[
UK
/sˈʌndaɪəl/
]
[ US /ˈsənˌdaɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsənˌdaɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
- timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial
How To Use sundial In A Sentence
- Its massive sundials and other structures are a geometry of red sandstone inlaid with dazzling white marble, more like works of modern art than scientific instruments.
- Sundial maker Malcolm Barnfield and stonemason Dave Baguley installed the beautiful stone sundial at the top north-west corner of The Wilds, on Sunday, 8 May.
- Over thousands of years, the accuracy of maps didn't improve significantly faster than the accuracy of primitive timepieces such as the sundial or water clock.
- Sundial maker Malcolm Barnfield and stonemason Dave Baguley installed the beautiful stone sundial at the top north-west corner of The Wilds, on Sunday, 8 May.
- In the inner courtyard an attractive sundial catches the eye of the visitor.
- To ensure that the sundial registered roughly the correct time all the year round the gnomon had to be set at exactly the correct angle.
- The poem as philosophical-historical sundial clearly applies to great European lyric poets such as Rilke and Celan.
- However, sundials are a surprisingly unreliable means of telling the time.
- A tall, thin, basalt head of Caelus Nin, Sumifan god of time and patron of the ancestors formed the sundial's double-faced gnomon and stood silent entry at the village's main gate. Song of Time
- For, as you may have guessed, the sundial is a symbol. Penguin Persons & Peppermints