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Meaning eclipse meaning

What does eclipse mean?
Definitions in simple English

eclipse Noun

— An eclipse is when the light of the Sun or Moon is blocked.

eclipse Verb

— If something eclipses something else, it passes or overshadows it.

eclipse

— noun one celestial body obscures another — verb (= occult) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention The Sun eclipses the moon today Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies — verb (= overshadow) be greater in significance than the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness

Synonyms eclipse synonyms

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eclipse English » English

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Topics eclipse topics

What do people use eclipse to talk about?
Universe, creation Sky

Sun
Universe, creation Sky Sun

Moon
Person Sense, perceive See

Visible
States Quality Light Dark

Shadow

Conjugation eclipse conjugation

How do you conjugate eclipse?

eclipse · verb

Examples eclipse examples

How do I use eclipse in a sentence?

Simple sentences

There will be a lunar eclipse tomorrow.
The total solar eclipse can be observed next year on June 22nd.
A common misconception about Christopher Columbus is that he once impressed a tribe of natives by predicting the lunar eclipse. The truth of the matter is that he CAUSED it.
I couldn't see the lunar eclipse because of the clouds.
Did you see the lunar eclipse yesterday?
Did you see the solar eclipse yesterday?
Thales used the astronomical records of the Babylonians and Egyptians to accurately predict a solar eclipse in the sixth century BC.
Sometimes, as the Earth orbits the Sun, it comes between the Sun and the Moon. When this happens, the Earth throws a dark shadow across the Moon. This is known as an eclipse of the Moon, or a lunar eclipse.
During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse will be visible from the Faroe Islands, located northwest of Scotland, and the Svalbard Islands, located east of Greenland.
Tomorrow's total eclipse of the sun will be visible from the southern hemisphere.
The eclipse lasted for seven minutes.
A solar eclipse is when the Moon blocks the light from the Sun.
A lunar eclipse will be visible tonight.
Did you see the eclipse yesterday?

Movie subtitles

And if it does that, it's like a little eclipse and the starlight drops.
Drummed up a lot of excitement about. what he called a spectacular eclipse of the sun.
No eclipse.
Well, at the moment, her mind is in an eclipse.
Prehistoric man, for instance, could die of fright during an eclipse.
There's a lunar eclipse on the 12th.
Yes, we're waiting for the eclipse!
Look! - Eclipse?
There is to be an eclipse.
You mean an eclipse?
She'll be punished at the eclipse.
The feat you could accomplish would eclipse the name of Madame of Montespan, the King's favorite.
A total eclipse. Remember what I told you about that eclipse in Switzerland?
She will not suffer a subject to eclipse her, she cannot.
I seem to have gone into eclipse.
The time that we sold the smoked glass to watch the eclipse.
Today there will be an eclipse of the sun!
But now, now it is wielded by she who will eclipse all their deeds Arthur, Lancelot and even mighty Coeur de Lion.
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, slivered in the moon's eclipse.
It's like an eclipse.
I'm picking up a brilliant bead of light, like an eclipse.
A brilliant bead of light, like an eclipse.
The beginning of a new race of humanity that will finally eclipse our own.
According to NASA, today's solar eclipse is no cause for alarm.
Looks like an eclipse.
He was born during an eclipse.
Looking for a black cat in a coal hole during an eclipse of the sun would be a child's task compared with mine.
Eclipse!
Listen, there'll be a solar eclipse.
An eclipse like this happens once in 120 years.
It's a pity you won't see the eclipse.
I imagine the eclipse differently.
Is the eclipse all just for her?
It happens during an eclipse.
Look, he's walking on the roof with Bela, waiting for another eclipse.
Then we can see the eclipse.
Go out on the boat and see the eclipse?

News and current affairs

But these infant giants are quickly threatened with eclipse by even newer enterprises.
As Ukraine's agonizing struggle for democracy continues, Europeans wonder if the politics of principle can ever eclipse the politics of power.
France eventually regained its soul - but long after a dark eclipse of its most cherished democratic values.
Naturally, you would have to be in a position to explain - if challenged - what an eclipse is and how you know that.
Much depends on who is prime minister; heavyweight politicians holding the office can potentially eclipse the president.
And workers' remittances, which now eclipse aid as the biggest financial flows to low-income countries, are also falling.
Who Will Eclipse America?
SINGAPORE - Not a week passes, it seems, without a big-picture thinker releasing a big-picture book or giving a big-picture sermon describing the gradual eclipse of American hegemony in Asia.

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