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URANUS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites

Example:

Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1781

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

gas giant; Jovian planet (any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter))

outer planet ((astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto))

superior planet (any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit)

Holonyms ("Uranus" is a member of...):

solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology

Synonyms:

Ouranos; Uranus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

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 Context examples: 

The two datasets shed light on atmospheric processes of not just Jupiter but also fellow gas giants Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as well as those of giant exoplanets now being discovered; they even shed light on atmospheric processes of Earth's cyclones.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

Uranus is the planet of surprise and is currently in your eleventh house of hopes and wishes.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They found the pattern in Uranus' rings was similar to moon-related structures in Saturn's rings called moonlet wakes.

(Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons, NASA)

In the image, the disk of Uranus is just barely resolved.

(Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus, NASA)

Uranus is now approaching the middle of its summer season, and the polar-cap region is becoming more prominent.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

The Gemini data, obtained with the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS), sampled reflected sunlight from a region immediately above the main visible cloud layer in Uranus' atmosphere.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

Uranus, the planet of surprise, will send an out-of-the-blue beam to Jupiter, which happens to rule your workaday sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Two of Uranus' 27 known moons, Ophelia and Cordelia, act as shepherds to Uranus' epsilon ring.

(Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons, NASA)

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured its first-ever image of the pale blue ice-giant planet Uranus in the distance beyond Saturn's rings.

(Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus, NASA)

Scientists believe this new feature is a result of Uranus' unique rotation.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)