Satellite
['sætəlaɪt]
Definition
(noun.) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon.
(noun.) any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star.
(noun.) a person who follows or serves another.
(verb.) broadcast or disseminate via satellite.
(adj.) surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power; 'a city and its satellite communities' .
Inputed by Barbara--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.
(n.) A secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under Solar.
(a.) Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries.
Edited by Edward
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Moon, secondary planet.[2]. Attendant, follower, dependant, retainer, vassal.
Typed by Eliza
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Attendant, follower, subordinate, shadow, associate, hanger-on, second
ANT:Leader, principal
Editor: Myra
Definition
n. an obsequious follower: one of the small members of the solar system attendant on the larger planets by which their motions are controlled.—ns. Sat′ellite-sphinx a large hawk-moth; Sat′ellite-vein a vein accompanying an artery; Satelli′tium an escort.
Editor: Rena
Examples
- The satellite was gone; and Mr Inspector, becoming once again the quiet Abbot of that Monastery, dipped his pen in his ink and resumed his books. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You want a satellite, Mars and his satellite! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The satellite removed his arm and opened the wicket, and Mr Julius Handford went out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Which a deferential satellite produced. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In the midst of this family circle, or rather outside it, moved the tutor--the satellite. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Again he turned towards the wicket, where the satellite, with his eye upon his chief, remained a dumb statue. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A satellite--a satellite of Mars--that's what she is to be! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You've said it, a satellite, you're not going to wriggle out of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yes, Louis Moore was a satellite of the house of Sympson--connected, yet apart; ever attendant, ever distant. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For the best part of one winter night himself and satellites were busied about Moore. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was able to make out the mountains in the moon, the satellites of Jupiter in rotation, the spots on the revolving sun; but his telescope afforded only an imperfect view of Saturn. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And the more detestable his actions are to the citizens the more satellites and the greater devotion in them will he require? Plato. The Republic.
- As Fries has well remarked, little groups of species are generally clustered like satellites around other species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He did not agree with Wright that t hey, or the cloudy areas, would prove to be stars or small satellites, but rather that both co nsisted of vapor particles. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Meanwhile the sun, disencumbered from his strange satellites, paced with its accustomed majesty towards its western home. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In the case of Sa turn there was such regularity in the rings that the annular form was maintained; as a rule from the zones abandon ed by the planet-mass satellites resulted. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Galileo had named the satellites of Jupiter after the house of Medici, to which this Duke belonged, and Cosimo was much flattered at the compliment. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Even then I would have followed her; but my foe and his satellites entered; I was surrounded, and taken prisoner. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Discovery of Satellites of Mars by Professor Asaph Hall, and its so-called Canals by Schiaparelli. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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