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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A prefix meaning star or stars and, by extension, sometimes used as the equivalent of celestial , as in astro nautics. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
ASTRO | English | Autonomous space transporter and robotic orbiter | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ASTRO |
| Non-English Usage: "ASTRO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (heavenly body), French (place, room, space), Italian (aster, celestial body, star), Portuguese (heavenly body, luminary, star, world), Spanish (luminary, star). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Astro! If I wanted a bath I'd take a shower! (The Jetsons; writing credit: Aarne Tarkas) | |
Movie/TV Titles | El Astro del tango (1940) O Astro (1977) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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![]() | Astro camp at Pop Lake, Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Portable observing tripod made of poplar Astro party of C. V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | High-centered at Station Rice Vern Burns with shovel Astro party of Albert E. Theberge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Richard Cohen demonstrating use of shovel Astro party of Albert E. Theberge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Vern Burns determining rough azimuth prior to Wild T-4 setup Astro party of Albert E. Theberge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Time for a haircut - Carey V. Hodgson reading paper and getting a trim Astro party of Carey V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Camp on Necker Island in Mid-Pacific Island was station for World Longitude Campaign Astro party of E. J. Brown. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Camp on eastern Lisianski Island Island was station for World Longitude Campaign Nesting place for albatross and other marine bird species Astro party of E. J. Brown. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Camp at Station Sturgeon Point at onset of winter Astro party of Ralph Pfau. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Charles Whitten as a young field engineer flipping a flapjack Astro party of Charles Whitten He is commemorated by the Whitten Medal of the American Geophysical Union. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Malaysia | ASTRO, a direct-to-viewer satellite service, is also available in the country. (references) |
Malaysia | MEGA TV offers five channels including CNN and ESPN; ASTRO, a satellite service, provides 20 TV channels as well as 8 radio channels. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ASTRO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ASTRO" is used about 9 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 (singular) | 66.67% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ASTRO": astro altitude ♦ astro compass ♦ astro dome. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ASTRO": astro-archaeology, Astro-b, Astro-c, astro-navigational, astro-physicists, astro-physics, Astro-tarot, astro-tracker, astro-turf. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
abby astro | 898 | astro shield | 41 |
astro | 869 | chevrolet astro used | 41 |
astro boy | 211 | houston astro | 37 |
astro van | 196 | abby astro horoscope | 35 |
astro turf | 163 | astro bingo | 34 |
chevrolet astro | 131 | man or astro man | 31 |
astro jump | 116 | astro med | 30 |
chevy astro | 109 | astro glide | 28 |
astro world | 104 | six flag astro world | 27 |
astro jax | 96 | astro pneumatic | 26 |
chevy astro van | 88 | assembler astro | 24 |
astro jacks | 79 | astro horoscope | 24 |
astro boat | 68 | custom astro van | 24 |
astro malaysia | 60 | astro physics | 23 |
astro spectrum | 52 | new astro | 21 |
astro communication services | 50 | gateway astro | 21 |
astro projection | 49 | buy chevrolet astro | 21 |
astro canadian chevrolet chiltons cover gmc manual model repair safari u.s | 48 | astro diet | 21 |
chevrolet astro van | 48 | astro ria | 21 |
abbey astro | 44 | astro jax trick | 21 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ASTRO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | astronomisk-gravimetrisk nivellement (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | astronomisch-gravimetrische waterpassing (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | astro-gravimetrinen vaaitus (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nivellement astro-gravimétrique (astro-gravimetric levelling), coupole vitrée (astrodome, brit astro hatch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | astronomisch-gravimetrisches Nivellement (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αστροθόλοσ (astro dome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 天"物理学 (astro-physics), アステカ族 (ASPAC, asparagus, asterisk, astringent, astringent lotion, Astrodome, astrology, astronaut, astro-rama, Aztec). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アストロラマ (astro-rama), て"たいぶつりがく (astro-physics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astroay nivelamento astro-gravimétrico (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references) имеющая космические корабли (astro power), держава (astro power, power, superpower). (various references) astro-tražilac (astro-tracker), astrokompas (astro compass), visina (altitude, astro altitude, elevation, height, highness, inches, level, tallness). (various references) nivelación astrogravimétrica (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references) astronomisk-geodetisk nivåmätning (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ASTRO": astrobiologies, astrobiologist, astrobiologists, astrobiology, astrocyte, astrocytes, astrocytic, astrocytoma, astrocytomas, astrocytomata, astrodome, astrodomes, astrolabe, astrolabes, astrologer, astrologers, astrological, astrologically, astrologies, astrology, astrometric, astrometries, astrometry, astronaut, astronautic, astronautical, astronautically, astronautics, astronauts, astronomer, astronomers, astronomic, astronomical, astronomically, astronomies, astronomy, astrophotograph, astrophotographer, astrophotographers, astrophotographies, astrophotographs, astrophotography, astrophysical, astrophysically, astrophysicist, astrophysicists, astrophysics. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ASTRO": anastrophe, anastrophes, archaeoastronomies, archaeoastronomy, catastrophe, catastrophes, catastrophic, catastrophically, catastrophism, catastrophisms, catastrophist, catastrophists, diastrophic, diastrophically, diastrophism, diastrophisms, disastrous, disastrously, ecocatastrophe, ecocatastrophes, enterogastrone, enterogastrones, gastrocnemii, gastrocnemius, gastroduodenal, gastroenteritides, gastroenteritis, gastroenterological, gastroenterologies, gastroenterologist, gastroenterologists, gastroenterology, gastroesophageal, gastrointestinal, gastrolith, gastroliths, gastronome, gastronomes, gastronomic, gastronomical, gastronomically, gastronomies, gastronomist, gastronomists, gastronomy, gastropod, gastropods, gastroscope, gastroscopes, gastroscopic, gastroscopies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ratos, roast, rotas, taros, toras. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: arts, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, rato, rats, rota, rots, soar, sora, sort, star, stoa, taos, taro, tars, tora, tors, tsar. | |
-2 letters: ars, art, oar, oat, ora, ors, ort, ras, rat, rot, sat, sot, tao, tar, tas, tor. | |
-3 letters: ar, as, at, or, os, so, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: aborts, actors, aorist, aortas, argots, aristo, assort, boarts, castor, costar, gators, groats, korats, oaters, orates, ottars, pastor, ratios, roasts, rostra, sartor, satori, scrota, stator, storax, stroma, tabors, tarocs, taroks, tarots, tolars, torahs, troaks, tronas. | |
+2 letters: abators, aerosat, airpost, alastor, amorist, aorists, aristos, aroints, aroynts, assorts, atoners, attorns, authors, boaster, boaters, borates, borstal, cantors, captors, carrots, cartons, castors, cavorts, coaster, coaters, contras, costard, costars, cottars, cratons, dotards, earshot, esparto, factors, formats, garotes, harlots, maestro, marmots, matrons, mortals, mortars, natrons, nonarts, oralist, orators, orgeats, ostiary, ostmark, ostraca, outsoar, outwars, oxcarts, parrots, partons, pastors, patrols, patrons, portals, postwar, proteas, quartos, rabatos, ragouts, ragtops, raptors, rations, ratoons, rattons, rebatos, rialtos, roasted, roaster, robusta, roseate, rostral, rotates, rubatos, santour, sartors, satoris, sautoir, scrotal, seaport, senator, shortia, sorbate, stardom, stators, storage, stromal, surcoat, tabours, tailors, tarpons, thorias, throats, toaster, torsade, torulas, towards, transom, travois, treason, trocars, troikas, tsardom, turacos, viators. | |
| 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. | |
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