(n.) One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena.
Example Sentences:
(1) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(2) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
(3) Askap will also help astronomers investigate one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: dark energy.
(4) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(5) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
(6) These changes will not arrive with an astronomical bang, of course, but will appear with stealth.
(7) Speaking at the Young America’s Foundation conference in Washington, he said: “When I was younger, a trillion was an astronomic number.
(8) Estimates of what we will be able to see will improve over the next few days as astronomers track the comet's progress.
(9) We've tried very hard to get women and black astronomers and engineers into the programme.
(10) Those found around the nearest sun-like stars are the most interesting to astronomers.
(11) Between the 10-year projection of a half million FTE nursing shortage, astronomical medical care costs and a lingering recession, nursing administrators have no option but to make difficult choices in resource allocation.
(12) Astronomer Jose Madiedo, who leads the Midas project at the University of Huelva, saw footage of the strike soon after the telescopes' software had processed the impact on 11 September 2013.
(13) Astronomers have spotted the most distant galaxy ever seen after a faint ray of light struck a telescope on a volcano in the middle of the Pacific.
(14) The site also allows astronomers to study objects such as the Magellanic clouds, which can only be seen in the skies of the southern hemisphere.
(15) People sitting out in the desert aren’t talking amongst themselves about how, ‘Joe Bloggs received a mandatory sentences for a ‘three strike’ burglary, I better not do the same thing’.” Collins said the legislation would compound recidivism rates for Aboriginal people in WA jails, rates which he said were already “astronomically high”.
(16) China's giant telescope represents its big ambitions for science Read more Scientists would start debugging and trials of the telescope, said Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built the telescope.
(17) But at the same time it just proved how significant Meerkat has become.” Meerkat’s rise has been astronomical.
(18) Astronomers rank the planets by scoring them on three different scales.
(19) "The odds of you as an individual being hit by this are around one in 20 trillion," Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society told the BBC.
(20) The astronomical profits these companies and their cohorts continue to earn from digging up and burning fossil fuels cannot continue to haemorrhage into private coffers.
Gastronomer
Definition:
(n.) One fond of good living; an epicure.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the dark days of Soho's gastronomic life, Andrew Edmunds held a candle for great quality, simple, seasonal cooking, and the flame has never really gone out.
(2) Oliveira recently opened a sister restaurant next door, Esquina Mocotó , with a fancier menu and slightly higher prices, which has been received just as rapturously as the original by SP's gastronomics brigade.
(3) For this is one of the defining characteristics of the true British food snob: a conviction that our high street food culture is vulgar and awful , that it's a slurry pit of overwhelming choice underpinned by little in the way of values or conviction or tradition, which only encourages gastronomic deviants like the Christopher Pooles of this world.
(4) Click here to view video The premise of season one was that Coogan had been commissioned by the Observer to set out on a gastronomic tour of the north of England , from the Inn at Whitewell in the Trough of Bowland to the Yorke Arms in the Yorkshire Dales.
(5) In addition to the live music, and DJ sets by Zero 7 and Greg Wilson, the festival has an important gastronomic component: L’Enclume’s Simon Rogan, Murano’s Angela Hartnett and Polpo’s Russell Norman will all be helping to prepare Wilderness’s “long table banquets”, with extra nosh by the chefs and bakers of St John.
(6) In fact, Uggie was off for his first Gallic gastronomic experience and like a true star was giving the press and cameras the runaround.
(7) Until 2002 he was very much a woozy hangover from the 90s, a man who found fame on television not because of any great gastronomic talent – he was no Delia – but because of the way he mainlined enthusiasm down the lens.
(8) And yet for a few weeks last year Paltrow joined Batali, along with the New York Times food writer Mark Bittman and the Spanish actress Claudia Bassols, on a freewheeling, gastronomic tour of Spain for a major TV series.
(9) San Sebastián officially starts its year of culture on 23 January, and more than 400 projects are in progress, several drawing on the city’s extraordinary gastronomic reputation.
(10) Along with three other gutsy gastronomes, I am here to taste the results.
(11) The prolific Winterbottom is also set to release his sequel to Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's gastronomic tour The Trip, which premiered at Sundance last month.
(12) In some cases they do not limit themselves to gastronomical pleasures: several places have a reputation for doubling as elite brothels.
(13) There is also a smart but pricey gastronomic restaurant on the top floor, Les Ombres, terrace of which is opposite the Eiffel Tower.
(14) An astronomical victory, but not necessarily a gastronomical one.
(15) Putting Paltrow and Batali together on the road for a gastronomic trip through Spain, a country that does not so much celebrate ham as fetishise it, should therefore have been a recipe for disaster.
(16) Nutritional habits and nutritional status of 142 pupils of a Gastronomic School Complex were examined from the standpoint of the year of school, school marks and place of residence.
(17) The Portuguese gastronomic speciality is bacalhau .
(18) What they came back with showed what happens when you put most of the politicians, media, and big-boy jobs in all-powerful, recession-proof London: sharp economic inequality produces gastronomic inequality, too.
(19) Neighbouring Richmond Hill is a gastronome’s delight.
(20) We used to be the joke of Europe in terms of our food quality but now we stand as one of the places where people come for a gastronomic experience.