rinn — meaning in English

English meaning

• cape noun A sleeveless outer garment that hangs from the shoulders and covers the back and arms.
• headland noun Coastal land that juts into the sea.
• planet noun A large, roughly spherical body that orbits a star, has cleared its orbital path of other debris, and is not itself a star.
• point noun The sharp or narrow end of something.
• promontory noun A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.

Senses

rinn is used for these senses in English:

• cape (geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
• celestial body (astronomy, astrology) A natural object which is located outside of Earth's atmosphere, such as a comet, an asteroid, the Moon, a planet, the Sun, or a star.
• compass point Any of the horizontal directions indicated on a compass. There may be 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or even 128 compass points on a compass, depending on its size and accuracy.
• headland Coastal land that juts into the sea.
• heavenly body A natural celestial object, visible in the sky, such as a star, planet, natural satellite, asteroid, comet, the Moon or the Sun. Objects flying or moving in the atmosphere are not usually considered as heavenly bodies.
• planet (astronomy, current) A body which is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally resulting in being an ellipsoid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, which directly orbits a star (or multiple star) and dominates the region of its orbit; specifically, in the case of the Solar system, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. [from 2006]
• point (heraldry) One of the "corners" of the escutcheon: the base (bottom center) unless a qualifier is added (point dexter, point dexter base, point sinister, point sinister base), generally when separately tinctured. (Compare terrace, point champaine, enté en point.) This is sometimes blazoned argent, four points gules; otherwise, it is vêtu.
• point The sharp tip of an object. [from 14th c.]

cape — full definition

1. noun A sleeveless outer garment that hangs from the shoulders and covers the back and arms.
2. noun A piece of land jutting out into the sea; a headland.

headland — full definition

1. noun Coastal land that juts into the sea.
2. noun The unplowed boundary of a field.

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