Eclipses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ECLIPSES in dictionary:

VERB:
• (of a celestial body) obscure the light from or to (another celestial body)
• deprive (someone or something) of significance or power
• obscure or block out (light)
NOUN:
• ECLIPSIS, a figure of syntax
• an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination
• a loss of significance or power in relation to another person or thing
• a phase during which the distinctive markings of a bird (especially a male duck) are obscured by moulting of the breeding plumage
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to obscure

Words related to ECLIPSES

eclipse11 eclipsed13 eclipsing14 eclipsis12 eclipsises14

How to use ECLIPSES in a sentence

• Eclipses furnished more frequent occasions for the exercise of their talent.
• The sun itself passes through eclipses, as it gives light to the bodies which revolve around it.
• He also pointed out how longitude might be determined by observing the eclipses of the sun and moon.
• Astronomers foretell eclipses, say how long comets are to stay with us, point out where a new planet is to be found.
• It not only eclipses the glory of the Gospel, but strikes out the sun.
• Ptolemy, the Egyptian astronomer, possessed a Babylonian record of eclipses, going back 747 years before our era.
• At a very remote historical period the mechanism of eclipses had been discovered.
• The art of man has long been striving to imitate them, but the simplest flower that blooms still eclipses their best performances.
• Their acquaintance with this cycle would enable them to predict lunar eclipses with accuracy for many ages, and solar eclipses without much inaccuracy for the next cycle or two.
• In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
• These total eclipses occur about three times in four years, but a total eclipse for any given region does not occur oftener than once in two hundred years.
• The most timid minds troubled themselves quite as little about them as about eclipses of the sun and moon, which are equally subject to calculation.
• Its effect will be to alter in some degree the calculations of ancient eclipses.
• I have heard it said that her splendour eclipses that of all the Saints as the rising sun makes all the stars disappear.
• Something touching the Nature of Eclipses, and also of their Effects.
• They contained other observations on solar eclipses and the rising of the signs of the zodiac, extracted by him from the tables ascribed to the Indian king, Figar.
• Arzachal left a work on eclipses, and on the revolution of years, as well as the tables of the sky, to which the name of Toledan tables have been given.
• In Indian mythology, eclipses are caused by the dragon Rahu attempting to swallow up the moon.
• In Tasso the poet predominates over the philosopher, in Bruno the philosopher predominates over and eclipses the poet.
• The darkness on the days you mention were the result of solar eclipses.
• To them the eclipses were portents of evil, and their causes hidden in mystery, and supernatural.
• The head was called Rahu, and became the cause of eclipses, by endeavouring at various times to swallow the sun and moon.
• Many primitive languages have a formal richness, a latent luxuriance of expression, that eclipses anything known to the languages of modern civilization.
• The same reasons which explain the decadence of Babylon show us the causes of the periodic eclipses undergone by Assyria after each outburst of her warlike spirit.
• I often employed myself in drawing rude maps of the solar system, and diagrams illustrating the theory of solar eclipses.
• We know to a second when these eclipses take place, and they can be seen with a small telescope.
• To astronomy, the calculation of eclipses, and the laws of gravitation he devoted much thought, guided by the most scientific men England could then produce.
• The moon, when it eclipses the sun, appears as a blemish in the body of that luminary.
• Eclipses are due to a dragon trying to eat the sun or the moon.
• One would think that people living in the open air must be accustomed to see such eclipses sufficiently often, not to be particularly astonished at them.

Similar words containing ECLIPSE without suffix s

eclipse11 eclipsed13 eclipser12 eclipsers13 uneclipsed15

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