MOON


Meaning of MOON in English

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 ~

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