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A star that is used as a reference point in navigation of astronomy
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loadstar
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n. (alternative spelling of lodestar English)
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n. guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation of astronomy [syn: lodestar ] something that serves as a model or guide [syn: lodestar ]
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Loadstar was a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer, published starting in 1984. It derived its name from the command commonly used to execute commercial software from a Commodore 1541 disk: LOAD "*",8,1, with inspiration from the word "lodestar". ...
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Loadstar \Load"star`\, Lodestar \Lode"star`\, n. [Load, lode + star. See Lode .] A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar, Polaris; also, the constellation containing the pole star, the cynosure (Ursa Minor). --Chaucer. `` Your eyes are lodestars.'' ...
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Whose service is my special dignity, And she my loadstar while I go and come.