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单词 superior planets
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planet /planˈit/

noun
  1. Any of the large celestial bodies that revolve about the sun reflecting the sun's light and generating no heat or light of their own, these being Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
  2. A satellite of a planet (secondary planet)
  3. An astrological influence vaguely conceived
  4. (in old astronomy) a heavenly body whose place among the fixed stars is not fixed (including sun and moon)
ORIGIN: Fr planète, from Gr planētēs wanderer, from planaein to make to wander

planetāˈrium noun (pl planetāˈria)

  1. A machine showing the motions and orbits of the planets, often by the projecting of their images onto a (domed) ceiling
  2. A hall or building containing such a machine

planˈetary adjective

  1. Relating to the planets or a planet, or this planet
  2. Consisting of or produced by planets
  3. Under the influence of a planet (astrology)
  4. Erratic
  5. Revolving in an orbit

planetesˈimal noun

In one theory of the origin of the solar system, any of many very small units absorbed into the planets as these formed

planetic /plən-etˈik/ or planetˈical adjective

planˈetoid noun

  1. An asteroid
  2. An artificial body put into orbit

planetoiˈdal adjective

planetolˈogist noun

planetolˈogy noun

The science of the planets

planetary gear noun

A gearwheel that travels around a central gearwheel

planetary nebula noun

A ring-shaped nebula around a star, consisting of a shell of gas, illuminated by the star's short-wave radiation

planˈet-strickˈen or planˈet-struck adjective (astrology)

  1. Affected by the influence of the planets, esp adversely
  2. Blasted

inferior planets

The planets within the earth's orbit (Mercury and Venus)

minor planet

A rocky object that orbits the sun but is smaller than a planet

on another planet (informal)

Not in touch with reality

superior planets

The planets outside the earth's orbit

superior /soo- or sū-pēˈri-ər/

adjective
  1. Upper
  2. Higher in nature, place, rank, or excellence
  3. Better (with to)
  4. Surpassing others
  5. Beyond the influence, rising above (with to)
  6. Supercilious or uppish
  7. Very worthy and highly respectable (often patronizing)
  8. Of wider application, generic
  9. Set above the level of the line (printing)
  10. (of an ovary) inserted on the receptacle above the other parts (botany)
  11. (of other parts) seeming to arise above the ovary (botany)
noun
  1. A person or thing superior to others
  2. The head of a religious house, order, etc
  3. The feudal lord of a vassal (historical)
  4. A person to whom feu-duty was paid (Scots law; obsolete)
ORIGIN: L, compar of superus on high, from super above

supeˈrioress noun

The head of a nunnery

superiority /-orˈi-ti/ noun

  1. The quality or state of being superior
  2. Pre-eminence
  3. Advantage
  4. The right which the superior enjoyed in the land held by the vassal (Scots law; obsolete)

supeˈriorly adverb

In a superior manner or position

supeˈriorship noun

superior conjunction noun

A conjunction of Venus or Mercury with the sun when the sun lies between the planet and the earth

superior court noun

A court intermediate between an inferior court (eg a magistrate's or district court) and a high court

superiority complex noun (psychology)

Overvaluation of one's worth, often affected to cover a sense of inferiority

superior planets plural noun

Those more distant from the sun than the earth is
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