noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a distant planet/galaxy/star
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They saw telescope images of the distant planet Neptune.
destroy the world/planet
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No one wants another war, which might destroy the world.
Planet Earth
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the origin of life on Planet Earth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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We will take the animals to different planets .
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To say the two groups come from different planets is almost true, and probably considered a compliment by both.
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The law-abiding seem to live on a different planet .
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I felt they were coming from a different planet .
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Though he dismisses the tag of dreamer, the scale of his plans are on a different planet .
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At least when it comes to politics, women and men are orbiting different planets and different parties.
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Suddenly they were on different planets .
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Andrew however came from a different planet .
distant
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The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being.
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They got their name more than 100 years ago when astronomers thought their roundish shapes resembled distant planets .
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Perhaps prehistoric visitors from distant planets erected it here - Space Odyssey style - purely for this purpose?
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Why was she on this distant planet , trying to discover how the Althosian civilization was destroyed?
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We pretended to fly to distant planets in futuristic spaceships.
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She knows that the guest has come from another, distant planet , one with an important status in the universe.
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Taking all this into account, we have to ask why the extraterrestrials should be remotely interested in seeding distant planets .
entire
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Circling the earth every 100 minutes, it will observe the entire planet every three days.
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Thus the immediate result of a K / impact anywhere on Earth would be wildfire ignition over the entire planet .
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He was going to die saving an entire planet from the Daleks.
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The entire planet is fluid, like a star.
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For the sake of a handful of people making huge profits the entire planet has been put in jeopardy.
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The ring of fire contains a very large fraction of the earthquake activity of the entire planet .
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Acid rain and marine pollution hurt neighbouring countries; ozone depletion and global warming threaten the entire planet .
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The best way to get that carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is to warm the entire planet .
giant
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In this respect particular attention has been paid to the giant gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn.
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The giant planets will remain a puzzle for a long time.
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The giant planets , with such feeble solar heating, are also very cold.
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The high abundances of hydrogen and helium are features of the giant planets also.
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Typically, the giant planets contain about forty-five parts per million of helium-3 in their atmospheres.
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The giant planets are, in fact, warm inside.
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Discovery would enter a parking orbit around Saturn, be-coming a new moon of the giant planet .
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But that betrays a terribly parochial notion of what giant planets are like.
other
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Finally, Mercury and the Moon may be much less thoroughly outgassed than the other terrestrial planets .
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But what about other planets , where water may be a scarce commodity?
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But I wasn't sure they were the kind of entities that come from other planets .
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Thermal tides occur in the atmospheres of other planets .
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There may be yet more complicated objects than us on other planets , and some of them may already know about us.
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The outcome matches the estimated rate in Figure 8.2, and this provides support for the rates for the other planets .
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These could be on other planets , in artificial space colonies or even beneath the Earth's own oceans.
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But the annexation of the other planets of the Althosian system had left Nicaea economically and morally bankrupt.
red
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The pictures are the best indication so far that traces of life may be found on the red planet .
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Much wackiness ensues en route to the red planet .
terrestrial
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There are three main ways in which the terrestrial planets could have acquired their volatiles.
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The inner edge of the belt, the part closest to Mars and the other terrestrial planets , is compositionally complex.
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Finally, Mercury and the Moon may be much less thoroughly outgassed than the other terrestrial planets .
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The most likely fate is to collide with one of the terrestrial planets .
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Through all these means small bodies can bring to the terrestrial planets volatiles in sufficient abundance to match the observations.
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This astonishing discovery of polar ice on Mercury makes it clear that impacts play a major role on all the terrestrial planets .
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The mean density of Mercury indicates that its interior is substantially different from the interiors of the other terrestrial planets .
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Thus the four terrestrial planets are all affected in important but very different ways by comet and asteroid impacts.
whole
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Suddenly, a whole new planet was accessible; and not only accessible but available, unoccupied, deserted.
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It is, in a sense, a whole new planet .
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This whole planet is controlled by a vast defence system.
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If time did stop, for the whole planet , it would always happen between things.
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We're talking about weapons neither of us could use without destroying ourselves and probably our whole planet .
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Star of Tolerance will address the whole planet , so we are obliged to be as responsible as we can be.
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Elton John is probably the best bloke on the whole planet .
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Would even a hidden master squander a whole planet simply to test one individual?
■ NOUN
earth
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There are 5.8 billion people on planet Earth today.
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On the planet Earth , the first crude knot had been tied...
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The game that was being played out in the shadows around the planet Earth was old beyond even its understanding.
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Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth .
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No wonder failure exists on planet Earth .
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What exciting, fulfilling, profitable things do I want to do during my short span on planet Earth ?
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The rest of us humans are outside, but inside the test tube of planet Earth .
■ VERB
live
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The law-abiding seem to live on a different planet .
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The fact that future generations may find themselves living in a warmer planet can not be built into today's selection processes.
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Astronauts have learned that we live on a delicate planet whose complex workings are poorly understood.
save
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Anita doesn't want to save the planet any more.
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He was going to die saving an entire planet from the Daleks.
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Geoffrey Cannon explains how you can save the planet by saving yourself.
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In part two: Time to act ... the Greens plea to save our polluted planet from destruction.
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Their daughter was saving the planet from complete annihilation.
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The Green Party is campaigning on the simplest of tickets in this election ... the need to save our planet .
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She was much more fun after a few drinks, gently mocking her dedication to saving this planet .
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We have 10 years to make the decisions which could save the planet .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Saturn is the planet with rings around it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Certainly, evidence of intelligent civilizations on planets orbiting distant stars would be an epochal event in human history.
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In this way the differentiation of a planet may act to slow down the operation of the heat engine.
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It is almost certain that, during the Earth's early history, the planet was a frequent victim of cometary impacts.
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One of my boyfriends said that it's as if I was from another planet .
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The entire planet is fluid, like a star.
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The orbital motion of the earth provided a causal explanation for why the planets appeared to meander across the sky.
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We will take the animals to different planets.