Shooting Star

Definition: Shooting Star

Shooting Star

Noun

1. A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode.

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Aerospace

Geography

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Shooting Star

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: Shooting Star

Look Edward a shooting star! Should we make a wish? (The League of Gentlemen; writing credit: Jeremy Dyson; Mark Gatiss)

Another shooting star goes by (I Can't Hold Back; performing artist: Survivor)

I got my fingers crossed on a shooting star (6th Avenue Heartache; performing artist: The Wallflowers)

Shooting Star (1924)

Sternberg - Shooting Star (1988)

Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Shooting Star (reference)

• Shooting Star (reference)

• Shooting Star (Sports Stories, 46) (reference)

• Thomas and the Shooting Star (Thomas & Friends) (reference)

• Under a Shooting Star (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Shooting Star Experiment. Credit: NASA.

Closeup of Shooting Star flower. Credit: John Craig.

Farshot of Dark-Throat Shooting Star, Dodecatheon Pulchellum, wildflower. Credit: John Craig.

Medium shot of Dark-Throat Shooting Star, Dodecatheon Pulchellum, wildflower. Credit: John Craig.

Closeup shot of Dark-Throat Shooting Star, Dodecatheon Pulchellum wildflower. Credit: John Craig.

Henderson's Shooting Star (Dodecatheon hendersonii) along Ward's Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Close up of Henderson's Shooting Star (Dodecatheon hendersonii) at Upper Table Rock (UTR). Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

yll që keputet, meteor (meteor). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نيزك (falling star, meteor), ‏الشهاب عشب أمريكي, ‏شهاب (falling star, meteor). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вид иглика (polyanthus), метеор (falling star, meteor), падаща звезда (falling star, meteor). (various references)

Czech

létavice. (various references)

Dutch

vallende ster (meteor), meteoor (atmospheric phenomenon, meteoric stone). (various references)

Finnish

meteori (meteor). (various references)

French

étoile filante. (various references)

German

Sternschnuppe (falling star, meteoroid). (various references)

Greek 

φωτεινό μετέωρο (meteor), διάττων αστήρ, διάττοντασ αστέρασ, διάττοντας αστέρας (meteor). (various references)

Hebrew 

כוכב � ופל (falling star, meteor). (various references)

Hungarian

hullócsillag (falling star, meteor). (various references)

Italian

stella cadente (meteor). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

流れ星 (meteor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ながれぼし (meteor). (various references)

Manx

rollage roie. (various references)

Pig Latin

ootingshay arstay

Portuguese

meteoro (bolide), estrela cadente (meteor). (various references)

Romanian

stea cãzãtoare (falling star). (various references)

Russian 

метеор (meteor, scintillant star, scintillants), падающая звезда. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

padalica. (various references)

Spanish

estrella fugaz (shooter). (various references)

Swedish

stjärnskott, stjärnfall. (various references)

Turkish

göktaşı (aerolite, meteor, meteorite), akanyıldız (meteor). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sao sa (meteor), sao băng (falling star). (various references)

pairikanãmca. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: assorting, organists, ostinatos, rogations, rotations, shootings, straights, strongish, strontias, throating.

-4 letters: agonists, arnottos, arsonist, assignor, astonish, gastrins, hornists, hornitos, orangish, orations, organist, orthosis, ostinato, rattoons, ringtoss, risottos, roasting, rogation, roosting, rotating, rotation, shooting, shorings, shortias, shorting, shotting, signoras, soarings, soothing, starting, stashing, stations, straight, strontia, toasting, tonights, toothing, torsions, tortonis, transits, trashing.

+1 letter: trapshootings.

+3 letters: anthropologists.

+5 letters: neuropathologists.