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/ˈsʌnˌdaɪ.əl/ · noun
A device measuring the time of day by the position of a shadow cast by a pole or plate (gnomon) upon an engraved series of marks..
The birdbath includes a small gnomon that acts as a sundial with markings on the basin if it's aligned correctly with the sun.
Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
The shop carries more than a dozen sundials, mostly of bronze, plus an astrolabe ($650) of wrought iron.
It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row.
Use sun dial when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sun dial means A device measuring the time of day by the position of a shadow cast by a pole or plate (gnomon) upon an engraved series of marks..
Common synonyms include dial, horologe, horologium.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The birdbath includes a small gnomon that acts as a sundial with markings on the basin if it's aligned correctly with the sun.
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