MOON


Meaning of MOON in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

crescent moon

a crescent moon

full moon

half moon

moon boot

Moon landings

the Apollo Moon landings

moon shone

The moon shone brightly in the sky.

new moon

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

big

Behind those big moon glasses she reminded him of a young owl.

I watched that big Oregon prairie moon above me put all the stars around it to shame.

She can read. Big green moon and her with a book of poetry her Gran had.

blue

So now he just comes round once in a blue moon .

A blue moon is the second full moon in one month.

Once in a blue moon the addressing system itself changes.

That happens only once in a blue moon , when the weather is cold enough and thus the ice thick enough.

The most recent observation of a blue moon was in Edinburgh in 1950.

And Eleanor was damn lucky to have him as an escort once in a blue moon .

bright

There is a bright moon , and the sky is full of stars.

The sheen of a bright moon revealed the sad carnage of the day, and the horrors of war be-came vividly distinct.

The full bright moon and the reflection of the snow made a mockery of the night.

The bright moon shines over the hollow hill.

The moon was high overhead - a bright , full moon that seemed to float in the dark mirror of the water.

A bright moon lighted up the fields and woods.

There was a bright moon and on looking closer I saw a dark smear coming from his mouth.

I is a clear night with a bright moon .

crescent

Now I am passing an area where the crescent moon flag flies over shops, bakeries and mosques.

A thin crescent moon will appear to the left of Venus the evening of July 6.

A high wind frayed the sails of clouds until a crescent moon limned each shred with white gold.

The sun has dipped beneath the horizon, leaving behind a pink glow joined by a crescent moon .

A crescent moon showed occasionally which helped.

About frangipani blooms and crescent moons .

She had a nose stud shaped like a tiny crescent moon and alternate fingernails on both hands were painted black.

The crescent moon passes Jupiter low in the east before dawn Jan. 18.

full

It is a beautiful night, a full moon and a few bright stars against the black sky over the Heath.

The full moon last night was so bright I could almost read by it.

The full bright moon and the reflection of the snow made a mockery of the night.

Clouds drifted over to veil the almost full moon , and I heard somewhere from Gammon Ridge a deep, howling wail.

Overnight the cloud had been whisked away and a full moon hovered in the sky, drenching the rooftops with pale silver.

It falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon of Spring.

His eyes behind the glasses looked like the full moon shining into two windows.

During the middle of each month the full moon was attacked by a colossal sow and ravenously devoured.

new

A slender new crescent moon lay on its back high in the clear night sky.

By the time of the next new moon , the tribe had seen one birth and two deaths.

The night was clear, and arched up from the hills with a new moon rising over their crests.

It was black as night at new moon and white as frost at first light.

It was a mild night with clouds drifting across the sky and occasionally obscuring the new moon .

In section seven she invites the new moon to dance on her heart, so that they can be extinguished together.

There was a new moon , and its pale light cast soft shadows in the stillness.

Near the time of new moon there is no point on the Moon that can both see sunlight and transmit to Earth.

■ NOUN

half

Granny flew high above the roaring treetops, under a half moon .

landing

As space technology, Bio2 is the most thrilling news since the moon landings .

■ VERB

fly

The chance of flying to the moon under one's own power has a probability of 0.

We were now flying to the moon .

There was as much chance of that as flying to the moon but Wilson was grateful for Pen's long memory.

rise

The holiday has to do with other worldliness, spectral phenomena, lonesome caped creatures rising across the moon .

set

The cantata ends with a famous meditation on the setting moon and Pleiades.

I saw the machine they set down on the moon .

He was the first person to set foot on the moon . 3.

I wanted to be the first astronaut to set foot on the moon .

shone

The sky was clear and a full moon shone , lighting the landscape.

When the clouds thinned, and the bright moon shone through, the dead arms of the elms seemed to beckon.

It was a balmy night with a full moon and the city shone Picasso blue.

The moon shone overhead like a new dime.

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

A full moon shone through silvery clouds, adding a dreamy air to the scene.

walk

Everything becomes so much easier and some people have an experience akin to walking on air or walking on the moon .

watch

To sit by fires and watch the moon rise.

He watched the moon rise through his binoculars.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

once in a blue moon

Once in a blue moon Eric will offer to help with the dishes, but usually he doesn't do any housework at all.

I used to spend a lot of time in London, but now I only go there once in a blue moon.

We go out to eat once in a blue moon.

And Eleanor was damn lucky to have him as an escort once in a blue moon.

So now he just comes round once in a blue moon.

That happens only once in a blue moon, when the weather is cold enough and thus the ice thick enough.

promise sb the moon/the earth

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the moons of Saturn

There's no moon tonight.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Already the moon was up, a full moon bathing everything in a pale blue light.

But it was like the moon .

I opened my eyes and through the cabin window saw the sliver of the moon just over the horizon.

It fell on my legs and lap through the skylight, a lovely slow silver moon .

Staff here are all over the moon .

There was nothing she could not do, he said, check the stars, even, and the moon .

We arrived by the light of the moon .

You spend the next two days en route to the moon .

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

around

Sometimes it's so they can moon around and say how beautiful it all was and pretend they're still lifers there.

What good can you do mooning around worrying, picking at your food like an anorexic, and giving yourself splitting headaches?

But there was no point in mooning around until then.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

once in a blue moon

Once in a blue moon Eric will offer to help with the dishes, but usually he doesn't do any housework at all.

I used to spend a lot of time in London, but now I only go there once in a blue moon.

We go out to eat once in a blue moon.

And Eleanor was damn lucky to have him as an escort once in a blue moon.

So now he just comes round once in a blue moon.

That happens only once in a blue moon, when the weather is cold enough and thus the ice thick enough.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

One couple mooned the President's limousine as it drove past.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And Alice had better get off her high horse and realize there was more to life than mooning over Lester Stoner.

Is that you mooning about again?

It's bad enough that Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy, wet behind the ears.

Sometimes it's so they can moon around and say how beautiful it all was and pretend they're still lifers there.

What good can you do mooning around worrying, picking at your food like an anorexic, and giving yourself splitting headaches?

You did not moon about love.

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