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"STARS" is a plural of: star. |
Date "STARS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | The greatest astronomers known, having studded the heavens for ages. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Stars The eleven stars (Gen. 37:9); the seven (Amos 5:8); wandering (Jude 1:13); seen in the east at the birth of Christ, probably some luminous meteors miraculously formed for this specific purpose (Matt. 2:2-10); stars worshipped (Deut. 4:19; 2 Kings 17:16; 21:3; Jer. 19:13); spoken of symbolically (Num. 24:17; Rev. 1:16, 20; 12:1). (See ASTROLOGERS.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of looking upon clear, shining stars, foretells good health and prosperity. If they are dull or red, there is trouble and misfortune ahead. To see a shooting or falling star, denotes sadness and grief. To see stars appearing and vanishing mysteriously, there will be some strange changes and happenings in your near future. If you dream that a star falls on you, there will be a bereavement in your family. To see them rolling around on the earth, is a sign of formidable danger and trying times. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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A celebrity is a famous person. The etymological origin of the word is "one who is celebrated." An alternative definition of a celebrity is a person who is famous for being famous (regardless of what first brought them to fame). What it takes to be a celebrity depends on the cultural context and the historical time. The advent of mass media increased the public interest in celebrities, and has even developed into a self-substantiating circuit (the 'cult of celebrity' i.e. being famous for being famous and not for having achieved anything else). Some ordinary people volunteer to become known on television (e.g. in reality television shows) for a taste of celebrity, though celebrity from a reality show is usually called "fleeting celebrity" or "15 minutes of fame".
Examples of celebrities
See also:
- actors and movie stars
- directors
- artists
- musicians
- authors
- politicians
- royalty
- sportspeople
- actor
- celebrity stiff
- Celebrity (1998 movie)
- Celebrity (Nsync Album)
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A movie star is a name for a celebrity that is well known for his or her role in the movies.Although the name mostly refers to actors and actresses, certain directors and producers are also often described as "movie stars."
See: List of female movie actors; List of male movie actors
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Movie star."
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- For alternate meanings see Star (disambiguation)
Hundreds of stars are visible in this image of the Sagittarius Star Cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.A star is a large glowing sphere that is found in outer space. Stars appear as points in the nighttime sky that twinkle because of the effect of the Earth's atmosphere. The Sun is an exception: it is the only star sufficiently close to Earth to appear as a disc.
Common language does not always reflect this astronomical usage; the term "star" ordinarily does not include the Sun, and sometimes includes the visible planets and even meteors ("shooting stars" or "falling stars").
The nearest star to the earth, apart from the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, which is 40 trillion kilometers away. Light from Proxima Centauri takes 4.2 years to reach Earth. (See light year.) If you took the French TGV, one of the fastest trains, on a trip to Proxima Centauri using its highest recorded speed (515.3 kilometers per hour), it would take you about 8.86 million years.
Astronomers estimate that there are at least 70 sextillion stars in the known universe (7 x 1022). That is 70 000 000 000 000 000 000 000.
Many stars are between 1 billion and 10 billion years old. Some stars may even be close to 13.7 billion years old, which is the estimated age of the universe. (See Big Bang theory and Stellar evolution.) They range in size from the tiny neutron stars (which are actually dead stars) no bigger than a city, to supergiants like the North Star (Polaris) and Betelgeuse, in the Orion constellation, which have a diameter about 1,000 times larger than the sun—about 1.6 billion kilometers.
Scientifically, stars are defined as self-gravitating spheres of plasma in hydrostatic equilibrium, which generate their own energy through the process of nuclear fusion. The energy produced by stars radiates into space as electromagnetic radiation (mostly visible light), and as a stream of neutrinos. The apparent brightness of a star is measured by its apparent magnitude.
Stellar astronomy is the study of stars and the phenomena exhibited by the various forms/developmental stages of stars.
Many stars are gravitationally bound to other stars, forming binary stars. Larger groups called star clusters also exist. Stars are not spread uniformly across the universe, but are typically grouped into galaxies. A typical galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars.
Star formation and evolution
As learned by star formation astronomers, stars are born in molecular clouds, large regions of slightly higher density of matter (though still less dense than the inside of an earthly vacuum chamber), and form by gravitational instability inside those clouds triggered by shockwaves from supernovae. (High mass stars powerfully illuminate the clouds from which they formed. One example of such reflection nebulae is the Orion Nebula.)
