different between meteor vs planet

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

From Middle English planete, from Old French planete, from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek ???????? (plan?t?s, “wanderer”) (ellipsis of ???????? ??????? (plán?tes astéres, “wandering stars”)), from Ancient Greek ?????? (planá?, “wander about, stray”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Latin p?lor (“wander about, stray”), Old Norse flana (“to rush about”), and Norwegian flanta (“to wander about”). More at flaunt.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?plæn?t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?plæn?t/
• • Rhymes: -æn?t

Noun

planet (plural planets)

1. (now historical or astrology) Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. [from 14^thc.]
2. (astronomy) A body which orbits a star (or star cluster), is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally meaning a spheroid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, dominates the region of its orbit about the star; specifically, in the case of the Solar system, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto was considered a planet until it was reclassified as a dwarf planet by the IAU in 2006.) [from 17^thc.]
3. Found in phrases such as the planet, this planet to refer to the Earth.

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."

Usage notes

The term planet originally meant any star which wandered across the sky, and generally included comets and the Sun and Moon. With the Copernican revolution, the Earth was recognized as a planet, and the Sun was seen to be fundamentally different. The Galileian satellites of Jupiter were at first called planets (satellite planets), but later reclassified along with the Moon. The first asteroids were also considered to be planets, but were reclassified when it was realized that there were a great many of them, crossing each other's orbits, in a zone where only a single planet had been expected. Likewise, Pluto was found where an outer planet had been expected, but doubts were raised when it turned out to cross Neptune's orbit and to be much smaller than the expectation required. When Eris, an outer body more massive than Pluto, was discovered, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the word planet as above. However, a significant number have refused to accept the IAU definition, especially in the field of planetary geology. Some simply continue with the nine planets that had been recognized prior to the discovery of Eris. Others are of the opinion that orbital parameters should be irrelevant, and that either any equilibrium (ellipsoidal) body in direct orbit around a star is a planet (there are likely at least a dozen such bodies in the Solar system) or that any equilibrium body at all is a planet, thus re-accepting the Moon, the Galileian satellites and other large moons as planets.

Synonyms

Hypernyms

• planemo

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (planets of the Solar System) planets of the Solar System; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• moon
• orbit

References

• planet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• First Steps to Astronomy and Geography, 1828, (Hatchard & Son: Piccadilly, London).

Anagrams

• Plante, pental, platen

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plan?t]

Noun

planet m (indefinite plural planete, definite singular planeti, definite plural planetet)

1. planet

Declension

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin plan?ta and Ancient Greek ???????? (plan?t?s, “wanderer, planet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p???net]
• Hyphenation: pla?net

Noun

planet (definite accusative planeti, plural planetl?r)

1. planet

   Synonym: s?yyar?

Declension

Derived terms

• yadplanetli (“alien”)

Danish

Etymology

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Noun

planet c (singular definite planeten, plural indefinite planeter)

1. (astronomy) a planet

Inflection

Derived terms

German

Pronunciation

Verb

planet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of planen

Middle English

Noun

planet

1. Alternative form of planete (“planet”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse planéta, from Latin plan?ta, from Ancient Greek ???????? (plan?t?s, “wanderer”).

Noun

planet m (definite singular planeten, indefinite plural planeter, definite plural planetene)

1. a planet

Derived terms

• planetologi

Related terms

• planetarisk

References

• “planet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse planéta, from Latin plan?ta, from Ancient Greek ???????? (plan?t?s, “wanderer”).

Noun

planet m (definite singular planeten, indefinite plural planetar, definite plural planetane)

1. a planet

Derived terms

• planetologi

Related terms

• planetarisk

Etymology 2

Noun

planet n

1. definite singular of plan

References

• “planet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Noun

planet f

1. genitive plural of planeta

Romansch

Noun

planet m (plural planets)

1. (astronomy, astrology) planet

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Bosnia, Serbia): planéta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?ne?t/
• Hyphenation: pla?net

Noun

plàn?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. (usually Croatia) planet

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plané?t/

Noun

plan??t m inan

1. (astronomy) planet

Inflection

Derived terms

See also

• (planets of the Solar System) planéti osón?ja; Merkúr, Vénera, Zémlja, Márs, Júpiter, Satúrn, Urán, Neptún

Swedish

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (plan?t?s).

Pronunciation

Noun

planet c

1. (astronomy) planet

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

planet

1. definite singular of plan

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French planète.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?a?net/
• Hyphenation: pla?net

Noun

planet (definite accusative planeti, plural planetler)

1. (astronomy, rare) planet

   Synonym: gezegen

Declension