Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S

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Sum (v. t.) To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.

The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day. -- Bacon.

Sum (v. t.) To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.

"Go to the ant, thou sluggard," in few words sums up the moral of this fable. -- L'Estrange.

He sums their virtues in himself alone. -- Dryden.

Sum (v. t.) (Falconry) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.

But feathered soon and fledge They summed their pens [wings]. -- Milton.

Summing up, A compendium or abridgment; a recapitulation; a r['e]sum['e]; a summary.

Syn: To cast up; collect; comprise; condense; comprehend; compute. Sumac

Sum (n.) A quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" [syn: sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money].

Sum (n.) A quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers [syn: sum, amount, total].

Sum (n.) The final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" [syn: sum, summation, sum total].

Sum (n.) The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty].

Sum (n.) The whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate].

Sum (n.) A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" [syn: union, sum, join].

Sum (v.) Be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" [syn: summarize, summarise, sum, sum up].

Sum (v.) Determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up].

Sum, () In domain theory, the sum A + B of two domains contains all elements of both domains, modified to indicate which part of the union they come from, plus a new bottom element. There are two constructor functions associated with the sum:

inA : A -> A+B inB : B -> A+B

inA(a) = (0,a) inB(b) = (1,b)

and a disassembly operation: case d of isA(x) -> E1; isB(x) -> E2

This can be generalised to arbitrary numbers of domains.

See also:

Indian summer (n.) [ C ] (Successful time) 興旺的晚期；幸福安寧的晚年 A pleasant or successful time nearly at the end of someone's life, job, or other period.

// A star of the 1960s, she's enjoying an Indian summer with her second highly acclaimed film this year.

Summer (v.) [ I usually + adv/ prep ] （在特定地方）避署；過夏天 To spend the summer in a particular place.

// If your cactus has summered outdoors, move it into the garage or house when overnight temperatures drop below 65°F.

Summer-fallow (v. t.) To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.

Summerhouses (n. pl. ) of Summerhouse.

Summerhouse (n.) A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer.

Summerliness (n.) The quality or state of being like summer.

Summersault (n.) Alt. of Summerset.

Summerset (n.) See Somersault, Somerset.

Summerstir (v. t.) To summer-fallow.

Summertide (n.) Summer time.

Summertree (n.) A summer. See 2d Summer.

Summery (a.) Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; as, a summery day.

Summist (n.) One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary.

Summit (n.) The top; the highest point.

Summit (n.) The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame.

Summit (n.) The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated.

Summitless (a.) Having no summit.

Summity (n.) The height or top of anything.

Summity (n.) The utmost degree; perfection.

Summoned (imp. & p. p.) of Summon.

Summoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Summon.

Summon (v. t.) 召喚；傳喚；請求；要求 [O2]；召集；使出，喚起，鼓起（勇氣），振作（精神）[（+up）] To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. --Shak.

Trumpets summon him to war. -- Dryden.

Summon (v. t.) To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.

Summon (v. t.) (Mil.) To call upon to surrender, as a fort.

Syn: To call; cite; notify; convene; convoke; excite; invite; bid. See {Call}.

Summon (v.) Call in an official matter, such as to attend court [syn: {summon}, {summons}, {cite}].

Summon (v.) Ask to come; "summon a lawyer."

Summon (v.) Gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage" [syn: {muster}, {rally}, {summon}, {come up}, {muster up}].

Summon (v.) make ready for action or use; "marshal resources" [syn: {mobilize}, {mobilise}, {marshal}, {summon}].

Summoner (v. t.) One who summons; one who cites by authority; specifically, a petty officer formerly employed to summon persons to appear in court; an apparitor.

Summonses (n. pl. ) of Summons.

Summons (v.) The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.

Summons (v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like.

Summons (v.) A demand to surrender.

Summons (v. t.) To summon.

Sumner (n.) A summoner.

Sumo (n.) (相撲 sumō) or Sumo wrestling 【日】相撲 Is a competitive full-contact wrestling sport where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (dohyō) or into touching the ground with anything other than the soles of his feet. The characters 相撲 literally mean "striking one another."

The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally. It is generally considered a gendai budō (a modern Japanese martial art), but this definition is misleading, as the sport has a history spanning many centuries. Many ancient traditions have been preserved in sumo, and even today the sport includes many ritual elements, such as the use of salt purification, from the days when sumo was used in the Shinto religion. Life as a wrestler is highly regimented, with rules regulated by the Japan Sumo Association. Most sumo wrestlers are required to live in communal sumo training stables, known in Japanese as heya, where all aspects of their daily lives—from meals to their manner of dress—are dictated by strict tradition.

From 2008 to 2011, a number of high-profile controversies and scandals have rocked the sumo world, with an associated effect on its reputation and ticket sales. These have also affected the sport's ability to attract new recruits.^[1] Despite this setback, sumo's popularity and general attendance has rebounded due to having multiple yokozuna (or grand champions) for the first time in a number of years and other high-profile wrestlers such as Endō and Ichinojō grabbing the public's attention.^[2]

Sumoom (n.) See Simoom.