Stars spend about 90% of their lifetime fusing hydrogen to produce helium in high pressure reactions near the core. Such stars are said to be on the main sequence.
Small stars (called red dwarfs) burn their fuel very slowly and last tens to hundreds of billions of years (far longer than the time elapsed in the universe so far). At the end of their lives, they simply become dimmer and dimmer, fading into black dwarfs.
As most stars exhaust their supply of hydrogen, their outer layers expand and cool to form a red giant. (In about 5 billion years, when the sun is a red giant, it will subsume Mercury and Venus.) Eventually the core is compressed enough to start helium fusion, and the star heats up and contracts. (Larger stars will also fuse heavier elements, all the way to iron.)
An average-size star will then go nova, shedding its outer layers as a planetary nebula. The core that remains will be a tiny ball of degenerate matter not massive enough for further fusion to take place, supported only by degeneracy pressure, called a white dwarf. It will fade into a black dwarf over absurdly long stretches of time.
In larger stars, fusion continues until collapse ends up causing the star to explode in a supernova. This is the only cosmic process that happens on human timescales; historically, supernovae have been observed as "new stars" where none existed before. Most of the matter in a star is blown away in the explosion (forming nebulae such as the Crab Nebula) but what remains will collapse into a neutron star (a pulsar or X-ray burster) or, in the case of the largest stars, a black hole.
The blown-off outer layers includes heavy elements, which are often converted into new stars and/or planets. The outflow from supernovae and the stellar wind of large stars play an important part in shaping the interstellar medium.
Stellar evolution explains how stars are created and die in greater detail.
Star classification
There are different classifications of stars ranging from type O which are very large and bright, to M which is often just large enough to start ignition of the hydrogen. Some of the more common classifications are O,B,A,F,G,K,M, and can perhaps be more easily remembered using the mnemonic "Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me", invented by Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941). There are many other mnemonics for star classification. Each letter has 9 subclassifications. Our sun is a G2, which is very near the middle in terms of quantities observed. Most stars fall into the main sequence which is a description of stars based on their absolute magnitude and spectral type.
The sun is taken as the prototypical star (not because it is special in any way, but because is the closest and most studied star we have), and most characteristics of other stars are usually given in solar units.
For example, the mass of the sun is
The masses of all other stars are given in terms of Msun.
- Msun = 1.9891 × 1030 kg
Naming of stars
Most stars are identified only by catalog numbers; only a few have names as such. The names are either traditional names (mostly from Arabic), Flamsteed designations or Bayer designations. The only body which has been recognized by the scientific community as having competence to name stars or other celestial bodies is the International Astronomical Union. A number of private companies (e.g. the "International Star Registry") purport to sell names to stars; however, these names are not recognized by the scientific community, nor used by them. (Many in the astronomy community view these organizations as frauds preying on people ignorant of how stars are in fact named.) See star designations for more information on how stars are named.
Nuclear fusion reaction pathways
A variety of different nuclear fusion reactions take place inside the cores of stars, depending upon their mass and composition (see Stellar nucleosynthesis).
Stars begin as a cloud of mostly hydrogen with about 25% helium and heavier elements in smaller quantities. In the Sun, with a 107 K core, hydrogen fuses to form helium in the proton-proton chain:
These reactions result in the overall reaction:
- 2(1H + 1H → 2D + e- + νe) (4.0 MeV + 1.0 MeV)
- 2(1H + 2D → 3He + &gamma) (5.5 MeV)
- 3He + 3He → 4He + 1H + 1H (12.9 MeV)
In more massive stars, helium is produced in a cycle of reactions catalyzed by carbon, the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle.
