different between meteor vs astroid

English

Etymology

From Middle French météore, from Old French, from Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (meté?ron), from ???????? (meté?ros, “raised from the ground, hanging, lofty”), from ???? (metá, “in the midst of, among, between”) (English meta) + ????? (aeír?, “to lift, to heave, to raise up”).

The original sense of “atmospheric phenomenon” gave rise to meteorology, but the meaning of "meteor" is now restricted to extraterrestrial objects burning up as they enter the atmosphere.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mi?t??/, /?mi?t???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?miti?/, [?mi?i?]

• Homophone: meatier

Noun

meteor (plural meteors)

1. A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star.
2. (archaic) Any atmospheric phenomenon. (Thus the derivation of meteorology.) These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars).
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     A meteor in the hazy air
     Play’d before his path;
     Before him now it roll’d
     A globe of livid fire; […]
     And now its wavy point
     Up-blazing rose, like a young cypress-tree
     Sway’d by the heavy wind;
     Anon to Thalaba it mov’d,
     And wrapt him in its pale innocuous fire

3. (juggling) A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
4. (martial arts) A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
5. (figuratively) Any short-lived source of wonderment.

Usage notes

• (streak of light in night sky): Not to be confused with meteoroid and meteorite (cause and remains of a meteor), or asteroid and comet (celestial bodies).

Quotations

• p. 1859 December, Herman Melville, “The Portent (1859)”

  But the streaming beard is shown

  (Weird John Brown),

  The meteor of the war.

Synonyms

• (streak of light in night sky): falling star, shooting star, faxed star

Coordinate terms

• (astronomical phenomenon): asteroid, comet

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

meteor (third-person singular simple present meteors, present participle meteoring, simple past and past participle meteored)

1. (intransitive) To move at great speed.

Further reading

• meteor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ometer, emoter, ometer, remote

Catalan

Noun

meteor m (plural meteors)

1. meteor

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?t?or]

Noun

meteor m

1. meteor (fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere)

See also

• létavice
• pov?tro?

Further reading

• meteor in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• meteor in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Hungarian

Etymology

From English meteor or German Meteor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?t?or]
• Hyphenation: me?te?or
• Rhymes: -or

Noun

meteor (plural meteorok)

1. (astronomy) meteor (a fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere)

Declension

References

Further reading

• meteor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (meté?ron)

Noun

meteor m (definite singular meteoren, indefinite plural meteorer, definite plural meteorene)

1. a meteor

Synonyms

• stjerneskudd, stjerneskott

Derived terms

• meteoritt

References

• “meteor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (meté?ron)

Noun

meteor m (definite singular meteoren, indefinite plural meteorar, definite plural meteorane)

1. a meteor

Synonyms

• stjerneskot, stjerneskott

Derived terms

• meteoritt

References

• “meteor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??t?.?r/

Noun

meteor m inan

1. (astronomy) meteor

Declension

Further reading

• meteor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /met?o?r/
• Hyphenation: me?te?or

Noun

metè?r m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (astronomy) meteor

Declension

Swedish

Noun

meteor c

1. meteor

Declension

Related terms

• meteorit

See also

• meteorologi

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ?????? (ástron, “a star”) + ????? (eîdos, “form, likeness”).

Noun

astroid (plural astroids)

1. (geometry) A hypocycloid with four cusps.

Related terms

• asteroid
• astronomy

Translations

See also

• asteroid

Further reading

• astroid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• astroid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Tirados