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# meteor

«meteor» in Mova's school dictionary: **A streak of light in the night sky made when a small…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a meteor, meteors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A streak of light in the night sky made when a small piece of rock or dust from space burns up in the air; a shooting star. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#m1)

2) The piece of space rock itself as it falls through the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about space: a meteoroid is the rock in space, a meteor is the bright streak as it burns, and a meteorite is a piece that lands on the ground. A «meteor shower» is many meteors at once. Phrases: meteor shower, shooting star, a meteor shot across the sky.

### examples

- We saw a meteor flash across the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#x1)
- A meteor is also called a shooting star. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#x2)
- Most meteors burn up before they hit the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#x3)
- We stayed up late to watch the meteor shower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#x4)
- A meteor that reaches the ground is called a meteorite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#x5)
- Make a wish when you see a meteor! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#x6)
- Scientists study meteors to learn about space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#x7)
- The meteor left a glowing trail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#x8)
- A shooting star lit up the sky, and the boy's thoughts passed in a second from the vapours of the earth up to the shining meteor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/#x9)

### note

Countable: meteors. Myth: a shooting star is not a star at all — it is a tiny rock burning up. Related: meteorite, meteoroid. Trap: «meteorology» is about weather, not meteors.

### In the corpora

- [Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of dust left by comets, such as the Perseids every August.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/16/)
- [Meteors enter the air at between about 11 and 72 kilometres per second, many times faster than a bullet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/7/)
- [Most meteors glow and burn out between about 70 and 120 kilometres up, far above aeroplanes and clouds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/8/)
- [Meteor Crater in Arizona, about 1.2 kilometres wide, was blasted out roughly 50,000 years ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/16/)
- [A shooting star is not a star but a meteor: a speck of space rock burning up in the air.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «meteor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meteor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.