- 41H → 4He + 2e- + 2γ + 2νe (26.7 MeV)
In stars with cores at 108 K and masses between 0.5 and 10 solar masses, helium can be transformed into carbon in the triple-alpha process:
For an overall reaction of:
- 4He + 4He + 92 keV → 8*Be
- 4He + 8*Be + 67 keV → 12*C
- 12*C → 12C + γ + 7.4 MeV
- 34He → 12C + γ + 7.2 MeV
Related topics
See also: Blue straggler
- Brightest stars as seen from Earth
- Nearest stars to us
- Stellar evolution
- List of mnemonics for star classification
- Stars with extrasolar planets
- Stars with articles in Wikipedia
- Timeline of stellar astronomy
- Nursery rhyme Twinkle twinkle little star
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Star."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
STARS | English | Software tool for advanced reliability and safety analysis | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: STARSSynonym: Galaxies. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gratitude | Feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an obligation; savoir gr_; not look a gift horse in the mouth; never forget, thank one's stars, thank one's lucky stars, bless one's stars; fall on one's knees. |
Indication | Insignia; banner, banneret, bannerol; bandrol; flag, colors, streamer, standard, eagle, labarum, oriflamb, oriflamme; figurehead; ensign; pennon, pennant, pendant; burgee, blue Peter, jack, ancient, gonfalon, union jack; banderole, " old glory ", quarantine flag; vexillum; yellow-flag, yellow jack; tricolor, stars and stripes; bunting. |
Multitude | Thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no end of, no end to; cum multis aliis; thick as hops, thick as hail; plenty as blackberries; numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head; and what not, and heaven knows what; endless; (infinite). |
Necessity | Star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice. |
Prediction | Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice, |
Rejoicing | Verb: rejoice, thank one's stars, bless one's stars; congratulate oneself, hug oneself; rub one's hands, clap one's hands; smack the lips, fling up one's cap; dance, skip; sing, carol, chirrup, chirp; hurrah; cry for joy, jump for joy, leap with joy; exult; (boast); triumph; hold jubilee; (celebrate); make merry; (sport). |
Thought | Phrase: the mind being on the stretch; the mind turning upon, the head turning upon, the mind running upon; " divinely, bent to meditation "; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin; " fresh-pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought "; " go speed the stars of Thought "; " in maiden meditation fancy-free "; " so sweet is zealous contemplation "; " the power of thought is the magic of the Mind "; " those that think must govern those that toil "; " thought is parent of the deed ";Phrase: the mind being on the stretch; the mind turning upon, the head turning upon, the mind running upon; " divinely, bent to meditation "; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin; " fresh-pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought "; " go speed the stars of Thought "; " in maiden meditation fancy-free "; " so sweet is zealous contemplation "; " the power of thought is the magic of the Mind "; " those that think must govern those that toil "; " thought is parent of the deed "; " thoughts in attitudes imperious "; " thoughts that breathe and words that burn "; vivere est cogitare; Volk der Dichter und Denker. |
Wonder | Interjection: lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, gad so! welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it!; (inexpectation); you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons! how now! where am I? |
World | Heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea, ame no kawa. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come outand then it was nice (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) Stars wheeled overhead and everyday was as long as a life-age of the earth (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Oh, look, stars. (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;) Is it fate? Is it meant to be? Is it written in the stars that we are destined to fraternize (The Mask; writing credit: Michael Fallon; Mark Verheiden) Four presidents, movie stars (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Lyrics | You're screaming out the window at the stars, (At The Stars; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) 'Cause we are all made of stars (We Are All Made Of Stars; performing artist: Moby) We are the firm all stars (Firm All Stars; performing artist: The Firm) I tip my hat to the keeper of the stars (The Keeper Of The Stars; performing artist: TRACY BYRD) Where I see a lot of stars (The Sign; performing artist: Ace Of Base) | |
Clever | A face without freckles is like a sky without stars. (references; author: unknown) Two men looked out of prison bars: One saw mud, and the other saw stars. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rising Stars (1999) Monolog eines Stars (1974) Lost in the Stars (1974) Sex and the Stars (1973) Terror from the Stars (1969) | |
