A person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano); SYN. accompanyist.
A person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano)
1. A person who is present.
2. One who attends or waits on another.
Australian term for a pal.
ETYM French compagnon, Old Fren. compaing, from an assumed Late Lat. companio (cf. companium fellowship, a mess), from Latin com- + panis bread. Related to Pantry.
1. A person who is frequently in the company of another; SYN. comrade, fellow, familiar, associate.
2. A traveler who accompanies you; SYN. fellow traveler, fellow traveller.
3. One paid to accompany or assist or live with another.
Accompanying (thing or circumstance).
ETYM Latin consore, -sortis; con- + sors lot, fate, share. Related to Sort.
1. One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
2. A ship keeping company with another.
3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.
4. An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
5. Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
ETYM French escorte, Italian scorta a guard or guide, from scorgere to perceive, discern, lead, from Latin ex out, quite + corrigere to correct, set right. Related to Correct.
1. An attendant who is employed to accompany someone.
2. The act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them; SYN. accompaniment.
1. A mounted attendant
2. One who escorts or clears the way for a vehicle or person
3. Forerunner, harbinger
4. Someone who is a member of the vanguard.
1. A person employed to carry luggage and supplies.
2. A railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars); SYN. redcap, Pullman porter.
ETYM French, from Latin satelles, -itis, an attendant.
See communications satellite.
1. A man-made object that orbits around the earth; SYN. artificial satellite.
2. A person who follows or serves another; SYN. planet.
3. Any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star.
Any small body that orbits a larger one, either natural or artificial. Natural satellites that orbit planets are called moons. The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched into orbit around the Earth by the ussr 1957. Artificial satellites are used for scientific purposes, communications, weather forecasting, and military applications. The largest artificial satellites can be seen by the naked eye.
At any time, there are several thousand artificial satellites orbiting the Earth, including active satellites, satellites that have ended their working lives, and discarded sections of rockets. Artificial satellites eventually re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Usually they burn up by friction, but sometimes debris falls to the Earth’s surface, as with Skylab and Salyut 7.
More than 70,000 pieces of space junk, ranging from disabled satellites to tiny metal fragments, are careering around the Earth. The extent of such waste is likely to increase, as the waste particles in orbit are continually colliding and fragmenting further.
Any of several breeds of dog, bred originally for herding sheep. The dog now most commonly used by shepherds and farmers in Britain to tend sheep is the border collie. Non-pedigree dogs of the border collie type, though more variable in size and color, are referred to as working sheepdogs. Other recognized British breeds are the Old English and Shetland sheepdogs. Many countries have their own breeds of sheepdog, such as the Belgian sheepdog, Australian kelpie and Hungarian puli. sheep dog, sheep-dog.
1. Young nobleman attendant on a knight.
2. A man who attends or escorts a woman; SYN. gallant.
3. (British) An English country landowner.
A large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor.
1. A framework on wheels; helps babies learn to walk; SYN. baby-walker, go-cart.
2. A framework with rubber feet; helps cripples to walk.