noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ bright
▪
A bright ~ shone high overhead.
▪ pale
▪ large , small
▪ crescent , full , gibbous , half , harvest , new , quarter
▪ waning , waxing
▪ rising
▪ icy
▪
Saturn's icy ~s
VERB + MOON
▪ cover , hide
▪
A large black cloud covered the ~.
▪ fly to , go to , land on , reach
▪ colonize
▪ explore
▪ orbit
▪ discover
▪
Galileo discovered the ~s of Jupiter.
MOON + VERB
▪ appear , come out , rise
▪ glow , shine
▪ illuminate sth , light sth , light up sth
▪ set
▪
The ~ had almost set and the night was now dark.
▪ wane , wax
▪ hang , hover
▪
The full ~ hung high in the night sky.
▪ orbit sth
▪ pass
▪
During the eclipse, the ~ passed between the sun and the Earth.
▪ be reflected in sth , reflect off sth
▪
The ~ reflected perfectly off the surface of the water.
▪ cast sth
▪
The ~ cast its soft glow on the earth below.
MOON + NOUN
▪ landing
▪ base
▪
The agency wants to establish a permanent ~ base.
▪ rocket
▪ mission
▪
an astronaut who was killed during the first ~ mission
▪ cycle , phase
▪
The calendar gives you sunset times as well as ~ phases.
▪ god , goddess
PREPOSITION
▪ on the ~
▪
the first man to walk on the ~
▪ under a/the ~
▪
The road shone frostily under the full ~.
PHRASES
▪ the light of the ~
▪
They had to work by the light of the ~.
▪ the surface of the ~