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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

astrogate en · VERB

Etymology

Blend of astro- + navigate.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft.
    • Sure, Mike was used to having many loads in trajectory at once—but had never had to astrogate more than one at a time. Now he had hundreds and had promised to deliver twenty-nine of them simultaneously to the exact second at twenty-nine pinpointed targets. 1966, Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, New York: Ace, published 2018, Book 3, Chapter 25:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
astrogates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
astrogating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
astrogated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
astrogated Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

astrogation · astrogator