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单词 new star
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new starn.

Brit. /ˌnjuː ˈstɑː/, U.S. /ˈn(j)u ˈstɑr/
Forms: see new adj. and star n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: new adj., star n.1
Etymology: < new adj. + star n.1Compare Middle English newe sterne (see starn n.):c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11090 Þatt newe sterrne..he ȝaff. Þa kalldewisshe kingess. Forr þatt itt shollde ledenn hemm. Till himm þe rihhte weȝȝe.
1. A star that has recently become visible in the sky; a nova or supernova.In quot. eOE: a comet.
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the world > the universe > star > kind of star > by light > [noun] > nova
new stareOE
nova1833
supernova1932
prenova1956
starburst1977
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xvi. 299 Ða æteawde in Agustus monðe neowe steorra, se is cweden cometa; & þreo monað wæs awuniende.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xv. 305 Heofonas oncneowon cristes acennednysse for ðan ða ða he acenned wæs þa wearð gesewen niwe steorra.
c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) iii. 303 (MED) A new sterre..spred his light and his beames shene.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 19 (MED) A newe sterre that was clyerer then alle other in hevene.
1572 T. Smith in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 8 What a mischeefe meanethe hee to write unto mee of new Starres and Astronomers, and telleth me nothing of my comeing home?
1683 J. Flamsteed Gresham Lect. (1975) 330 It is requisite that I give an account of the New Stars that appeared in Cassiopeas Chaire 110 yeares agone.
1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 310 I compared the nucleus of the comet with two new stars that were just by.
1813 W. Bakewell Introd. Geol. (1815) 432 It is well known to astronomers, that new stars have suddenly appeared with a brilliancy exceeding that of Jupiter.
1899 W. S. Monck Introd. Stellar Astron. vi. 113 The results derived from the New Star in Auriga are rather startling if due to changes of velocity only.
1936 A. R. Hinks Astronomy (ed. 2) vii. 173 From time to time a new star will suddenly blaze up, telling of some sort of catastrophe in the heavens.
1994 J. North Fontana Hist. Astron. & Cosmol. xix. 587 The word ‘nova’ was at first reserved for any star showing a sudden increase in brightness, and that the ‘new star’ of 1054, recorded in China, and those of 1572 and 1604, made famous by Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, would now be classified as supernovae.
2. A star newly formed from condensed gas and dust.
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1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics vi. 284 A new star not yet hot enough to initiate thermonuclear reactions obtains its luminosity from gravitational contraction.
1978 J. M. Pasachoff & M. L. Kutner University Astron. x 285 A nova is a newly visible star rather than a really new star. (It is certainly not new in the manner of the new stars detected in the infrared, as discussed in Section 9.2.)
1990 Omni July 64/3 We think pockets of gas are collapsing under their own gravity, shrinking and spinning and finally igniting as new stars.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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