solar
part of speech
adjective (solar)
meaning for a pupil
Solar means to do with the Sun or coming from the Sun. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, the solar system is the Sun and everything that goes around it: eight planets, moons, asteroids and comets. Solar energy or solar power is energy from sunlight, collected by solar panels on roofs; it is renewable and clean. A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun; never look straight at the Sun, even in an eclipse. Solar-powered calculators and garden lights work using light.
examples
- Earth is the third planet in the solar system. tree →
- Solar panels turn sunlight into electricity. tree →
- My calculator is solar-powered. tree →
- Never look at the Sun during a solar eclipse. tree →
- Solar power is a renewable energy. tree →
- Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. tree →
- The solar lights in the garden come on at night. tree →
note
Adjective only (no «a solar»). Compare «lunar» (to do with the Moon). The solar system has eight planets (Pluto is now called a dwarf planet). Solar energy is renewable, unlike coal and oil.
In the corpora
- Kick through a pile of yellow and red leaves and you are walking on a tree's old solar panels.
- Solar power became about ten times cheaper between 2010 and 2020: what cost ten pounds in 2010 cost about one pound in 2020.
- A solar panel turns light straight into electricity; it makes less on a cloudy day and none at night.
- The Sun constantly blows out charged particles called the solar wind, which flows past all the planets at hundreds of kilometres per second.
- Never look at a solar eclipse with bare eyes or ordinary sunglasses; use proper eclipse glasses or a pinhole projector.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «solar» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.