Meteor

Quick meaning: Meteor is a noun meaning (juggling) A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.

Meaning

(juggling) A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.

More Meanings

1. (martial arts) A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
2. (figurative) Any short-lived source of wonderment.
3. (intransitive) To move at great speed.
4. A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star.
5. (now meteorology) An atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon. These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars).

Example Sentences

Europe, where the Sun dares ſcarce appeare, For freezing Meteors and congealed cold: […]

The twilight, the meteors call'd fire-balls, or flying dragons, and the northern lights, inhabit the higher regions of the atmosphere.

A meteor in the hazy air / Play’d before his path; / Before him now it roll’d / A globe of livid fire […] Anon to Thalaba it mov’d, / And wrapt him in its pale innocuous fire.

Word Forms

• meteors
• meteoring
• meteored

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include meteoroid, meteorite, day, fragment, event, caucus.

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