(n.) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
(2) Walden said the comparison with Comet was “ridiculous”.
(3) Its investments have included the airline Monarch, which has returned to profit after nearly collapsing a year ago, Morrisons convenience stores , and the now defunct Comet electrical goods chain.
(4) The lawyers have passed on the details of a tribunal judgment, published this month, which states that Chris Farrington, one of three Deloitte administrators, signed a letter to the secretary of state, Vince Cable, in November 2012 stating that there were "no proposed redundancies at present" at Comet .
(5) Estimates of what we will be able to see will improve over the next few days as astronomers track the comet's progress.
(6) Comet, the electricals retailer that has collapsed into administration, is the latest high street casualty, emblematic of thousands of shuttered shops up and down the land.
(7) 1933 Comet Battery store is founded by George Hollingbery in Hull, Yorkshire, employing two people who charge batteries for customers' wireless sets.
(8) We have used video image analysis to define appropriate "features" of the comet as a measure of DNA damage, and have quantified damage and repair by ionizing radiation.
(9) The authors' contribution to the problem is the observation of special thrombocyte aggregates surrounding neutrophils resembling comet tails, as well as the fact that the authors observed the formation of aggregates surrounding also lymphocytes and eosinophil cells.
(10) The pathognomonic sign is the "comet tail" that results from the crowding of vessels and bronchi as they enter the atelectatic region.
(11) Diallo was able to get the plate number off the women’s car but when he gave it to police he said he was told: “It’s a civil matter, there’s nothing we can do.” DC police spokeswoman Margarita Mikhaylova said they had “not received reports of specific threats” from businesses neighboring Comet Ping Pong.
(12) Following the revelations, it has emerged that Tims, who was news editor of the Surrey Comet between 1980 and 1988, was interviewed by an officer working for Operation Fernbridge, the criminal investigation examining claims of sexual abuse and grooming of children by prominent men, including senior MPs, top police officers and people with links to the royal household.
(13) Certain phenomena such as "centrifugal effect" and "comet effect" are examples of new problems generated by the advent of TBM.
(14) 2011 Kesa shareholders vote for the sale of loss-making Comet to private investment firm OpCapita for just £2 .
(15) This followed a string of closures in 2012 including Comet, JJB Sports, Game, Peacocks and Blacks Leisure.
(16) Comet is to close a further 125 stores – with the loss of 2,500 jobs – over the next few weeks, and it may shut down its entire business before the end of the year unless a buyer can be found, the administrator, Deloitte , has warned.
(17) Previous probes have included Lunar Prospector, which studied the moon's geology; Stardust, which returned a sample of material scooped from a comet's tail; and Mars Pathfinder, which deployed a tiny motorised robot vehicle on the Red Planet in 1997.
(18) We have studied incision-break formation in unstimulated and stimulated populations of human T-lymphocytes using the comet (single-cell microgel electrophoresis) assay.
(19) I just wanted to do some good and went about it the wrong way,” Edgar Welch, 28, told a reporter from the New York Times , adding: “I regret how I handled the situation.” Welch was arrested on Sunday at the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, which became the subject of lurid conspiracy theories after it was mentioned in the personal emails of John Podesta , Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief, published by WikiLeaks.
(20) DNA containing breaks extends in the direction of the anode forming an image resembling the tail of a comet.
Covet
Definition:
(v. t.) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.
(v. t.) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
(v. i.) To have or indulge inordinate desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(2) Concern for the future and belief in scientific progress provided the motive for the foundation of the Prize which, in our time, is one of the most coveted of honours.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: The many faces of Jürgen Klopp The deal represents a significant coup for FSG, which has convinced the coveted Klopp to abandon his sabbatical from the game after four months despite Liverpool having no Champions League football to offer.
(4) He might not be the hard-drinking rockstar of old but classically-trained pianist James Blake proved that cerebral compositions on a keyboard are no barrier to success after he was crowned winner of the coveted Barclaycard Mercury prize .
(5) It was a hat-trick of sex scandals involving Beckham, Eriksson and David Blunkett that landed the paper the coveted newspaper of the year award at last year's British Press Awards.
(6) Over the years the Oscars have been variously coveted and sneered at, have increasingly brought box-office value and personal prestige, become a media obsession, a gauge of industrial morale and a way of taking the national pulse.
(7) Their titles, like Jesse In Mexico and Hank In Pursuit, point to their primary use as emotional catalysts for the show rather than standalone pieces of music, though diehard fans will likely still covet it alongside their Breaking Bad cufflinks and Converse trainers .
(8) China says it has launched the world’s first quantum satellite, a project Beijing hopes will enable it to build a coveted “hack-proof” communications system with potentially significant military and commercial applications.
(9) Sometimes I wonder if, 20 years hence, we as a society will decide that it doesn't make sense to grant women coveted spots in advanced programmes in business, law, science or medicine.
(10) The coveted stars of modern football do not want to work like that.
(11) Its use of the internet to carry voice calls threatened to undermine the world’s biggest telecoms companies, from AT&T to Vodafone, and made it one of the most coveted up-starts in the tech world.
(12) The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul.
(13) The Spanish champions are seeking to renegotiate with the much-coveted pair, whose deals include buy-out clauses set at around £43m.
(14) There are no jobs currently in existence that we covet."
(15) In the latest sign that McDonald’s is trying to consolidate its control of the coveted breakfast market, the fast food chain has applied to trademark a new word that could appeal to late morning risers everywhere: “McBrunch.” The application, which the maker of the Egg McMuffin filed on 23 July, signals at the very least an interest in expanding what has been one of the company’s fastest-growing and most profitable day segments.
(16) It is ubiquitous, yet coveted, pricey yet just about affordable.
(17) On the edge of Scholar’s Piece, the strip of farmland just behind King’s College, lies a granite stone which has become arguably Cambridge’s most coveted tourist attraction.
(18) In the movie, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of misfits who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb.
(19) When Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye receives a coveted Human Rights Defenders award in Geneva , his role as a fearless chronicler of his country's US-led drone war will have come full circle.
(20) Arsenal know that the Catalan club already covet two of their key players, the captain, Cesc Fábregas, and the full-back Gaël Clichy, but Arsène Wenger, the manager, has come to view Arshavin's pronouncements in the Russian media with a degree of amusement.