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Definitions: Nebula |
NebulaNoun1. A medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer. 2. Cloudiness of the urine. 3. An immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space. 4. (pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nebula" was first used: some time in the mid-15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Nebula \Neb"u*la\, noun; plural Nebul[ae]. [Latin expression, mist, cloud; akin to Greek expression cloud, mist, German nebel mist, Old High German. nebul, Dutch nevel, Sanskrit nabhas cloud, mist. Compare to Nebule.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Computing | Nebula An early business-oriented language from ICL for the Ferranti Orion computer. ["NEBULA - A Programming Language for Data Processing", T.G. Braunholtz et al, Computer J 4(3):197-201 (1961)]. (1994-11-29). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Physics | A diffuse mass of interstellar dust and gas. (references) |
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Some types of nebula have special names, such as dark nebulae, emission nebulae, planetary nebulae, reflection nebulae, and solar nebulae.
See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nebula."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Nebula; cloudliness. (opacity); nebulosity. (dimness). |
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Crosswords: Nebula |
| English words defined with "nebula": Annularity ♦ Crab Nebula ♦ diffuse nebula ♦ extragalactic nebula ♦ gaseous nebula ♦ Nebulae, nebular hypothesis, Nebulosity, Nebulous star, Nubecula ♦ Planetary nebula ♦ Resolution of a nebula ♦ spiral nebula ♦ To resolve a nebula. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nebula": emission nebula ♦ planetesimals ♦ reflection nebula ♦ William Gibson. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nebula": Nebulize. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nebula" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (fuzzy, misty), Latin (cloud, fog, mist, nebula, obscurity, thin film, veneer), Serbo-Croatian (nebula), Turkish (nebula). |
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Screenplays | There's coffee in that nebula. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Brats of the Lost Nebula (1998) Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995) | |
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 | The Hubble telescope has spied a giant celestial "eye," known as planetary nebula NGC 6751. ...Credit: NASA. |  | In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the Hubble telescope's crisp ...Credit: NASA. |
 | Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the ...Credit: NASA. |  | A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion, as imaged by ...Credit: NASA. |
 | An image of a star-forming region in the 30 Doradus nebula, surrounding the dense star cluster ...Credit: NASA. |  | NGC 3132 is a striking example of a planetary nebula. This expanding cloud of gas surrounding ...Credit: NASA. |
 | Resembling curling flames from a campfire, this magnificent nebula in a neighboring galaxy is ...Credit: NASA. |  | Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2,000 light-years ...Credit: NASA. |
 | This composite image shows the location of a one-light-year square region in the Orion Nebula ...Credit: NASA. |  | A unique peanut-shaped cocoon of dust, called a reflection nebula, surrounds a cluster of ...Credit: NASA. |
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| "Nebula" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.83% of the time. "Nebula" is used about 47 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) | 63.83% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 36.17% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nebula": andromeda nebula ♦ crab nebula ♦ diffuse nebula ♦ extragalactic nebula ♦ gaseous nebula ♦ planetary nebula ♦ resolution of a nebula ♦ spiral nebula ♦ To resolve a nebula. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "nebula": dust-nebula. | |
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| 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 |
nebula | 1,761 |
crab nebula | 57 |
nebula rom | 55 |
emulator nebula | 51 |
eagle nebula | 47 |
horsehead nebula | 29 |
orion nebula | 25 |
nebula picture | 25 |
nebula award | 21 |
nebula orions | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "nebula"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njollë (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, imputation, Mark, mote, patch, plash, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint), nebulozë, mjegullnajë (nebulosity). (various references) | |
Arabic | غمامة (cloud), سديم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | небула (albugo), мъглявина (dullness, mist, nebulosity). (various references) | |
Chinese | 星雲 . (various references) | |
Czech | mlhovina. (various references) | |
