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Definition: Polar Star |
Polar StarNoun1. The brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the little dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Polar StarSynonym: polestar (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Polar Star (1919) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The romantic spectacle, Under the polar star written by Clay M. Greene. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture 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 |
polar star | 14 |
polar star uscgc | 2 |
lodge polar star | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "polar star"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | полярна звезда (loadstar, lodestar, north star, pole star). (various references) | ||||
German | Polarstern (polestar). (various references) | ||||
Italian | stella polare (loadstar, lodestar). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | olarpay arstay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Polar Star" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Polarstar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pastoral. | |
-2 letters: alastor, parasol, parlors, parrals, parrots, patrols, portals, raptors, rostral, tapalos. | |
-3 letters: altars, aortal, aortas, astral, parlor, parols, parral, parrot, pastor, patrol, polars, portal, postal, raptor, ratals, rostra, sapota, sartor, satrap, sporal, talars, tapalo, tarsal, tolars. | |
-4 letters: altar, altos, aorta, apart, aport, arras, artal, ataps, atlas, lotas, opals, orals, paras, parol, parrs, parts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: portrayals, transpolar. | |
+3 letters: plasterboard, proletarians, proletariats, supraorbital. | |
+4 letters: extrapolators, intrapersonal, perambulators, plasterboards, procathedrals, suprarational, transpersonal, transportable. | |
+5 letters: conspiratorial, particleboards, posterolateral, proletarianise, subproletariat. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 6C 61 72 53 74 61 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110010 00100000 01010011 01110100 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o l a r   S t a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 006C 0061 0072 0053 0074 0061 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081786784253866784 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulgare, bulgaro |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, tedesco |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, italienisch, italiano |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, englisch, inglese |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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