Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To navigate a spacecraft.
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- verb science fiction, intransitive To astronavigate; to control and guide a
spacecraft .
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- verb navigate in space
- verb guide in interplanetary travel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
astro- + (navi)gate.
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Contraction of astronavigate.
Examples
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My Chief Engineer assures me that the Main Converter could be started, but we have no one fitted to astrogate.
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"Cripes -- I'm not sure I can even astrogate to the Moon," Two-and-Two was heard to complain.
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"Boy, it'll be a pleasure to ride a spaceship without having to astrogate," said Roger.
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"Two measly weeks out, two weeks to astrogate her back home.
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"And now you come along and tell us that we can get him to astrogate us out to Tara!
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Our sleeping friends will be able to astrogate them back to Dara without trouble, provided only that nobody comes out here to bother us before they leave. "
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"With _you_ to astrogate us, we may have a chance.
dontcry commented on the word astrogate
Blink....blink.
March 2, 2009
dontcry commented on the word astrogate
Thinking of a Jetsons reference...too wrung out to complete joke...needs Rosie now....
March 2, 2009