Danish | spraymaengde (nebula quantity, spray quantity), spraydosis (aerosol dose, nebula dose, spray dose), planet-stjernetaage (planetary nebula), klyngebyer (urban cluster, urban nebula), galaksetåge (galactic nebula), baelte af byer (urban cluster, urban nebula), aerosoltaethed (aerosol density, nebula density, spray density), aerosoldosis (aerosol dose, nebula dose, spray dose). (various references) | |
Dutch | stedengroep (urban cluster, urban nebula), stedelijke gordel (urban cluster, urban nebula), planetaire nevelwolk (planetary nebula). (various references) | |
Finnish | tähtisumu. (various references) | |
French | nébuleuse. (various references) | |
German | nebelfleck (clouding, leucoma, nebule). (various references) | |
Greek | νεφέλωμα (atomization, fogging), φωτονεφέλη. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ködfolt (fog bank, nebulae), ködfátyol (nebulae). (various references) | |
Italian | nebulosa. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 白濁 , 星雲 (galaxy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せいう" (blue sky, fortune, galaxy, high rank, prosperity, tendency, trend), はく く. (various references) | |
Manx | neeal (ashen, ashen colour, ashy, aspect, aspect of face, cloud, complexion, faint, nap, swoon). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ebulanay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nefélio, nebulosa, ponta (beak, crampon, cusp, jot, nib, peak, peak value, point, prickle, sparable, spike, spike tooth, stick, stub, summit, tab, tack, tine, tip, wire nail). (various references) | |
Romanian | nebuloasã. (various references) | |
Russian | туманность (fogginess, haziness, mistiness, nebulosity, turbidity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nebuloza, nebula, maglina (mist). (various references) | |
Spanish | nebulosa (dirt, feather). (various references) | |
Swedish | nebulosa. (various references) | |
Thai | เนบิวลา (ทาง"าราศาสตร์). (various references) | |
Turkish | nebula, bulutsu uzak yıldız topluluğu. (various references) | |
Ukranian | туманність (fogginess, haziness, nebulosity, opacity, turbidity), туман (brume, damp, mist, vapor, vapour), більмо (albugo, wall eye), помутніння рогівки. (various references) | |
Welsh | nifwl (fog, mist). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nebula. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 38, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | KaleseiV de nefoV fwnh kai tromw udatoV labrw upakousetai sou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Numquid elevabis in nebula vocem tuam et impetus aquarum operiet te |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whether thou shalt rere thi vois in to a lytil cloude, and the bure of watris shal couere thee? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Canst thou lift thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters? |
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| Language | Job Chapter 38, Verse 34 |
| Albanian | A mund ta çosh zërin tënd deri në retë me qëllim që të mbulohesh nga shiu i bollshëm? |
| Bulgarian | Издигаш ли гласа си до облаците, За да те покрият изобилни води? |
| Cebuano | Makahimo ka ba sa pagpatugbaw sa imong tingog sa kapanganoran, Aron ang kadagaya sa tubig makalapaw kanimo? |
| Chinese | 能 向 雲 彩 揚 起 聲 來 、 使 傾 盆 的 雨 遮 " 麼 。 |
| Croatian | Zar doviknuti možeš oblacima pa da pljuskovi tebe poslušaju? |
| Danish | Kan du løfte Røsten til Sky, så Vandskyl adlyder dig? |
| Dutch | Kunt gij uw stem tot de wolken opheffen, opdat een overvloed van water u bedekke? |
| Finnish | Taidatko korottaa äänesi pilviin ja saada vesitulvan peittämään itsesi? |
| French | Élèves-tu la voix jusqu`aux nuées, Pour appeler toi des torrents d`eaux? |
| German | Kannst du deine Stimme zu der Wolke erheben, daß dich die Menge des Wassers bedecke? |
| Haitian Creole | Eske ou ka bay nwaj yo lòd pou yo voye gwo lapli sou ou? |
| Hungarian | Felemelheted-é szavadat a felhõig, hogy a vizeknek bõsége beborítson téged? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dapatkah engkau meneriakkan perintah kepada awan, dan menyuruhnya membanjirimu dengan hujan? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dapatkah engkau menyaringkan suaramu sampai kepada awan-awan, sehingga suatu kelimpahan air menudungi engkau? |
| Italian | Puoi tu alzare la voce fino alle nubi e farti coprire da un rovescio di acqua? |
| Maori | E ara ranei i a koe tou reo ki nga kapua, kia nui ai nga wai hei taupoki i a koe? |
| Modern Greek | "υνασαι να υψωσης την φωνην σου εις τα νεφη, δια να σε σκεπαση αφθονια υδατων; |
| Norwegian | Kan din røst nå op til skyen, så en flom av vann dekker dig? |
| Portuguese | Ou podes levantar a tua voz até as nuvens, para que a abundância das águas te cubra? |
| Rumanian | Kyi knalyi tu glasul pknq la nori, ca sq chemi sq te acopere rkuri de ape? |
| Russian | нПЦЕЫШ МЙ ЧПЪЧЩУЙФШ ЗПМПУ ФЧПК Л П'МБЛБН, ЮФП'Щ ЧП"Б Ч П'ЙМЙЙ ПЛТЩМБ ФЕ'С? |
| Spanish | ¿Alzarás a las nubes tu voz para que te cubra abundancia de aguas? |
| Swedish | Kan du upphöja din röst till molnen och förmå vattenflöden att övertäcka dig? |
| Thai | เจ้าตะเบ็งเสียงไปถึงเมฆไ"้ไหมล่ะ เพื่อน้ำมากมายจะลงมาคลุมเจ้า |