Song Titles | Stars Are Ours, The (performing artist: The Duras Sisters) A Thousand Stars (performing artist: Kathy Young and The Innocents) We Are All Made Of Stars (performing artist: Moby) Dead Rock n Roll Stars (performing artist: Wally Pleasant) Three Stars Will Shine Tonight (Theme From Dr. Kildare) (performing artist: Richard Chamberlain) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A Swarm of Ancient Stars. Credit: NASA. |  | Life Cycle of Stars. Credit: NASA. |
 | Nova eruptions by dying stars were thought to be simple, predictable acts of violence. ... Credit: NASA. |  | If civilizations exist around other stars they are likely to be just emerging across our ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Near-infrared image of young binary stars with a faint companion (a planet?). (Produced with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), Hubble Space Telescope.). Credit: NASA. |  | The birthplace of massive stars, 30 Doradus Nebula (WFPC2 and NICMOS). Credit: NASA. |
 | Project Cement #2. Stairway to the stars. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | A dense bed of brittle stars can get their food from the water or bottom. Ophiura sarsii. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Sea stars. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | E-8C Joint STARS. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Reaching For the Stars" by Samy Yang Commentary: "She looked so cute, I couldn't resist. ." | "STARS IN YOUR EYES" by Jason Felmingham Commentary: "Shot in the back of a television stage with an EOS 5. I saw the light and could not resist. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Christopher Marlowe | O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. |
Edward Young | Those who build beneath the stars build too low. |
Henry David Thoreau | The stars are the apexes of what triangles! |
Horace | I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head. |
John Webster | We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. |
Marquis De Sade | The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect. |
Robert Schuller | Turn your scars into stars. |
Thomas Carlyle | The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. |
Virgil | Good speed to your youthful valor, boy! So shall you scale the stars! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Legends and chimeras are given them to swallow, about the soul, immortality, paradise, and the stars. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The stars began to crumble and a cloud of fine stardust fell through space |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Lo, at their birth good stars were opposite |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The stars went out, few by few, toward the west |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There are the stars, and they who can may read them |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Currently, the state has 352 hotels, under the category of 1 to 3 stars scale. (references) | |
The state has 352 hotels (1 to 3 stars), with 16,480 rooms available in hotels, motels, and condominiums. (references) | ||
The first-class hotels, which are considered equivalent to five stars on the international level, are located in Tijuana and Mexicali. (references) | ||
Economic History | Iraq | Between the green stars written in Arabic: Allahu Akbar (God is great). (references) |
Senegal | Sponsoring a sports team, local bands, and music stars is also an effective tactic. (references) | |
Democratic Republic of Congo | Flag: Light blue with gold star in center and six smaller gold stars vertically aligned on the left edge. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Accommodations can be rated between 1-3 stars and are not comparable to most European/U.S. standards. (references) |
Venezuela | Stars are awarded by the Venezuelan Government, and do not correspond to any international standards. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions. Having received an ultimatum from Austria, the Turkish Ministry met to consider it. "O servant of the Prophet," said the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk to the Mamoosh of the Invincible Army, "how many unconquerable soldiers have we in arms?" "Upholder of the Faith," that dignitary replied after examining his memoranda, "they are in numbers as the leaves of the forest!" "And how many impenetrable battleships strike terror to the hearts of all Christian swine?" he asked the Imaum of the Ever Victorious Navy. "Uncle of the Full Moon," was the reply, "deign to know that they are as the waves of the ocean, the sands of the desert and the stars of Heaven!" For eight hours the broad brow of the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk was corrugated with evidences of deep thought: he was calculating the chances of war. Then, "Sons of angels," he said, "the die is cast! I shall suggest to the Ulema of the Imperial Ear that he advise inaction. In the name of Allah, the council is adjourned." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | General McCaffrey has earned three purple hearts and two silver stars fighting for America. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "STARS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.18% of the time. "STARS" is used about 3,898 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 99.18% | 3,866 | 2,527 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.67% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.15% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,898 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "STARS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stars | Last name | 100 | 77,747 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "STARS": binary stars ♦ bless one's stars ♦ by the stars at birth ♦ Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars ♦ feather stars ♦ fixed stars ♦ golden stars ♦ Informed stars ♦ Longitude stars ♦ Run of stars ♦ see stars ♦ see stars before one's eyes ♦ seven stars ♦ stars and Bars ♦ stars and stripes ♦ To see stars ♦ unformed stars ♦ variable stars. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "STARS": stars-and-stripes, stars-unseen. | |
