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Lana Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Redemption

0 Is redemption the oppoosite of full moon as well? If not, what is? 0-
  

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0Reduce your medications at once, and try posting this again! 050010id1
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0 Hi Lana, 02br
00As CJ said, redemption has nothing to do with the situation of the moon in the sky. So, did you mean "crescent"? 0-
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0 Lol, I'm not taking anything. 02br
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00I saw these two words together somewhere and it looked like they were the opposite of each other. I didn't find this meaning in any dictionary so I really didn't know what to think. 02br
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00Does crescent mean that you can't see the moon at all on that day? 0-
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0 Hi Lana, 02br
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00The crescent moon is when the moon is less than half of a circle: 02br
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0 Lana - the opposite of a full moon is called a "new moon" - that is, when the moon is not visible at all. Here's a pretty good site about the phases of the moon - 05000 0250hrefhttp://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/moon_phases.html
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0 Hi Lana, 02br
00I forgot to give you the definition of "redemption". Here it goes: 02br
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00 Redemption is the act of redeeming something or of being redeemed by something. (FORMAL) 02br
00 ...redemption of the loan. 02br
00 ...regional differences in the frequency of cash redemptions and quota payment. 02br
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0 Thank you. 02br
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00I knew most of the other meanings of redeem and redemption, so I found it even more confusing that it was used together with full moon. 05002br
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00Do you really use all these words in daily speech: crescent, quarter and gibbous? 010id7
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0 No, Lana. I have never refrred to a "gibbous moon"! I think it's reserved for poetic expression. We talk about the "full moon", "new moon", sometimes a "crescent moon" and the "harvest moon". Mostly we would probably say "look at the moon" 0-
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0 I used all these expresssions in daily conversation, but only while my ten-year-old daughter was studying the solar system in school. "Oh, look, is that a waxing gibbous moon or a waning gibbous moon?" I think it's more a scientific expression than a poetic one. Usually, as Abbie says, we just say, "look at the moon." 0-
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