Satellite vs. Moon

Satellitenoun

A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.

Satellitenoun

A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.

Satellitenoun

A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.

Satellitenoun

An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.

Satellitenoun

Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology.

Satellitenoun

(grammar) A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".

Satellitenoun

An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.

Satellitenoun

A secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under Solar.

Satelliteadjective

Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries.

Satellitenoun

man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon

Satellitenoun

a person who follows or serves another

Satellitenoun

any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star

Satelliteverb

broadcast or disseminate via satellite

Satelliteadjective

surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power;

Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object that has been intentionally placed into orbit. These objects are called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as Earth's Moon.

Moonnoun

(with "the") Earth's only permanent natural satellite.

Moonnoun

Any natural satellite of a planet.

Moonnoun

(literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.

Moonnoun

A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.

Moonnoun

The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.

Moonnoun

(cartomancy) The thirty-second Lenormand card.

Moonverb

To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.

Moonverb

(usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.

Moonverb

To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.

Moonverb

(transitive) To expose to the rays of the Moon.

Moonverb

(cryptocurrency) to rise in price rapidly (describing a coin or token).

Moonnoun

The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.

Moonnoun

A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

Moonnoun

The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.

Moonnoun

A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

Moonnoun

The deliberately exposed naked buttocks.

Moonverb

To expose to the rays of the moon.

Moonverb

To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); - a vulgar sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank.

Moonverb

To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.

Moonnoun

the natural satellite of the Earth;

Moonnoun

any object resembling a moon;

Moonnoun

the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)

Moonnoun

the light of the moon;

Moonnoun

United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920)

Moonnoun

any natural satellite of a planet;

Moonverb

have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake;

Moonverb

be idle in a listless or dreamy way

Moonverb

expose one's buttocks to;

Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. At about one-quarter the diameter of Earth (comparable to the width of Australia), it is the largest natural satellite in the Solar System relative to the size of its planet, the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System overall, and is larger than any known dwarf planet.