon").

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From French lune, from Latin luna.

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Alteration of lyon.

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Examples

  • They'd memorized every type of being that made a planet what it was, just by piecing together Le'lune's stories of more developed planets, and by asking El during a talkative mood swing.

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  • They'd memorized every type of being that made a planet what it was, just by piecing together Le'lune's stories of more developed planets, and by asking El during a talkative mood swing.

    Core on a Cord Megan Arkenberg 2008

  • 5.8 Lunes and Triangles Begin by reminding students that a lune is a crescent-shaped fi gure

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  • See a picture of the dad, here, and read about the lune de miel that he offered our Braise ...

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  • See a picture of the dad, here, and read about the lune de miel that he offered our Braise ...

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  • Woven through several two- to six-minute selections (ideal for downloading from iTunes, yet cherished by violin fans) is the theme of night in multiple manifestations: The title track, a song by Claude Debussy; "Nocturne," by the ill-fated Lili Boulanger, who died at the age of 24; moonlight (Debussy's beloved "Clair de lune"); and dreams (Gabriel Fauré's wistful "Après un rêve," which Ms. Jansen plays with tender yearning).

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  • Le voyage dans la lune | Georges Méliès | 1902: clusterflock

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  • Face à ce paysage je suis face à l'Est; c'est donc l'occasion d'assister aux levers de soleil et aussi de pleine lune.

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  • Face à ce paysage je suis face à l'Est; c'est donc l'occasion d'assister aux levers de soleil et aussi de pleine lune.

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  • Face à ce paysage je suis face à l'Est; c'est donc l'occasion d'assister aux levers de soleil et aussi de pleine lune.

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