meteor
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Sheriff's deputies there say they didn't see the meteor -- or a meteor, for that matter.
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- noun A bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere. Also called falling star, meteor burst, shooting star.
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- What remained of its walls served the count's staff as a meteor -- rampart during showers, yet they were low enough to be well below the horizon from the center of the crater, giving the count what was effectively a level plain in all directions. — A Case Of Conscience
- I thought briefly that the meteor might be another thing entirely, a cosmic egg of some star-dwelling bird. — The Dragons of Chaos
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Sheriff's deputies there say they didn't see the meteor -- or a meteor, for that matter.
— CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2008 -
"It's not obvious, but the title had a joke to it, in that a meteor is something that burns itself out," he says.
— London Swings! Again! -
We had our faces towards the south, and the course of the meteor was across the south, but not very high, at about the third of the circle of the heavens.
— Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government
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- Middle English metheour, atmospheric phenomenon, from Old French meteore, from Medieval Latin meteōrum, from Greek meteōron, astronomical phenomenon, from neuter of meteōros, high in the air : meta-, meta- + -āoros, lifted; akin to āeirein, to lift up; see wer-1 in Indo-European roots.
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/ (mēˈtē-ər, -ôrˌ)/
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