Planet
['plænɪt]
Definition
(noun.) (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction.
(noun.) any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star.
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Definition
(n.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.
(n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men.
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Definition
n. one of the bodies in the solar system which revolve in elliptic orbits round the sun.—n. Planetā′rium a machine showing the motions and orbits of the planets.—adjs. Plan′etary pertaining to the planets: consisting of or produced by planets: under the influence of a planet: erratic: revolving; Planet′ic -al.—n. Plan′etoid a celestial body having the form or nature of a planet: one of a number of very small planets often called asteroids moving round the sun between Mars and Jupiter.—adjs. Planetoi′dal; Plan′et-strick′en Plan′et-struck (astrol.) affected by the influence of the planets: blasted.—n. Plan′etule a little planet.—Minor planets the numerous group of very small planets which is situated in the solar system between Mars and Jupiter.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a planet, foretells an uncomfortable journey and depressing work.
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Examples
- She was a study of such nature as had not encountered my eyes yet: a great and new planet she was: but in what shape? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Sir John Herschel, in an address before the British Association on September 10, said that the year past had given prospect of a new planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In September of the same year Eugèn e Bouvard had presented new tables of that planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is evident that the quest of the new planet had become general. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- During those two centuries the Japanese remained as completely cut off from the rest of the world as though they lived upon another planet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Had we continued the five thousand miles that lie between Thuria and the planet he would have been but the frozen memory of a man. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Adams started with the assumptions, not im probable, that the orbit of the unknown planet was a circle, and that its distance from the sun was tw ice that of Uranus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- What, then, would be the orbit of a planet under a central attraction varying as the inverse square of the distance? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Did the vitalizing air reach the people of that distant planet in time to save them? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- After that event Bode suggested that it was possible other astronomers had observed Uranus before, without recognizing it as a planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Together we may do still more to regenerate our dying planet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- This was an inverse problem; the perturbation being given, it was required to find the position, mass, and orbit of the disturbing planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- From the cooling and cont racting masses that were to constitute the planets smaller zones and rings were formed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They were familiar; many of them commonplaces--sun, moon, planets, weight, distance, mass, square of numbers. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What happy combination of the planets presided over her birth, I wonder? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- About it at great distances circle not only our earth, but certain kindred bodies called the planets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our earth is one of these planets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The relative thickness of the rims is perhaps designed to express the relative distances of the planets. Plato. The Republic.
- The curates, herding together after their manner, made a constellation of three lesser planets. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The most enduring of all--steady unaltering eyes like Planets--signified wood, such as hazel-branches, thorn-faggots, and stout billets. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That is only one example out of thousands that to me prove beyond the possibility of a doubt that some vast Intelligence is governing this and other planets. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At Cairo about the close of the tenth century the first accurate records of eclipses were made, and tables were constructed of the motions of the sun, moon, and planets. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was thus that the hypothesis that the planets move in circular orbits, recommended by its simplicity and ?sthetic quality, was forced to give way to the hyp othesis of elliptical orbits. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Dr. John himself was one of those on whose birth benign planets have certainly smiled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is slowly distorted by the attractions of the other planets, for ages it may be nearly circular, for ages it is more or less elliptical. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Neptune's orbit is more nearly circular than that of any of the major planets except Venus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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