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shooting star

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" Shooting Star " is the debut solo single of hip hop artist David Rush , from his debut release Feel the Rush Vol. 1 . It features Kevin Rudolf , LMFAO , and rapper Pitbull . The single version of the song is the "Party Rock" remix of the original song, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meteor \Me"te*or\, n. [F. m['e]t['e]ore, Gr. ?, pl. ? things in the air, fr. ? high in air, raised off the ground; ? beyond + ?, ?, a suspension or hovering in the air, fr. ? to lift, raise up.] Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, ...

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n. a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode [syn: meteor ]

Usage examples of shooting star.

At any rate, this drama of viewer and critic reaction to The Good Mother was played out during the time we were shooting Star Trek V: The Final Frontierwhich, as I said, is a whole other story in itself.

Aloft too long to be a shooting star, it might have been a snow-maned comet, come sunward to orbit, or a supernova's argon shriek.

He looked out the tower window, saw what he might have taken for a shooting star, had not the instruments told him the terrible truth.

You use a potioned paint and chant a charm while painting the sigil: an eye or a hand, or a shooting star, anything.

A long rod plunged deep into the ocean floor while spraying out a web of secondary detectors symmetrically around the core like a shooting star.

And above this world that had been a capital, this capital that had been a world, a shooting star flared: an immense globe of yorik coral entered the atmosphere at a steep angle, shedding a planetwide meteorite shower of bits and pieces and chunks of itself and blossomed with fire as they streaked to the surface.

He had always known the man would rise through the ranks of the Fleet faster than a shooting star, eclipsing his peers along the way.

An instant after the words were uttered, he saw the shooting star.