Sump (n.) A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.

Sump (n.) The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there.

Sump (n.) A pond of water for salt works.

Sump (n.) A puddle or dirty pool.

Sumph (n.) A dunce; a blockhead.

Sumpitan (n.) A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.

Sumpter (n.) The driver of a pack horse.

Sumpter (n.) A pack; a burden.

Sumpter (n.) An animal, especially a horse, that carries packs or burdens; a baggage horse.

Sumpter (a.) Carrying pack or burdens on the back; as, a sumpter horse; a sumpter mule.

Sumption (n.) A taking.

Sumption (n.) The major premise of a syllogism.

Sumptuary (a.) Relating to expense; regulating expense or expenditure.

Sumptuosity (n.) Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness.

Sumptuous (a.) 奢侈的，華麗的 Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel.

Sumptuous (a.) Rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: {deluxe}, {gilded}, {grand}, {luxurious}, {opulent}, {princely}, {sumptuous}].

Sun (n.) (Bot.) See Sunn.

Sun (n.) The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000.

Note: Its mean apparent diameter as seen from the earth is 32' 4[sec], and it revolves on its own axis once in 251/3 days. Its mean density is about one fourth of that of the earth, or 1.41, that of water being unity.

Its luminous surface is called the photosphere, above which is an envelope consisting partly of hydrogen, called the chromosphere, which can be seen only through the spectroscope, or at the time of a total solar eclipse. Above the chromosphere, and sometimes extending out millions of miles, are luminous rays or streams of light which are visible only at the time of a total eclipse, forming the solar corona.

Sun (n.) Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.

Sun (n.) The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine.

Lambs that did frisk in the sun. -- Shak.

Sun (n.) That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield. -- Ps. lxxiv. 11.

I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity. -- Eikon Basilike.

Sun and planet wheels (Mach.), an ingenious contrivance for converting reciprocating motion, as that of the working beam of a steam engine, into rotatory motion. It consists of a toothed wheel (called the sun wheel), firmly secured to the shaft it is desired to drive, and another wheel (called the planet wheel) secured to the end of a connecting rod. By the motion of the connecting rod, the planet wheel is made to circulate round the central wheel on the shaft, communicating to this latter a velocity of revolution the double of its own. -- G. Francis.

Sun angel (Zool.), A South American humming bird of the genus Heliangelos, noted for its beautiful colors and the brilliant luster of the feathers of its throat.

Sun animalcute. (Zool.) See Heliozoa.

Sun bath (Med.), Exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; insolation.

Sun bear (Zool.), A species of bear ({Helarctos Malayanus"> Sun bear (Zool.), a species of bear ({Helarctos Malayanus) native of Southern Asia and Borneo. It has a small head and short neck, and fine short glossy fur, mostly black, but brownish on the nose. It is easily tamed. Called also bruang, and Malayan bear.

Sun beetle (Zool.), Any small lustrous beetle of the genus Amara.

Sun bittern (Zool.), A singular South American bird ({Eurypyga helias), in some respects related both to the rails and herons. It is beautifully variegated with white, brown, and black. Called also sunbird, and tiger bittern.

Sun fever (Med.), The condition of fever produced by sun stroke.

Sun gem (Zool.), A Brazilian humming bird ({Heliactin cornutus). Its head is ornamented by two tufts of bright colored feathers, fiery crimson at the base and greenish yellow at the tip. Called also Horned hummer.

Sun grebe (Zool.), The finfoot.

Sun picture, A picture taken by the agency of the sun's rays; a photograph.

Sun spots (Astron.), spots that appear on the sun's disk, consisting commonly of a black central portion with a surrounding border of lighter shade, and usually seen only by the telescope, but sometimes by the naked eye.

They are very changeable in their figure and dimensions, and vary in size from mere apparent points to spaces of 50,000 miles in diameter. The term sun spots is often used to include bright spaces (called faculae) as well as dark spaces (called maculae). Called also solar spots. See Illustration in Appendix.

Sun star (Zool.), Any one of several species of starfishes belonging to Solaster, Crossaster, and allied genera, having numerous rays.

Sun trout (Zool.), The squeteague.

Sun wheel. (Mach.) See Sun and planet wheels, above.

Under the sun, In the world; on earth. "There is no new thing under the sun." -- Eccl. i. 9.

Note: Sun is often used in the formation of compound adjectives of obvious meaning; as, sun-bright, sun-dried, sun-gilt, sunlike, sun-lit, sun-scorched, and the like.

Sunned (imp. & p. p.) of Sun.

Sunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sun.

Sun (v. t.) To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.

Then to sun thyself in open air. -- Dryden.

Sunn (n.) (Bot.) An East Indian leguminous plant ({Crotalaria juncea) and its fiber, which is also called sunn hemp. [Written also sun.]

Sun (n.) The star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system; "the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system"; "the Earth revolves around the Sun" [syn: sun, Sun].

Sun (n.) The rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind" [syn: sunlight, sunshine, sun].

