单词 | galaxy |
释义 | galaxygal‧ax‧y /ˈɡæləksi/ ●○○ noun (plural galaxies) ![]() ![]() WORD ORIGINgalaxy ExamplesOrigin: 1300-1400 Late Latin galaxias, from Greek, from gala ‘milk’; because the Galaxy looks milky white from the EarthEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
THESAURUSin the sky► star Collocations a large ball of burning gas in space, which can be seen at night as a point of light in the sky: · The dark night sky was clear and full of stars. ► planet one of the large objects that goes around the Sun, for example the Earth, Saturn, Mercury, or Mars: · The planet Uranus was discovered in 1781. ► sun the star that gives us light and heat, around which the planets move. There are also many millions of other suns in the universe: · The sun came out from behind a cloud.· a dying sun ► moon the round object that moves around the Earth every 28 days, or a similar object that goes around another planet: · The moon rose in the night sky.· Titan is one of the moons of Saturn. ► asteroid a mass of rock that moves around the sun. Most asteroids are found between Jupiter and Mars: · the asteroid belt ► pulsar a type of star that is far away in space and produces radiation and radio waves ► quasar an object like a star that is far away in space and shines extremely brightly ► supernova a very large exploding star ► constellation a group of stars that forms a particular pattern and has a name: · The constellation of Orion is one of the most easily recognizable patterns of stars in the night sky. ► galaxy one of the large groups of stars that make up the universe: · Astronomers have detected a galaxy 11 billion light years away. ► the universe all space, including all the stars and planets: · How many planets in the universe have life? WORD SETS► Astronomyasteroid, nounastro-, prefixastronaut, nounastronomical, adjectiveastronomy, nounastrophysics, nounAU, aurora borealis, nounBig Bang, the, nounblack hole, nouncelestial, adjectivecomet, nounconstellation, nouncorona, nouncosmic, adjectivecosmic ray, nouncosmology, nouncosmonaut, noundead, adjectiveearth, nouneclipse, nouneclipse, verbecliptic, nounequinox, nounescape velocity, nounextraterrestrial, adjectivegalactic, adjectivegalaxy, noungeostationary orbit, nounHubble Space Telescope, the, infinity, nounintergalactic, adjectiveinterplanetary, adjectiveinterstellar, adjectiveJupiter, nounlaunch, verblaunch, nounlight year, nounLittle Bear, lunar, adjectivelunar month, nounmagnitude, nounMars, nounMercury, nounmeteor, nounmeteoric, adjectivemeteorite, nounMilky Way, the, month, nounmoon, nounmorning star, nounNASA, nounnebula, nounNeptune, nounnew moon, nounnova, nounobservatory, nounorbit, verborbit, nounorbiter, nounouter space, nounphase, nounplanet, nounplanetarium, nounplasma, nounPluto, nounquadrant, nounquarter, nounquasar, nounradio telescope, nounring, nounrocket, nounsatellite, nounSaturn, nounsea, nounshooting star, nounsolar, adjectivesolar system, nounspace, nounspace capsule, nounspacecraft, nounspace probe, nounspaceship, nounspace shuttle, nounspace station, nounstar, nounstargazer, nounsteady state theory, nounstellar, adjectivesun, nounsunspot, nounsupernova, nountelescope, nountelescopic, adjectiveterrestrial, adjectiveUranus, nounVenus, nounwane, verbwax, verbwhite dwarf, nounworld, nounzenith, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a distant planet/galaxy/star Phrases· They saw telescope images of the distant planet Neptune. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► distant· In the 1920s Edwin Hubble observed that distant galaxies look redder than nearby ones.· High-tech digital cameras are used extensively in astronomy to capture dim light from distant galaxies.· It was slightly fuzzy and presumably a distant galaxy.· Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies.· Observations of distant galaxies indicate that they are moving away from us: The universe is expanding.· Light given out by distant galaxies has to swim against the tide of expansion to get to us.· But if we look at distant galaxies, there seems to be more or less the same number of them.· It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred. ► other· From any chosen viewpoint it looks as though every other galaxy is going away from you.· Most of the stuff missing was from Mr Marr's extensive collection of material dealing with invasions from other galaxies. VERB► move· It starts at zero and eventually the galaxies are moving apart at a steady speed.· However, the speed at which the galaxies are moving apart gets smaller and smaller, although it never quite reaches zero.· In Friedmann's model, all the galaxies are moving directly away from each other.· Sure enough, all the galaxies were moving away from our galaxy.· The galaxies then start to move toward each other and the universe contracts. PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the Galaxy 1[countable] one of the large groups of stars that make up the universe2the Galaxy the large group of stars which our Sun and its planets belong to3[singular] a large number of things that are similargalaxy of
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