summer

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   One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning either the period between the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, or the months of June, July, and Augucountableuncountable

   • the heat of summer
   • Gradually, the end of summer hove into sight.
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   year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.countablehumorouspoetic

   • He was barely eighteen summers old.
   • She had seen not more than twenty summers.
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   Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.countablefigurativelyuncountable

   • O! craving heart, for the lost flowers And sunshine of my summer hours!
   • Here we are in our summer years / Livin' on ice cream and chocolate kisses / Would the leaves fall from the trees / If I was your old man and you was my missus
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   Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.countable

ant. winter

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   To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.intransitive

   • She had summered in England and France and Germany and Switzerland. She had wintered in Italy and Egypt and India and Spain.
   • For he was an oddity, a black multimillionaire who summered on the Riviera, had an apartment in Paris and a penthouse, in a building he owned, high above Sugar Hill.

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   A horizontal beam supporting a building.

   • And we are warned, that the foundation or maine summers of our houses faile and shrinke, when we see the quarters bend, or wals to breake.
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   A pack-horse.obsolete

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   A person who sums.

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   A machine or algorithm that sums.

   • A basic feedback system consists of ... and a summing point (comparator or summer).
   • The output of the summer is therefore fed into the input of the first integrator.