| Ukrainian | Чи підіймеш свій голос до хмар, і багато води тебе вкри"? |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nebula": nebulae, nebular, nebulas. (additional references) | |
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"Nebula" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aemula, ebula, Ebulo, Mebumal, Nabaglo, Nabeul, Nabila, nabol, Narula, Ndebele, Nebel, Nebiu, neble, neboula, nebul, nebulan, Neculai, Negusa, nepula, Nequam, Neubau, Ngbaka, Niqula, Nobilia, nubla, Nucula. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nebula" (pronounced ne"byulu) |
| 5 | -b y u l u | fibula. |
| 4 | -y u l u | curricula, diverticula, formula, scapula. |
| 3 | -u l u | gondola, hyperbola, parabola, peninsula. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unable. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: ulnae. | |
-2 letters: able, bale, bane, bean, beau, blae, blue, elan, lane, lean, lube, luna, lune, nabe, ulan, ulna, unbe. | |
-3 letters: alb, ale, ane, bal, ban, bel, ben, bun, eau, lab, lea, leu, nab, nae, neb, nub. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, al, an, ba, be, el, en, la, na, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: abluent, albumen, baneful, nebulae, nebular, nebulas, tunable. | |
+2 letters: abluents, albumens, baculine, bluesman, bubaline, burnable, huntable, prunable, ruinable, subpanel, tuneable, tuneably, turnable, unblamed, undoable, unstable, unusable, unviable, urbanely. | |
+3 letters: ambulance, banefully, belauding, bluejeans, burnables, carbuncle, countable, endurable, endurably, inaudible, incunable, incurable, insurable, jubilance, lumberman, mountable, numerable, penumbral, soundable, subalpine, subaltern, subpanels, tenurable, turntable, unactable, unamiable, unbalance, uneatable, unflyable, unifiable, unlabeled, unlikable, unlivable, unlovable, unmixable, unmovable, unridable, unsalable, unsayable, unstabler, untamable, untenable. | |
+4 letters: ambulances, antebellum, binucleate, bladdernut, blanquette, carbuncled, carbuncles, censurable, consumable, crunchable, enumerable, enunciable, honourable, impugnable, inarguable, includable, inculpable, incunables, incurables, ineducable, infibulate, intuitable, invaluable, jubilances, lambrequin, landlubber, lebensraum, mensurable, nondurable, numberable, obnubilate, outbalance, punishable, quenchable, refundable, republican, returnable, roundtable, subalterns, subcentral, subleasing, subnuclear, summonable, turntables, unabatedly, unamenable, unarguable, unbalanced, unbalances, unbearable, unbearably, unbeatable, unbeatably, unbendable, unbleached, unburnable, unchewable, undeniable, undeniably, uneducable, unenviable, unfeasible, unfindable, unknowable, unnameable, unopenable, unpassable, unplayable, unprovable, unreadable, unreliable, unscalable, unscramble, unsellable, unshakable, unsinkable, unslakable, unsociable, unsolvable, unstablest, unsuitable, untestable, untillable, unwearable, unwinnable, unworkable, usableness, vulnerable, vulnerably. | |
+5 letters: accountable, balefulness, bashfulness, belabouring, binucleated, bladdernuts, blanquettes, candelabrum, confabulate, construable, consumables, curableness, demountable, denumerable, denumerably, durableness, entablature, equableness, equilibrant, exuberantly, hibernacula, illuminable, indubitable, ineluctable, ineluctably, inequitable, inequitably, inexcusable, inexcusably, infibulated, infibulates, innumerable, innumerably, inscrutable, insuperable, insuperably, knuckleball, lambrequins, landlubbers, lebensraums, mandibulate, manipulable, nailbrushes, nonburnable, nondurables, nonreusable, obnubilated, obnubilates, outbalanced, outbalances, outbleating, republicans, returnables, roundtables, subinterval, subjacently, sublanguage, subregional, subterminal, sustainable, tunableness, umbrellaing, unabashedly, unadaptable, unadoptable, unalienable, unalterable, unalterably, unassembled, unavailable, unavoidable, unballasted, unbeautiful, unbreakable, unbudgeable, unbudgeably, unbuildable, uncatchable, uncheckable, unclimbable, unclubbable, uncountable, uncrossable, uncrushable, undanceable, undauntable, undebatable, undebatably, undecidable, undefinable, undesirable, undesirably, undoubtable, undrinkable, unelaborate, unelectable, unendurable, unendurably, unescapable, unexcitable, unfavorable, unflappable, ungraspable, unguessable, unignorable, uninsurable, unlearnable, unliberated, unmatchable, unmemorable, unmemorably, unpalatable, unplausible, unprintable, unreachable, unremovable, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscrambles, unshockable, unspeakable, unspeakably, unstoppable, unteachable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unutterable, unutterably, unwatchable, unworkables. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 62 75 6C 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . -... ..- .-.. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01100010 01110101 01101100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e b u l a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0062 0075 006C 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487168877867 |
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