Crossword clues for lodestar
lodestar
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loadstar \Load"star`\, Lodestar \Lode"star`\, n. [Load, lode + star. See Lode.]
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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.''
--Shak.The pilot can no loadstar see.
--Spenser. Something that serves as a guide or provides direction; a cynosure[2].
Something that attracts attention or on which the atention is fixed; a cynosure[3].
Lodestar \Lode"star`\, n. Same as Loadstar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris. 2 A guiding tenet or principle. 3 (context law English) (rfdef topic=law English) n. 1 A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris. 2 A guiding tenet or principle. 3 (context law English) (rfdef topic=law English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Lodestar was an experimental progressive rock band formed in 1996 by Heitham Al-Sayed (Lead Vocalist), John Morgan ( Drums) and " Haggis" ( Sound Engineer) after they left Senser.
The band released two singles, and gigged across the UK in 1997, including a support slot at the London Astoria with Tool.
"Lodestar" is a short story by Poul Anderson. The idea was proposed to the author in a letter from editor John W. Campbell in 1970, but not developed into a story until the publication of Astounding: The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology. The story is one in the Polesotechnic League series featuring the bombastic space adventurer Nicholas van Rijn.
Lodestar may refer to:
- Polaris
- any star used in celestial navigation
- metaphorically, any guiding principle
- Lodestar (band), an English band formed in 1996
- Guiding Star (2007 album title)
- CM Lodestar electric chain hoist, used in manufacturing industries
- GWR 4000 Class 4003 Lode Star, a British steam locomotive
- Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar, a passenger transport aircraft of the World War II era.
- Lodestar method, a basis for calculating attorney's fees
- Lodestar (novel), a 2000 science fiction novel by Michael Flynn
- Lodestar (Anderson), a short story by Poul Anderson
- Lodestar, an alien transformation in the third season of Ben 10: Alien Force
Usage examples of "lodestar".
He had founded Lodestar Investment Management twenty years ago, after ten laborious years at a large Boston moneymanagement firm.
For most of those twenty years Lodestar had languished as a small-time financial advisory firm, barely generating enough fee income to stay in business.
Now, besides the President, Lodestar counted as its clients seven Senators, thirty-two Representatives, a Supreme Court justice, and hundreds of institutions.
The story will be written so that the reader will infer that the President influenced Lodestar management into making the purchases because he had inside information.
Victor Farinholt leaned over his desk at Lodestar Investment Management and waved a piece of paper angrily at Peter Lane.
Grand Cayman account-in return for their request that Lodestar put the President into Penn-Mar.
Third, I need to know what the hell Lodestar Investment Management is.
Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation stormed the Washington offices of Lodestar Investment Management.
Through his press secretary, Peter Arland, the President has officially denied direct contact with Farinholt or any other employee of Lodestar since depositing money in a blind trust with the firm four years ago.
He was focusing on the revelation of his involvement with Lodestar and his long relationship with Victor Farinholt, on the insider-trading charge, which was rumored to be imminent, and on the Lane Memo, as it was being called.
But there were only small stories about the Lodestar raid and no mention of a confidential memorandum linking the President to insider trading.
The Financial Chronicle had broken the story on the Lodestar raid because the Sevens controlled the paper.
Second, I want to say that I am in no way connected to the events, to the raid on Lodestar Investment Management in the early hours of this morning.
A memo that outlined how the President had directed Lodestar to invest in Penn-Mar for him because he knew it was going to be taken over.
The records indicate that Lodestar invested twenty thousand dollars into Penn-Mar on behalf of the President just days before the takeover was announced.