I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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lunar
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It shows the moon's state every day of the year, as well as solar and lunar eclipses .
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Sept. 26: Second lunar eclipse .
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However, the recent lunar eclipse and Mercury in retrograde motion signify the financial position is much too uncertain.
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Solar and lunar eclipses , however, occurred far too rarely to provide any meaningful aid to navigation.
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You can also plot comets and minor planets as well as predict solar and lunar eclipses .
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It is a clear day, which should be ideal for watching the lunar eclipse that is expected tonight.
solar
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It shows the moon's state every day of the year, as well as solar and lunar eclipses .
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No solar eclipses will be visible from the United States in 1996, and only two will be visible from Earth.
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That special trams were run to enable people to view a solar eclipse ?
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As the day of the solar eclipse approached, Ellie received many invitations from well meaning friends.
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Twenty-one shots of the solar eclipse hang beside a woman bending over in the bath.
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But when you have a solar eclipse in your sign at Christmas, things are going a bit too far.
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This is a total solar eclipse .
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Cancer 23 June to 23 July A total eclipse of the Sun doesn't happen all that often.
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It was March and interest in the total eclipse of the sun, due on June 21, was beginning to spark.
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As the Monster waxes, so Jimbo wanes; total eclipse is a whisker away.
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This is a total solar eclipse .
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In that year, there was a total eclipse of the Sun visible from Britain on 3 May.
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Consequently the dates of total solar eclipses form a rather complex sequence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the eclipse of Europe's prestige after World War I
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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No solar eclipses will be visible from the United States in 1996, and only two will be visible from Earth.
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Public disillusion has hastened the eclipse .
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She felt unenthusiastic and listless about the eclipse and couldn't see why everyone else was making such a fuss.
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The eclipse of electricity as a means of propulsion has been one of the more curious facets of the evolution of transport.
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The fragility of the evidence anticipates the eclipse of fact by legend.
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To see these activities as representing the apotheosis of Morris Zapp and the eclipse of Phillip Swallow is tempting but too simple.
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When the dark edge of the satellite passed across a star, it dimmed briefly before the moment of eclipse .
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Yet, today, empires east and west are in eclipse .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Eclipsed by the US champion at last year's Olympic games, Schofield has decided to retire.
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Channel 5's tremendous line-up of TV programmes has eclipsed its competitors' best efforts.
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Zubero's time of 1:56.57 eclipsed the world record.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A half hour later the swells had eclipsed the boat and the snow had thickened.
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Finally we come to sight, the most human of senses, the one which normally eclipses all the others.
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From nowhere last fall, he has eclipsed all but Sen.
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His nearness eclipsed all other sensations.
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Intense searches have revealed no optical or other signal from the partner, nor does it eclipse the quasar.
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It even eclipsed Netscape, the highly touted Internet firm, which had a first-day gain of 108 percent.
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That was not the first ethnic bloc seeking to influence foreign policy, but it eclipsed predecessors.
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The old realm of Caledor was eclipsed by other realms including the fast-rising mercantile city-state of Lothern.