Sun (n.) A person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory Etc.

Sun (n.) Any star around which a planetary system revolves.

Sun (n.) First day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians [syn: Sunday, Lord's Day, Dominicus, Sun].

Sun (v.) Expose one's body to the sun [syn: sun, sunbathe].

Sun (v.) Expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun; "insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble"; "These herbs suffer when sunned" [syn: sun, insolate, solarize, solarise].

Sun (n.) Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name was originally an acronym, Stanford University Network. Sun started out around 1980 with some hardware hackers (mainly) from Stanford talking to some software hackers (mainly) from UC Berkeley; Sun's original technology concept married a clever board design based on the Motorola 68000 to BSD Unix. Sun went on to lead the workstation industry through the 1980s, and for years afterwards remained an engineering-driven company and a good place for hackers to work. Though Sun drifted away from its techie origins after 1990 and has since made some strategic moves that disappointed and annoyed many hackers (especially by maintaining proprietary control of Java and rejecting Linux), it's still considered within the family in much the same way DEC was in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Sun, () Sun Microsystems.

Sun, () (Heb. shemesh), first mentioned along with the moon as the two great luminaries of heaven (Gen. 1:14-18). By their motions and influence they were intended to mark and divide times and seasons. The worship of the sun was one of the oldest forms of false religion (Job 31:26,27), and was common among the Egyptians and Chaldeans and other pagan nations. The Jews were warned against this form of idolatry (Deut. 4:19; 17:3; comp. 2 Kings 23:11; Jer. 19:13).

Sun, LA -- U.S. village in Louisiana

Population (2000): 471

Housing Units (2000): 217

Land area (2000): 4.319367 sq. miles (11.187108 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.143069 sq. miles (0.370547 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 4.462436 sq. miles (11.557655 sq. km)

FIPS code: 73955

Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22

Location: 30.650085 N, 89.900148 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Sun, LA

Sun

Sunbeam (n.) A beam or ray of the sun.

Sunbird (n.) Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true singing birds (Oscines).

Sunbird (n.) The sun bittern.

Sunblink (n.) A glimpse or flash of the sun.

Sunbonnet (n.) A bonnet, generally made of some thin or light fabric, projecting beyond the face, and commonly having a cape, -- worn by women as a protection against the sun.

Sunbow (n.) A rainbow; an iris.

Sunburned (imp. & p. p.) of Sunburn.

Sunburnt () of Sunburn.

Sunburning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sunburn.

Sunburn (v. t.) To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan.

Sunburn (n.) The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan.

Sun-burner (n.) A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings.

Sunburning (n.) Sunburn; tan.

Sunburst (n.) A burst of sunlight.

Sundart (n.) Sunbeam.

Sunda Strait (n.) 巽他海峽（英文：Sunda Strait；印尼語：Selat Sunda）是印尼爪哇島與蘇門答臘之間的海峽，連接爪哇海與印度洋。

巽他海峽呈東北／西南向，西部靠近爪哇海溝因此非常深，但海峽東部最窄處僅24公里寬，最淺處僅20公尺深，因而沙州、強潮汐和人造的障礙物如爪哇島近岸油井，都使船隻導航困難。雖然如此，巽他海峽在數個世紀以來都是重要的航道，尤其在荷蘭東印度公司把它用作通往印尼香料群島（英語：Spice Islands）的通道。淺而窄的海峽，加上不夠精確的海圖，使現代大型船舶難以通行，而相鄰的馬六甲海峽最窄處2.8公里、航道最淺處25公尺，並不比巽他海峽更好。[1] 所以，超級油輪與運輸巴西、西澳鐵礦砂的超級散貨輪的航路一般選擇龍目海峽（最淺250公尺）與望加錫海峽（航道最淺超過900公尺）。實際上，這就是生物地理學上著名的華萊士線。

The Sunda Strait is the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. It connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean. The name comes from the Indonesian term Pasundan, meaning "West Java". It also comes from the name of the Sundanese people, the native people of West Java, with the Javanese people being found mostly in Central and East Java. [1]

Sunday (n.) The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day.

Sunday (a.) Belonging to the Christian Sabbath.

Sunday (n.) [ C ] (Written abbreviation Sun.) (A1) 周日，星期日，星期天，主日 The day of the week after Saturday and before Monday, when most people in Western countries do not go to work.

// We're going to visit my aunt and uncle on Sunday.

// They go to church on Sundays.

// The choir is giving a concert next Sunday.

// I haven't done any exercise since last Sunday.

// New Year's Day this year is a Sunday.

// Sunday morning/ afternoon/ evening/ night.

// A traditional British Sunday lunch of roast beef and vegetables.

Sundered (imp. & p. p.) of Sunder.

Sundering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sunder.

Sunder (v. t.) To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends.

It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. -- Carew.

Sunder (v. i.) To part; to separate. [R.] -- Shak.

Sunder (n.) A separation into parts; a division or severance.

In sunder, Into parts. "He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder." -- Ps. xlvi. 9.

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