Ending with "STARS": All-stars, co-stars, film-stars, pop-stars. | |
| 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 |
diva stars.com | 418 |
seeing stars.com | 19 |
deva stars.com | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STARS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مجد نجمة معينة (bless one's stars). (various references) | |
Chinese | 星 (Astral, STAR, stellar). (various references) | |
Danish | søblommer (fallen stars), fingerhjul (contra-rotating stars, finger wheel), dobbeltstjerner (binary stars). (various references) | |
Dutch | zonnewiel (contra-rotating stars, finger wheel, sun gear), harkwiel (contra-rotating stars, finger wheel), binaire sterren (binary stars). (various references) | |
Finnish | tähtilippu (the stars and stripes, the star-spangled banner), kaksoistähti (binary stars, double star). (various references) | |
French | sismologie stellaire (seismology of stars), sismologie des étoiles (seismology of stars), sacrer une étoile (bless one's stars), nostocs (fallen stars), jet d'étoiles (streamer of stars), explosion stellaire (exploding stars), disque stellaire (disk of stars), disque soleil (contra-rotating stars), crachats de lune (fallen stars), bannière étoilée (Stars and Stripes), étoiles binaires (binary stars). (various references) | |
German | Sterne (asterisks), Gestirn (heavenly body, orb, star). (various references) | |
Greek | βλέπω τον ουρανό σφοντύλι (see stars), νοστοκίδες (fallen stars), άναστρος (moonless, without stars), ακτινοειδής δίσκος (contra-rotating stars, finger wheel), αστροποίκιλτοσ τρίχρωμοσ σημαία των ηνωμένων πολιτείων (stars and stripes), αστεροειδής δίσκος (contra-rotating stars, digger wheel, finger feed, finger plate, finger wheel, ratchet seed metering device, star feed, star feed mechanism, star wheel, wizard feed), διπλοί αστέρες (binary stars). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szikrákat hány a szeme (to see stars), áldja a szerencséjét (to bless one's stars). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gemintang (full of stars). (various references) | |
Italian | stelle. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 星辰 (celestial bodies). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せいしん (celestial bodies, fresh, heart, intention, mind, new, sincerity, soul, spirit). (various references) | |
Korean | 별 (STAR). (various references) | |
Manx | goll sheear (go back, moon, stars), sun, west, west of ship, wester, wester of wind). (various references) | |
Norwegian | stjerner. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arsstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estrelas. (various references) | |
Romanian | vedea stele verzi (see stars, see stars before one's eyes). (various references) | |
Russian | звезда (spider, star). (various references) | |
Spanish | ver las estrellas (see stars), nostocaceas (fallen stars), explosión de estrellas (exploding stars), estrellas binarias (binary stars), disco estrellado (contra-rotating stars, finger wheel), disco de estrellas (disk of stars), corriente de estrellas (streamer of stars). (various references) | |
Turkish | yıldızları saymak (see stars), vuruşun etkisiyle yıldızları saymak (see stars), şeşi beş görmek (see stars), amerikan bayrağı (american flag, old glory, star spangled banner, stars and stripes). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cờ nước Mỹ (stars and stripes). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lampadarum, lampadas, lampades, lampadibus, lampadis, lampas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mhte de hliou mhte astrwn epifainontwn epi pleionaV hmeraV ceimwnoV te ouk oligou epikeimenou loipon perihreito pasa elpiV tou swzesqai hmaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Neque sole autem neque sideribus apparentibus per plures dies et tempestate non exigua inminente iam ablata erat spes omnis salutis nostrae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne the sunne nether the sterris weren seie bi many daies, and tempest not a litil neiyede, now al the hope of oure helthe was don awei. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When at the last nether sunne nor starre in many dayes appered and no small tempest laye apon vs all hope that we shuld be saved was then taken awaye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 20 |
| Albanian | Dhe, duke qenë se prej shumë ditësh nuk dukeshin as dielli as yjet, dhe furtuna po tërbohej, humbi tashmë çdo shpresë shpëtimi. |
