Comet

Definition: Comet

Comet

Noun

1. (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "comet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Comet \Com"et\, noun. [Latin expression cometes, cometa, from the Greek expression comet, prop. long-haired, from to wear long hair, from hair, akin to Latin coma: compare to the French expression com[`e]te.]. (Websters 1913)

Aerospace

Astronomy

Dream Interpretation

Geography

Space

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COMET

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Traveler

Runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet.

World

Sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite.

Crosswords: Comet

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen! (Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; writing credit: Romeo Muller)

Shakobini Comet! Leather Queen Follow-Up! (Project A-Ko Versus Battle 2: Blue Side; writing credit: Yuji Kawahara; Katsuhiko Nishijima)

Comet cuddles cute Christmas kittens carefully. (references; author: unknown)

Comet of Laughter Lands on Earth (1952)

Blonde Comet (1941)

Comet Over Broadway (1938)

The Riding Comet (1925)

Love Comet (1916)

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References

• Comet Savings & Finance: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Arthur and the Comet Crisis (reference)

• Comet (reference)

• Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth: Computer Modeling (reference)

• Comet in Moominland (reference)

• Comet of Nostradamus: August 2004- Impact! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Coatings Comet (reference)

• Comet (reference)

• Comet Tales (reference)

• Icq Comet Handbook (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Star Blazers - Comet Empire (Parts 1-6) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Comet Learning Complete Online Guide to Digital Photography (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Comet Booster - Aztec Ceramic (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Astronomers analyzing debris from a comet that broke apart last summer spied pieces as small ... Credit: NASA.

Completing an unprecedented yearlong study of Comet Hale-Bopp with two NASA observatories, ... Credit: NASA.

In the Jupiter campaign, scientists wanted to see how the comet collisions affected the Jovian ... Credit: NASA.

Lackluster comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) unexpectedly threw astronomers a curve. Using the Hubble ... Credit: NASA.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed look yet at the comet hurtling ... Credit: NASA.

Comet C/Hale-Bopp as taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA.

Comet P/Halley as taken March 8, 1986 by W. Liller, Easter Island, part of the International Halley Watch (IHW) Large Scale Phenomena Network. Credit: NASA.

Comet C/Hyakutake as taken with the Hubble Space Telescope when the comet passed at a distance of 9.3 million miles (14.9 million km) from Earth (03/25/96). Credit: NASA.

Photograph taken of Comet P/Kohoutek from Skylab. (12/21/73). Credit: NASA.

Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 as taken with the Wide-Field/Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA.

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Brutus strikes him with a knife, and God with a comet.

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Business

In 1993, the company acquired a controlling stake in the Russian chemical plant Novomoskovskbytkhim in the Tula region which currently produces a number of detergent and hygienic products, including Tide and Myth washing powders, Always women's protection pads, Fairy dishwashing liquid, Comet cleaning and disinfectant powder, etc. So far, the company has not invested in local production of hair, oral care and other cosmetic lines. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "comet": Biela's comet ♦ Comet Assay ♦ comet family ♦ comet finder ♦ comet group ♦ comet hunter ♦ comet nucleus ♦ comet orbit ♦ comet seeker ♦ fresh comet ♦ head of the comet ♦ new comet ♦ periodic comet ♦ Tail of a comet. Additional references.

Beginning with "comet": Comet- seeker, comet-blaze, Comet-finder, comet-hunter, comet-like.

Ending with "comet": Woolworth-to-comet.

Albanian

kometë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نجم ذو ذنب, ‏المذنب نجم. (various references)

Basque

kometa. (various references)

Bulgarian 

комета. (various references)

Chinese 

彗星 . (various references)

Czech

kometa. (various references)

Danish

komethale (comet tail). (various references)

Dutch

staartster, komeet. (various references)

Esperanto

kometo. (various references)

Faeroese

halastjørna. (various references)

Farsi 

ستاره دنباله دار. (various references)

Finnish

pyrstötähti. (various references)

French

comète (coma). (various references)

Frisian

sturtstjer. (various references)

German

komet (meteor), schweifstern. (various references)

Greek 

κομήτησ. (various references)

Hebrew 

שביט, כוכב שביט. (various references)

Hungarian

üstökös (blazing star, meteor). (various references)

Indonesian

bintang berekor. (various references)

Italian

cometa (coma, rainbow runner). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'星 , 彗星 , コミュニケーション科学基礎� "究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborative, collaborator, collage, collagen, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, Cominform, comment, commentator, comment-out, committee, common, common carrier, common language, common sense, Commonwealth Day, communicate, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, communist, Communist Information Bureau, community, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corrida, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box), 帚星 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいせい (aquatic, aquatic life, aqueous, decay, decline, downward tendency, living in the water, Mercury, strength of a river current, this decadent world, water-based), ほうきぼし, コメット . (various references)

Korean 

혜성. (various references)

Manx

rollage arbyllagh. (various references)

Occitan

cometa. (various references)

Papiamen

kometa. (various references)

Pig Latin

ometcay

Portuguese

cometa. (various references)

Romanian

cometã (quill). (various references)

Russian 

комета. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zvezda repatica, repatica, kometa. (various references)

Spanish

cometa (box kite, kite). (various references)

Swedish

komet. (various references)

Turkish

kuyrukluyıldız, kuyruklu yildiz. (various references)

Ukrainian

комета (wanderer). (various references)

Welsh

comed. (various references)

cometes. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "comet": cometary, cometh, comether, comethers, cometic, comets. (additional references)

Words containing "comet": viscometer, viscometers, viscometric, viscometries, viscometry. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Comet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cajet, camat, camet, Cemat, Cmot, cmt, Cmte, cobet, coet, coget, coiet, coiment, coket, comae, comag, comata, comdef, comed, comeete, comeh, comen, coment, comeo, comert, comest, comete, comette, comex, comey, comfect, comish, comit, comitt, commem, commet, Commey, comnet, comnt, comont, comot, compent, compet, comt, comte, Comtec, Comtech, Comtek, comtel, Comten, conat, conert, conet, conit, cooet, coonet, corment, Cormet, coset, cowet, Crombet, domet, Domett, fomet, Kamet, Komech, komet, Lomet, octem, omet, pomet. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: comte.

-1 letter: come, cote, mote, tome.

-2 letters: cot, met, moc, mot, toe, tom.

-3 letters: em, et, me, mo, oe, om, to.

+1 letter: coempt, comate, cometh, comets, comtes.

+2 letters: centimo, coempts, comates, cometic, comment, commute, compete, compote, compted, compute, contemn, costume, demotic, meiotic, metopic, mortice, outcome, telomic, tonemic, totemic, toxemic, vicomte.

+3 letters: ammocete, azotemic, celomata, centimos, chowtime, chromate, chromite, coempted, coinmate, comatose, combated, combater, cometary, comether, comfiest, comities, comments, commuted, commuter, commutes, competed, competes, compleat, complect, complete, compotes, computed, computer, computes, contemns, contempt, copemate, cosmetic, costumed, costumer, costumes, costumey, cremator, customer, democrat, demotics, document, domestic, ectoderm, ectomere, epitomic, hecatomb, hemocyte, homeotic, intercom, locomote, mercapto, metazoic, meteoric, methodic, monocyte, morticed, mortices, moschate, mycetoma, myxocyte, outcomes, pentomic, recommit, semiotic, stockmen, toxaemic, trichome, vicomtes.