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Definition: Astern |
AsternAdverb1. Stern foremost or backward; "the steamer went astern at half speed". 2. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane; "stow the luggage aft"; "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"; "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about". 3. (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "astern" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Astern \A*stern"\, adverb. [Prefix a- stern.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Directly behind the vessel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Nautical term for the back part of a ship or boat; Refers to in or at the stern; Opposite of prow; To move aster:to go backwards. Source: European Union. (references) |
Shipping | - Behind a vessel - Move in a reverse direction. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AsternSynonyms: abaft (adv), aft (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: fore (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rear | Verb: be behind; adVerb: fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear. |
After, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost, aback, rearward. | |
Regression | Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Astern |
| English words defined with "astern": abaft, aft ♦ Cat-hole ♦ On the quarter ♦ Stern board, stern chaser, Sternmost ♦ To back the sails, To drop a vessel, To drop astern, To fall astern. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Astern" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (asters). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | Tautwire measuring machine By trailing wire astern and counting revolutions, one can determine distances Used to measure distance between floating hydrographic signals. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | RAR bomb being exploded astern of EXPLORER In vicinity of Islands of the Four Mountains. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A small menhaden vessel with auxiliary boats being towed astern. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A menhaden mother vessel with auxiliary boats astern. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Menhaden auxiliary vessels being towed astern of mother vessel. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Dory and crew caught to leeward in a storm while hauling the trawl Trawl-buoy and line drifted astern of the vessel for their rescue Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Huge breaking seas as seen from astern of the METEOR. Plate 40. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Aerial view of the disaster area, looking northward, seen from a plane assigned to USS Aroostook (CM-3). Visible are six of the seven destroyers that ran aground on Honda Point during the night of 8 September 1923. They are: USS Fuller (DD-297), at left; USS Woodbury (DD-309), just ahead of Fuller; USS Young (DD-312), capsized in the center of the view; USS Chauncey (DD-296), upright just ahead of Young; USS Nicholas (DD-311), beyond the rocks in the center; and USS Delphy (DD-261), capsized in the small cove between Chauncey and Nicholas. The remaining ship, USS S.P. Lee (DD-310), is out of sight behind the rocky point, astern of Nicholas. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Reconnaissance photograph, probably taken by the British Royal Air Force, showing the ship (marked by arrow) moored to the shore in the Fætten Fjord, about 30 KM ENE of Trondheim, Norway, 19 July 1942. Note rafts and netting used to camouflage the ship, and anti-torpedo booms moored to protect her from attacks from abeam and astern. Booms abeam have been folded to similate a ship. This image is cropped from Photo # NH 98269. Credit: NAVY. |  | Chesapeake Bay, Md., 1938--Skipjack Lady Eleanor entering Annapolis under power, a bugeye lies astern, and the automobile ferry is seen leaving for Matapeake, Md. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Astern" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Astern" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 74 | 38,813 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "astern": ad fall astern ♦ astern of ♦ astern refueling ♦ astern refuelling ♦ drop astern ♦ fall astern ♦ fallen astern ♦ furtherst astern ♦ go astern ♦ leave astern ♦ line astern ♦ To bake astern ♦ To be astern of the reckoning ♦ To drop astern ♦ To fall astern ♦ To go astern. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "astern": line-astern. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
astern | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "astern"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prapa (aback, after, back, backward, behind, overleaf), në kiç, mbrapsht (around, awry, back, backwards, in reverse, inside out, rearward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منجمة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | назад (aback, about, aft, after, back, backward, behind, lunge, rearwards, sternward), на кърмата (aft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vzadu (abaft, after, at the back, behind), na zádi (aft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | agterude, agter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | achtersteven (poop, poopdeck, stern), achter (after, at the back, behind), aan de achterkant (at the back, behind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پسین (Hinder, Hindmost, Last, Subsequent), درعقب کشتی , بطرف عقب (Abaft, Rearward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ahteri (stern), taaksepäin (back, backward), perässä (aft, after, behind, in the rear), peränpuolella. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sur l'arrière. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | achtern (abaft, aft), achteraus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κίνηση ανάποδα, πρύμνη (poop, stern), προσ την πρύμνην, προς την πρύμνη (abaft), πίσω από το πλοίο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מאחור (abaft, behind, from behind, rearwards), לאחור (backward, be late, behind, dally, overstay, rearwards, remain behind, reverse), אחור ית (aback, abaft, backwards, in reverse, rearwards). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hajó farán (astern of a ship), hátul (aft, back, behind, up-stage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | di belakang (abaft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | addietro (ago, back, before), a poppa (abaft, aft), poppavia, poppa (poop, poopdeck, stern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | 'sy jerrey, ergooyl (arrear; backwards, arrears; backwards, back, behind), cooyl (back, behind, reverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asternay a ré, para trás (aback, back, backward, backwards), ré (aft), popa (aft). (various references) la pupã (aft), înapoi (aback, back, backward, backwards), în spate (aback, abaft, behind, rearwards). (various references) за кормой (aft). (various references) po krmi. (various references) a popa (abaft, aft). (various references) akter ut (abaft, aft). (various references) ไปทางท้ายเรือ, ทางท้ายเรือ. (various references) arkaya (back, behind), arkada (behind), kıçta (aft), geriye (aback, back, backward, backwards, behind, re-, retro-), geride (back, behind, down). (various references) назад (aback, back, backward, backwards, counter, hark back, keep back, rearward, rearwards), на кормі (abaft, aft), за кормою (aft). (various references) giật lùi, ở xa đằng sau lùi, ở phía lái t u về phía sau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "astern": asternal. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "astern": eastern, northeastern, pastern, southeastern. (additional references) | |
Words containing "astern": easterner, easterners, easternmost, northeasternmost, pasterns, southeasternmost. (additional references) | |
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"Astern" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aeterna, aeternam, Alster, Arsten, ascern, Askeran, askern, aspern, assern, astan, astano, Astberg, astere, Asteri, astero, astery, Astler, astr, Astre, astrin, Atebrin, castern, Estern, Jastrun, mastern, Ostern, saltern, satern, satren. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: antres, sterna. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antes, antre, aster, earns, etnas, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerts, rants, rates, rents, saner, snare, stane, stare, stern, tares, tarns, tears, terns, trans. | |
-2 letters: anes, ante, ants, ares, arse, arts, ates, earn, ears, east, eats, eras, erns, erst, etas, etna, near, neat, nest, nets, rant, rase, rate, rats, rent, rest, rets, sane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: anestri, anthers, antlers, antsier, argents, arpents, atoners, banters, canters, carnets, earnest, eastern, entraps, errants, garnets, martens, nastier, natters, natures, nearest, nectars, parents, pastern, rankest, ranters, ratines, rattens, recants, rentals, retains, retinas, retsina, saltern, sarment, saunter, scanter, senator, servant, smarten, stainer, stander, stearin, sternal, strange, tankers, tanners, tanrecs, taverns, thenars, trances, treason, trepans, versant, wanters. | |
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