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Main Entry:	planet [plan-it] Show IPA/ˈplænɪt/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	celestial body orbiting a star
Synonyms:	apple, asteroid, earth, globe, heavenly body, luminous body, marble, orb*, planetoid, sphere, terrene, wandering star, world

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	globe
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	Earth, sphere
Synonyms:	apple, ball, balloon, big blue marble, map, orb, planet, rondure, round, spheroid, terrene, world

Main Entry:	sphere
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	globular object
Synonyms:	Earth, apple, ball, big blue marble, circle, globe, globule, orb, pellet, pill, planet, rondure, round

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Example Sentences

Now, rather suddenly, the red planet is showing new signs of life.

As nations around the planet wrestle with life-or-death decisions about whether and how to confront.

But it was able to photograph only half of the planet in any detail.

Now, rather suddenly, the red planet is showing new signs of life.

As nations around the planet wrestle with life-or-death decisions about whether and how to confront.

But it was able to photograph only half of the planet in any detail.

But if an object is orbiting another, much larger object that's not a star, it wouldn't count as a planet either.

Astronomers believe they may have discovered the first planet ever detected in another galaxy.

Certain travel destinations remind you that you live on a planet-an old, weathered, tectonic-plate-shifting planet.

When it's time to replace the usual suspects, make healthier choices––for you and the planet more.

They haven't decided on a name yet, but astronomers announce they've found another planet in our solar system.

Perhaps the planet still has some volcanic heat churning in its interior.

Graduate-advising disasters are the typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions of the academic planet.

Earth orbit is and will remain a valuable place, as the swarms of satellites that circle the planet attest.

Planet hunters have discovered the biggest new world yet and it is going the wrong way around its home sun.

Standing in the middle of the largest gypsum field in the world, you may feel as if you are on another planet.

For the first time, astronomers have seen the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system.

There is no doubt that there's a limit to what the planet can support.

These will help determine how human visitors would fare on the planet.

For the first time a spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet has spied--and photographed--some of its kin.

Thank you so much for bringing us the wonder of our planet.

The planet itself is an interesting object, unlike anything in our solar system.

Almost no climatologists now dispute the idea that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are heating up our planet.

If you think you can make the planet better by clever shopping, think again.

Scientists have for the first time detected carbon and oxygen in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system.

Extrasolar planet hunters are excited about a not-so-hot discovery.

But lets put present day profits ahead of the sustainability of our planet.

European astronomers have found the first solid evidence for a rocky planet outside our own solar system, they revealed today.

Pluto, the little planet that may not even be a planet at all, is suddenly all the rage among astronomers.

Collectively, according to one estimate, the planet spends more than three billion hours a week playing games.

The portion of our planet affected by serious drought has doubled in the last three decades, a new study suggests.

The only way to rescue our plug-hungry planet from catastrophic global warming is to embrace nuclear power, and fast.

We can run the planet well by dividing up natural resources evenly between the people and leaving plenty for future generations.

Let's remember that she is having an extraordinarily lucid day whenever she knows which planet she's.

Astronomy takes care of the here: a planet orbiting a yellow star embedded in one of the spiral arms of the.

As the planet warms up, eco-friendly fuels can't get here fast enough.

Our health and the health of the planet depend on pushing livestock production in more sustainable directions.

It may be hard to imagine a planet blacker than coal, but astronomers say they've found one-and it reflects almost no light.

The find is unique and astronomers say the planet must.

Earth is the only planet known to be inhabited by life, and humans are the only intelligent beings.

That's by day-to-day intention-to live simpler and lighter on the planet.

Stepping back from the daily rush to regard the home planet from above.

But some researchers maintain that the planet cooled rapidly after.

Another study finds the planet has warmed, but that won't convince the skeptics.

It could be here that we'll discover whether another planet is fit for colonization: the lab currently.

Trees are some of the longest-lived organisms on the planet.

With saving the economy top of the agenda, saving the planet will have to wait.

Scientists have discovered an extrasolar planet using a technique known as gravitational microlensing.

The plot involves a group of people stranded on a distant planet going through.

They've started buying up forests and rivers that keep the planet clean and diverse, and then selling.

We should indeed do the things in our power, and within reason, to sustain the planet.

The planet thus forms a useful screen against other sorts of particles that might confuse the telescope.

The second planet to be found circling the nearby star.

Kepler repeatedly found that his model failed to predict the correct position of the planet.

The lunar outpost would be a training ground and launchpad for trips to the red planet.

And it added a virtuous green dimension: sustainable business would help to save the planet.

What the spacecraft gains in velocity, the planet loses.

No one, of course, would consider chopping down the world's forests to keep the planet cool.

Learning to categorize the life on our planet is surprisingly difficult for the human mind.

Browse by planet or search the database for your favorites.

Instead they are being pressed to explain what if anything they are willing to do to save the planet.

It also changed the way people of all nations thought about themselves and the planet they share.

Some scientists have proposed, however, that the planet could have been balmy in the past.

Scientists expect the comet dust to yield clues about how our solar system and planet were formed.

New research suggests that the giant planet may have suffered two.

Your planet is being buffeted by solar wind-particles of protons and electrons that the sun spews into space.

It may seem round when viewed from space, but our planet is actually a bumpy spheroid.

Any planet too close to such a destructive event would have been torched.

Phages are among the simplest organisms on the planet.

And in our shrinking world, our campground is now the planet and global warming threatens it.

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