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In everyday English a meteor is a shooting star: a bright line you see for a second in the night sky. What you are seeing is a bit of rock or metal from space heating and glowing as it tears through the air. People often use meteor for the object itself, and tidy school sentences do that too — though actually scientists split the names. Out in space, before it hits our air, they call the bit a meteoroid. The light show is the meteor. If a piece survives and lands, that piece is a . Older English used meteor for almost any happening in the sky, even weather; that wider sense is why is the study of weather, not of shooting stars. Today, if someone says meteor, they almost always mean the streak, or loosely the space rock. It is a common news-and-school word.
From the word’s history
From Middle French météore, from Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek μετέωρον, from μετέωρος 'raised from the ground, lofty'.
經法文、拉丁文來自希臘文，原意「高高懸在空中的」。
組成From Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek μετέωρον, from μετέωρος 'raised from the ground, hanging, lofty': μετά (among, between) + ἀείρω (to lift). The old sense was any happening in the air; the meaning later narrowed to a space rock burning up.
同家族的字
- meteoritethe piece that actually lands on Earth
- meteorologyfrom the older sense of meteor as any happening in the air, including weather
- meteoroidthe bit still in space, before it glows
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
meteornoun/ˈmiːtɪ.ə/
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climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesAn 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).
- 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.
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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.
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artshobbiesjugglingA prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
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governmenthobbieslifestyleA striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
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Any short-lived source of wonderment.
meteorverb/ˈmiːtɪ.ə/
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To move at great speed.
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