"call" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The first four planets are called terrestrial planets because they are rocky.
- Irenaeus tells us: "the holy Hebdomad is the seven stars which they call planets" (i. 30).
- Long before there were telescopes, astronomers or written history, people gazed up at "wandering stars" that later observers would call planets.
- There are much bigger astronomical objects that we don't call planets, so it was either upgrade those or downgrade Pluto.
- The acuteness of the early observers enabled them to single out the more important of the wanderers which we now call planets.
- When that's not enough, someone will start calling them planets and galaxies.
- Meanwhile there's a sphere of dust and fragments around each star; those fragments we call planets.
- At least two more bodies were discovered later, and called planets:
- (The Sun and Moon were sometimes called planets as well.)
- It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets.
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