| 单词 | librate |
| 例句 | As a consequence, while Enceladus moves through its slightly elliptical orbit, Saturn's gravitational field rocks the moon back and forth - or 'librates' it by tiny amounts. Philae's Real-Time Descent and Enceladus's Global Ocean [Video] 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Cause of librations.—That the moon should librate is by no means so remarkable a fact as that it should at all times turn very nearly the same face toward the earth. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z At this period the balance of tropic and pole librates, and the vast atmospheric tides pour their flood upon one hemisphere and their ebb upon another. Toilers of the Sea He proceeded to see if by making the planet librate, or the plane of its orbit tilt up and down, anything could be done. Pioneers of Science Whence the objects appear to librate or circulate according to the motions of our heads, which is called dizziness; and we lose the means of balancing ourselves, or preserving our perpendicularity, by vision. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The irritative motions that belong to the sense of pressure, or of touch, are attended to, and the patient conceives the bed to librate, and is fearful of falling out of it. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life In a general way a cable keeps a ship anchored in the same place, although wind and waves may cause it to "librate" about the anchor. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z Antonyms: pointless, dull. pointer, n. indicator, index. pointing, n. sharpening; punctuation; designation, indication. poise, n. equipoise, balance, equilibrium. poise, v. balance, librate. poison, n. venom, virus, toxine, toxicant, irritant, taint, bane, ptomaine. Putnam's Word Book But to borrow a term from astronomy, it is a librating mesothesis: for it may verge more to likeness as in painting, or more to difference, as in sculpture. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The child then drops upon the ground, and the neighbouring objects seem to continue for some seconds of time to circulate around him, and the earth under him appears to librate like a balance. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life |
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