| Cebuano | Ug sanglit wala may Adlaw ni mga bitoon nga mipakita sulod sa daghang mga adlaw, ug dili gamay ra ang bagyo nga mikusokuso kanamo, nawala na ang tanang paglaum nga maluwas pa kami. |
| Croatian | Kako se pak više dana nije pomaljalo ni sunce ni zvijezde, a oluja bjesnjela nemalena, bila je veæ propala svaka nada da æemo se spasiti. |
| Danish | Men da hverken Sol eller Stjerner lode sig se i flere Dage, og vi havde et Uvejr over os; som ikke var ringe, blev fra nu af alt Håb om Redning os betaget. |
| Dutch | En als noch zon noch gesternten verschenen in vele dagen, en geen klein onweder ons drukte, zo werd ons voort alle hoop van behouden te worden benomen. |
| Finnish | Mutta kun ei aurinkoa eikä tähtiä näkynyt moneen päivään ja kova myrsky painoi, katosi meiltä viimein kaikki pelastumisen toivo. |
| French | Le soleil et les étoiles ne parurent pas pendant plusieurs jours, et la tempête était si forte que nous perdîmes enfin toute espérance de nous sauver. |
| German | Da aber an vielen Tagen weder Sonne noch Gestirn erschien und ein nicht kleines Ungewitter uns drängte, war alle Hoffnung unsres Lebens dahin. |
| Hungarian | Mikor pedig több napon át sem nap, sem csillagok nem látszottak, és nem kis vihar szorongatott, továbbra minden reménységünk elvétetett életben maradásunk felõl. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Berhari-hari lamanya kami tidak melihat matahari dan bintang, dan angin pun terus-menerus mengamuk. Akhirnya lenyaplah harapan kami untuk selamat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tatkala tiada kelihatan matahari dan bintang beberapa hari lamanya, dan angin ribut tersangat kuat menimpa kami, maka akhirnya putuslah segala pengharapan kami akan beroleh selamat. |
| Latvian | Kad vairâkas dienas nebija redzama ne saule, ne zvaigznes un trakoja liela vçtra, mums zuda katra cerîba izglâbties. |
| Maori | A he maha nga ra i kore ai e puta te ra me nga whetu, kihai ano i iti te tupuhi i akina ai matou, na ka mahue katoa to matou whakaaro ki te ora. |
| Norwegian | Da nu hverken sol eller stjerner lot sig se på flere dager, og et svært uvær var over oss, var det fra nu av forbi med alt håp om redning. |
| Rumanian | Soarele wi stelele nu s`au vqzut mai multe zile, wi furtuna era awa de puternicq kn ckt la urmq pierdusem orice nqdejde de scqpare. |
| Russian | оП ЛБЛ НОПЗЙЕ ДОЙ ОЕ ЧЙДОП ВЩМП ОЙ УПМОГБ, ОЙ ЪЧЕЪД Й РТПДПМЦБМБУШ ОЕНБМБС ВХТС, ФП ОБЛПОЕГ ЙУЮЕЪБМБ ЧУСЛБС ОБДЕЦДБ Л ОБЫЕНХ УРБУЕОЙА. |
| Shuar | Tura Untsurí tsawant tsawaisha etsantrachmiayi tura Káshisha yaasha tsaparcharmiayi. Tura nasesha ti kakantar tukumpramkurin "Yamaikia uwempratin atsawai" tiarmiaji. |
| Spanish | Como no aparecían ni el sol ni las estrellas por muchos días y nos sobrevenía una tempestad no pequeña, íbamos perdiendo ya toda esperanza de salvarnos. |
| Swahili | Kwa muda wa siku nyingi hatukuweza kuona jua wala nyota; dhoruba iliendelea kuvuma sana, hata matumaini yote ya kuokoka yakatuishia. |
| Swedish | Och då under flera dagar varken sol eller stjärnor hade synts, och stormen låg ganska hårt på, hade vi icke mer något hopp om räddning. |
| Uma | Ba hangkuja eo, uma-kai mpohiloi lence eo ba betue', pai' uma ria pento'oa-na uda mpongolu' mporumpa' -kai, alaa-na mere' -mi nono-kai, ki'uli' olo' mpobira' -kai tuwu'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STARS": starship, starships, starstruck. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "STARS": costars, daystars, earthstars, instars, loadstars, lodestars, megastars, polestars, protostars, superstars. (additional references) | |
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"STARS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esdras, Ostara, sars, sasr, Satros, smars, snars, stais, starb, starc, stard, staros, starp, starrs, stas, storq, stra, strash, strass, strats, sturrs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STARS" (pronounced stÄ"rz) |
| 5 | s t Ä" r z | superstars. |
| 4 | -t Ä" r z | guitars. |
| 3 | -Ä" r z | Ares, Barres, bars, bazaars, cars, cigars, czars, gars, jars, Lars, Mars, minicars, pars, scars, Vars. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: trass, tsars. | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: arts, rats, star, tars, tass, tsar. | |
-2 letters: ars, art, ass, ras, rat, sat, tar, tas. | |
-3 letters: ar, as, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: assert, assort, asters, karsts, roasts, satyrs, scarts, sistra, sitars, smarts, sprats, stairs, stares, starts, straps, strass, straws, strays, sutras, tarsus, tussar. | |
+2 letters: actress, aorists, aristas, aristos, arrests, artists, artless, asserts, assorts, astrals, aurists, basters, breasts, casters, castors, costars, easters, estrays, fasters, gasters, instars, lasters, masters, matrass, pasters, pastors, racists, rapists, rashest, rasters, recasts, repasts, reseats, sacrist, salters, santirs, santurs, sartors, sataras, satires, satoris, satraps, searest, seaters, skaters, slaters, sparest, stagers, starers, starets, startsy, starves, staters, stators, stayers, strafes, strains, straits, strakes, strands, stratas, straths, stratus, streaks, streams, strumas, swarths, tarsals, tarsias, tasters, teasers, tessera, trashes, trasses, tsarism, tsarist, tussars, wasters. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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