Crossword-Solution: CENTAURI
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CENTAURI | anagram | UNCERTAI |
We have 5 clues for the answer “CENTAURI”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Alpha ___, our nearest star. | 1 answer |
| Alpha ___, star inhabited in science fiction. | 1 answer |
| Alpha or Proxima follower | 1 answer |
| Proxima ___, nearest star | 1 answer |
| centaur | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CENTAURI (5)
And so ferforth here lustes soghten, 520 That thei the whiche named were Centauri, ate feste there Of on assent, of an acord This yonge wif malgre hire lord In such a rage awei forth ladden, As thei whiche non insihte hadden Bot only to her drunke fare, Which many a man hath mad misfare In love als wel as other weie.
For hours I lay watching Alpha Centauri—the double star of the Great Bear’s pointers—dipping under the Polar star like the hour hand of a clock.
The sun's light flashes to the earth in eight minutes, and to Neptune in about three and a half hours, but it requires three and a half years to signal Alpha Centauri.
For example, in observing the star RR Centauri five stars were in general used for comparison by Dr Roberts, and in course of three months he secured thereby 300 complete observations.
Obviously if the stars had been assumed to be ellipsoids they would have been found to overlap, as was the case for RR Centauri.
Quotes with CENTAURI (3)
And like a good neighbor, Alpha Centauri is there.” Touched by an Alien
I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequate word. I see the stars as a part of the universe, and having spent my life behind walls, suddenly having none fills me with both awe and terror. Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars. A million suns. Centur…
Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find you're looking at a globular cluster — a million stars that, to us, presents as a single entity. On a less dramatic note there are triples, like Alpha Centauri, which up close turns out to be a double star and a red dwarf in close proximity. There's an indigenous tribe in Africa that tells of life coming from the second star in Al…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1956–2017).