Word Finder - stars

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Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots.

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A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included.

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A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points.

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An actor in a leading role.

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Many Hollywood stars attended the launch party.

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An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.

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His teacher tells us he is a star pupil.

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An asterisk (*).

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A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.

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A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.

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A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.

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What's in the stars for you today? Find out in our horoscope.

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A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.

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A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.

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To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.

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To feature (a performer or a headliner), especially in a movie or an entertainment program.

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To mark with a star or asterisk.

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To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.

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To shine like a star.

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(with "the") Outer space.

The stars were brilliant this evening.

The sky was clear and stars bright.

Moon and stars were bright overhead.

The stars didn't shine quite so bright in the immortal world, and the sky didn't seem as endless.

The sky was dark, the stars plentiful and bright.

Bright stars shone out here and there in the sky.

The stars are called the earth's brothers and sisters.

He looked up to see the stars beginning to twinkle as the clouds moved out.

I suppose you feel so, too, when you gaze up to the stars in the stillness of the night, do you not?...

The stars are so far away that people cannot tell much about them, without very excellent instruments.

There were stars in the sky and the new moon shone out amid the smoke that screened it.

You see the stars and the moon instead of how dark the night is.

Posters of teen pop stars populated her cousin's wall.

A Cnossian didrachm exhibits on one side the labyrinth, on the other the Minotaur surrounded by a semicircle of small balls, probably intended for stars; it is to be noted that one of the monster' s names was Asterius.

That night they slept under the stars - Bordeaux a respectable distance from her, but close enough to assist if anything went wrong in the night.

The night was clear and cool, the sky a beautiful pageant of dark blue silk and brilliant stars, of streaking meteors and two glowing orbs.

But in OS measures index error can be eliminated by bisecting both stars with the same web (or different webs of known interval fixed on the same frame), and not employing the fixed web at all.

I miss the stars.

The moon is full, the sky full of stars.

The angle between two objects, such as stars or the opposite limbs of the sun, was measured by directing an arm furnished with fine " sights " (in the sense of the " sights " of a rifle) first upon one of the objects and then upon the other (q.v.), or by employing an instrument having two arms, each furnished with a pair of sights, and directing one pair of sights upon one object and the second pair upon the other.

She tossed her head back to stare at the stars.

The sounds of fighting grew faint and then disappeared.  The stream wound through the jungle until it reached a small waterfall that fed into a massive lake whose black surface reflected the stars and moon.  Katie slid down the hill beside the waterfall to the lake's edge, uncertain what to do.  Gabriel hadn't mentioned the stream ending or the lake.

These include the mutual distances of some of the stars in the Pleiades, a few observations of the apparent diameter of the sun, others of the distance of the moon from neighbouring stars, and a great number of measurements of the diameter of the moon.

It was used by him in his earliest observations of double stars (1779-1783); but, even in his hands, the measurements were comparatively crude, because of the difficulties he had to encounter from the want of a parallactic mounting.

For the measurement of wider stars he invented his lamp-micrometer, in which the components of a double star observed with the right eye were made to coincide with two lucid points placed io ft.

In the case of close double stars he estimated the distance in terms of the disk of the components.

The " beehive cluster " Praesepe in Cancer is an example of an easily resolved cluster composed of fairly bright stars.

About 10,000 stars altogether were dealt with in the above-mentioned investigations.

Balmer's formula received a striking confirmation when it was found to include the ultra-violet lines which were discovered by Sir William Huggins' in the photographic spectra of stars.

Aristotle could not know enough, physically, about Nature to understand its matter, or its motions, or its forces; and consequently he fell into the error of supposing a primary matter with four contrary primary qualities, hot and cold, dry and moist, forming by their combinations four simple bodies, earth, water, air and fire, with natural rectilineal motions to or from the centre of the earth; to which he added a quintessence of ether composing the stars, with a natural circular motion round the earth.

In order to obtain the declination a pivoted magnet is used to obtain the magnetic meridian, the geographical meridian being obtained by observations on the sun or stars.

Hence, however carefully a compass may be placed and subsequently compensated, the mariner has no safety without constantly observing the bearings of the sun, stars or distant terrestrial objects, to ascertain its deviation.

The regularity of their diurnal revolutions could not escape notice, and a good deal was known 2000 years ago about the motions of the sun and moon and planets among the stars.

He attained correct views as to the character of centrifugal force in connexion with Galileo's theory; and, when the fact of the variation of gravity (Galileo's acceleration) in different latitudes first became known from the results of pendulum experiments, he at once perceived the possibility of connecting such a variation with the fact of the earth's diurnal rotation relatively to the stars.

This is not inconsistent with the law of gravitation, for such estimates as have been made of planetary perturbations due to stars give results which are insignificant in comparison with quantities at present measurable.

Practically clocks are regulated by reference to the diurnal rotation of the earth relatively to the stars, which affords a measurement on the repetition principle agreeing with other methods, but more accurate than that given by any existing clock.

From about 1864 he occupied himself almost exclusively with spectrum analysis, both of stars (Catalogo delle stelle di cui si e determinato lo spettro luminoso, Paris, 1867, 8vo; "Sugli spettri prismatici delle stelle fisse," two parts, 1868, in the Atti della Soc. Ital.) and of the sun (Le Soleil, Paris, 1870, 8vo; 2nd ed., 1877).

The Godhead was really one; it was the soul of the eternal world, displaying its beneficence on the earth, as well as in the sun and stars (ii.12 seq., 154 seq.).

In the middle ages it was a common practice for sovereigns and princes to dub each other knights much as they were afterwards, and are now, in the habit of exchanging the stars and ribbons of their orders.

The ribbon and badges of the knights grand cross (civil and military) and the stars are illustrated on Plate II., figs.

The badges, stars and ribbons of the knights grand commanders of the two orders are illustrated on Plate III., figs.

From 1855 to 1859 he acted as director of the Dudley observatory at Albany, New York; and published in 1859 a discussion of the places and proper motions of circumpolar stars to be used as standards by the United States coast survey.

This was followed by a zone-catalogue of 73,160 stars (1884), and a general catalogue (1885) compiled from meridian observations of 32,448 stars.

The pious Nosairi takes his rank among the stars, but the body of the impious undergoes many transformations.

A further extension is given by some writers, who use the term as synonymous with the religions of primitive peoples, including under it not only the worship of inanimate objects, such as the sun, moon or stars, but even such phases of primitive philosophy as totemism.

So little was the scientific conception of the solar system familiar to Epicurus that he could reproach the astronomers, because their account of an eclipse represented things otherwise than as they appear to the senses, and could declare that the sun and stars were just as large as they seemed to us.

The stars in their courses fought against him, and at the time of his death he saw how far beyond his power were the forces with which even Charles had been unable to contend.

Professor Petrie has indeed suggested, chiefly on chronological grounds, that a table of stars on the ceiling of the Ramesseum temple and another in the tomb of Rameses VI.

The titles of several temple books are preserved recording the movements and phases of the sun, moon and stars.

On the different days of the year each hour was determined by a fixed star culminating or nearly culminating in it, and the position of these stars at the time is given in the tables as in the centre, on the left eye, on the right shoulder, &c. According to the texts, in founding or rebuilding temples the north axis was determined by the same apparatus, and we may condude that it was the usual one for astronomical observations.