What's the difference between horoscope and planet?

Horoscope


Definition:

  • (n.) The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment.
  • (n.) The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune.
  • (n.) The planisphere invented by Jean Paduanus.
  • (n.) A table showing the length of the days and nights at all places.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Marriage delays were also affected by horoscope problems, delays in elder brother's and sister's marriages, poverty of parents, gossip about premarital relations, physical deformities of the girl, and the combination of inauspicious dates.
  • (2) That sounds less scientific than a fucking horoscope, you mad bastards.” Fair point.
  • (3) There will be more games and applications, and dropping extraneous products such as horoscopes will give more space to the site's traditional diet of movies, music and people.
  • (4) Well, before the September press conference, traders were passing around Yellen’s horoscope .
  • (5) Kevin Smith, co-founder of independent news and picture agency Splash News, says that while many newspapers and magazines rely on celebrity content to get sales, but fill their pages with everything from crosswords to horoscopes, TMZ has just cut down to the bone - celebrity is all it supplies.
  • (6) The film is mentioned in sports reporting ('It's Groundhog Day at Dhaka, where Andrew Flintoff hits his third unbeaten half-century of the series...') and horoscopes ('It feels like you're living through your own personal Groundhog Day,' unlucky Leos are told).
  • (7) Catton, a Libra, admitted she had not checked her horoscope but there was a significant astrological aspect to her winning, as the last New Zealander to win was 28 years ago, an important astrological number – "it is the time that Saturn takes to orbit around the Earth."
  • (8) Of course, all those fears about cloned armies were daft, although typical of our chattering classes who also think GM foods are dangerous because they contain DNA, who believe horoscopes tell the truth, and who value media studies above an education in science.
  • (9) Ofcom ruled that both instances were in breach of its broadcasting code, which states that services such as astrology, horoscopes and tarot readings should be advertised as for entertainment purposes only.
  • (10) Suitcases (and worse) pressing into my coccyx, Metro horoscopes, vomit, delays and the smell of someone else's sweaty armpits – I happily avoid them.
  • (11) The discordant mood shift, or what producers called "light and shade", became routine, as items on keep-fit and horoscopes ran headlong into ones about alopecia and cancer, stitched together with a general tone of bright-eyed, routine empathy ("Your doctor said it was benign, didn't he?")

Planet


Definition:

  • (n.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.
  • (n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (2) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
  • (3) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (4) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
  • (5) For the second, this means identifying greener consumption opportunities that result in a competitive advantage while improving the planet’s natural capital.
  • (6) Beyond capitalism and socialism: could a new economic approach save the planet?
  • (7) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
  • (8) The melting of sea ice, ice caps and glaciers across the planet is one of the clearest signs of global warming and the UK-led team of scientists will use the data from CryoSat-2 to track how this is affecting ocean currents, sea levels and the overall global climate.
  • (9) "The forces of capitalism are squeezing out anything that doesn't focus on extracting as much surplus value as it can from people and the planet.
  • (10) Venus has a special place in the sun’s family of planets.
  • (11) On this planet, extinction is the norm – of the 4 billion species ever thought to have evolved, 99% have become extinct.
  • (12) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
  • (13) Both groups are served by about 17,000 restaurants, most of them proud of their contribution to what the city believes is the highest-quality and most diverse cuisine on the planet.
  • (14) It's the first in our planet's history where one species - ours - has Earth's future in its hands, and could jeopardise not only itself, but life's immense potential.
  • (15) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
  • (16) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
  • (17) One would assume that green groups would want to make absolutely sure that the money they have raised in the name of saving the planet is not being invested in the companies whose business model requires cooking said planet, and which have been sabotaging all attempts at serious climate action for more than two decades.
  • (18) The chancellor was full of jokes at Labour’s expense yesterday: gags about Wallace and Gromit, Emily Thornberry, the arid Red Planet.
  • (19) There we conclude that growth is indeed an “enemy of the planet” – and of its people.
  • (20) Friends of the Earth's executive director, Andy Atkins, said: "We can't continue to ignore the stark warnings of the catastrophic consequences of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of people across the planet.