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bolide

/boh-lahyd, -lid/US // ˈboʊ laɪd, -lɪd //UK // (ˈbəʊlaɪd, -lɪd) //

栓子,波利德,栓塞,波利特

Related Words

falling star流星,坠星,陨落的星星,坠落的星星comet彗星,扫把星,扫帚星,扫帚fireball火球,火球术,大火球,燃烧的球meteorite陨石,陨铁,隕石,陨落meteoroid流星体

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Astronomy.

    • : a large, brilliant meteor, especially one that explodes; fireball.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inshooting star
Synonyms
comet彗星,扫把星,扫帚星,扫帚falling star流星,坠星,陨落的星星,坠落的星星fireball火球,火球术,大火球,燃烧的球meteorite陨石,陨铁,隕石,陨落meteoroid流星体

Examples

  • Astrophysicists say it was a bolide, or a meteor that explodes in the air.

  • It said blandly that a bolide—a slow-moving, large meteoric object—had been observed by radar to be descending to earth.

  • A bolide had fallen into the Catanian sea—he took me to the port and showed me precisely where.

  • They stopped arguing about last night's bolide to take ringside seats.

  • The argument on the path of last night's bolide and why it fell where it did is again in order.

  • It was the sound of the bolide's passage, arriving after the object itself had dived into the sea.

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