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pole-star
pole-star (ˈpəʊlstɑː(r)) [f. pole n.2 + star n.] 1. The star α Ursæ Minoris, now within 1° of the northern pole of the heavens; also called Polar star, and Polaris.1555 Eden Decades 32 The starre which we caule the pole starre or northe starre..is not the very poynte of the pole Artyke. 1634 Sir T. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Pole star
A pole star is a visible star that is approximately aligned with the axis of rotation of an astronomical body; that is, a star whose apparent position is close to one of the celestial poles. On Earth, a pole star would lie directly overhead when viewed from the North or the South Pole. Currently, Ea... wikipedia.org
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pole-star
pole-starn the North Star, which is almost exactly overhead in the northern half of the world 北极星. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Pole star - Wikipedia
Pole star. A pole star is a visible star that is approximately aligned with the axis of rotation of an astronomical body; that is, a star whose apparent position is close to one of the celestial poles. On Earth, a pole star would lie directly overhead when viewed from the North or the South Pole .
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NLV Pole Star
NLV Pole Star is a lighthouse tender operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), the body responsible for the operation of lighthouses and marine navigation aids around the coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man. Pole Star was completed in 2000 by Ferguson Shipbuilders on the River Clyde. She i... wikipedia.org
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polartike
† poˈlartike Obs., i.e. pole arctic, the north pole or pole-star: see pole n.2 1, Arctic.c 1391, 1513 [see pole n.2 1]. 1552 Lyndesay Monarche 6321, I se Polartike in the North appeir. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. viii. 90 Was..seine, betueine Pol artik and the Pleiades..a maruellous gret... Oxford English Dictionary
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lodestar
lodestar(also loadstar), n(a) star used as a guide in navigation, esp the pole-star 用以指示航向的星; （尤指）北极星.(b) (fig 比喻) principle that guides one's behaviour and actions （行为和行动的）指导原则. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Brihadratha Ikshvaku
The great oceans dry-up, the mountains crumble, the pole-star deviates from its place, the wind-cords are broken, the earth is submerged, and the very wikipedia.org
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orient
orient, v. (ˈɔərɪɛnt, ˌɔərɪˈɛnt) [a. F. orient-er to place facing the east, f. orient east.] 1. trans. To place or arrange (anything) so as to face the east; spec. to build (a church) with the longer axis due east and west, and the chancel or chief altar at the eastern end; also, to bury with the fe... Oxford English Dictionary
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Lot No. 249
Lovecraft writes that: "Doyle now and then struck a powerfully spectral note, as in 'The Captain of the Pole-Star', a tale of arctic ghostliness, and ' wikipedia.org
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tramontane
tramontane, a. and n. (trəˈmɒntən, træmɒnˈteɪn) Forms: 4 tramountayne, 7 -mountain, -montan, (6–8 -ain, 9 -aine), 6– tramontane; also in It. forms, 7–9 tramontana, 6–8 (pl.) tramontani; Lat. pl. 7 tramontanæ. See also transmontane. [ad. It. tramontana north wind, pole-star, tramontani ‘those folkes ... Oxford English Dictionary
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William Lambton
, the preferred method in surveying was to use well known stars located closer to the zenith, such as Aldebaran for India, whose declination from the pole-star wikipedia.org
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counter-clockwise
ˌcounter-ˈclockwise, a. and adv. [counter prep. + clock + -wise.] In a direction counter to that of the movement of the hands of a clock.1888 [see clock-wise s.v. clock n.1 11]. 1890 C. A. Young Elem. Astron. §24. 16 All the stars appear to move in concentric circles around a point near the Pole-sta... Oxford English Dictionary
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Ship Breaker
Nailer joins Captain Candless and the rest of the Dauntless crew on a high-speed chase after the Pole-Star, the ship Nita is presumedly on. wikipedia.org
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north
north/nɔ:θ; nɔrθ/ n[sing](abbr 缩写 N)1 (esp with the 尤与the连用) one of the four main points of the compass, lying to the left of a person facing the sunrise 北; 北方 cold winds from the north 寒冷的北风 He lives to the north of here. 他住在这里以北的地方. Do you know which way is north? 你知道哪边是北方吗? Cf 参看 east, south, wes... 牛津英汉双解词典
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