"meteorwrong" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined by replacing the final syllable of meteorite, which sounds like right, with wrong.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meteorwrongs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "meteorwrong (plural meteorwrongs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "me‧te‧or‧wrong"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Astronomy",
          "orig": "en:Astronomy",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "Space",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rocks",
          "orig": "en:Rocks",
          "parents": [
            "Geology",
            "Natural materials",
            "Earth sciences",
            "Materials",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "Manufacturing",
            "All topics",
            "Human activity",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964, The Griffith Observer, volume 28, Los Angeles, Calif.: Griffith Observatory, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 1:",
          "text": "A scarlet precipitate (C₈H₁₄N₄O₄Ni) will be present if nickel is present. A negative test for nickel means you have a \"meteorwrong.\" A positive test may indicate you have a meteorite, but since there are many commercial nickel-iron alloys it is not a conclusive test.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Lincoln LaPaz, Topics in Meteoritics: Hunting Meteorites: Their Recovery, Use, and Abuse from Paleolithic to Present (University of New Mexico Publications in Meteoritics; 6), Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →OCLC, page 171:",
          "text": "Unfortunately, the object turned out to be only a “meteorwrong”—although a deceptive one.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, O. Richard Norton, Lawrence A. Chitwood, “A Gallery of Meteorwrongs”, in Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, London: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 175:",
          "text": "Vastly more meteorwrongs are found than meteorites. This should be no surprise. A host of Earth objects—natural and manmade—do indeed look like meteorites, and they are just waiting to be found and to confuse you.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mike [Michael] D. Reynolds, “Meteorite Classification”, in Falling Stars: A Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, 2nd revised and updated edition, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 63:",
          "text": "Those who work in the field looking for meteorites keep a magnet with them at all times. This is always the first test; if the meteorite suspect is not magnetic, it is a \"meteorwrong.\" Good collectors learn very quickly how to identify meteorwrongs since what may be represented as a very rare stone meteorite (at $200 a gram!) could turn out to be an expensive piece of junk. The classic meteorwrong is an igneous rock known as a Cumberlandite.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rock that is believed to be a meteorite, but is in fact terrestrial in origin; a pseudometeorite."
      ],
      "id": "en-meteorwrong-en-noun-SDPP6~kr",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "rock",
          "rock#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "believe",
          "believe"
        ],
        [
          "meteorite",
          "meteorite"
        ],
        [
          "terrestrial",
          "terrestrial"
        ],
        [
          "origin",
          "origin"
        ],
        [
          "pseudometeorite",
          "pseudometeorite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) A rock that is believed to be a meteorite, but is in fact terrestrial in origin; a pseudometeorite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmiː.tɪ.ə.ɹɒŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-uk-meteorwrong.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/En-uk-meteorwrong.oga/En-uk-meteorwrong.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/En-uk-meteorwrong.oga"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmi.ti.əˌɹɑŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ɾi-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ɹɔŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meteorwrong"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined by replacing the final syllable of meteorite, which sounds like right, with wrong.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meteorwrongs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "meteorwrong (plural meteorwrongs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "me‧te‧or‧wrong"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Astronomy",
        "en:Rocks"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964, The Griffith Observer, volume 28, Los Angeles, Calif.: Griffith Observatory, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 1:",
          "text": "A scarlet precipitate (C₈H₁₄N₄O₄Ni) will be present if nickel is present. A negative test for nickel means you have a \"meteorwrong.\" A positive test may indicate you have a meteorite, but since there are many commercial nickel-iron alloys it is not a conclusive test.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Lincoln LaPaz, Topics in Meteoritics: Hunting Meteorites: Their Recovery, Use, and Abuse from Paleolithic to Present (University of New Mexico Publications in Meteoritics; 6), Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →OCLC, page 171:",
          "text": "Unfortunately, the object turned out to be only a “meteorwrong”—although a deceptive one.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, O. Richard Norton, Lawrence A. Chitwood, “A Gallery of Meteorwrongs”, in Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, London: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 175:",
          "text": "Vastly more meteorwrongs are found than meteorites. This should be no surprise. A host of Earth objects—natural and manmade—do indeed look like meteorites, and they are just waiting to be found and to confuse you.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mike [Michael] D. Reynolds, “Meteorite Classification”, in Falling Stars: A Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, 2nd revised and updated edition, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 63:",
          "text": "Those who work in the field looking for meteorites keep a magnet with them at all times. This is always the first test; if the meteorite suspect is not magnetic, it is a \"meteorwrong.\" Good collectors learn very quickly how to identify meteorwrongs since what may be represented as a very rare stone meteorite (at $200 a gram!) could turn out to be an expensive piece of junk. The classic meteorwrong is an igneous rock known as a Cumberlandite.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rock that is believed to be a meteorite, but is in fact terrestrial in origin; a pseudometeorite."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "rock",
          "rock#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "believe",
          "believe"
        ],
        [
          "meteorite",
          "meteorite"
        ],
        [
          "terrestrial",
          "terrestrial"
        ],
        [
          "origin",
          "origin"
        ],
        [
          "pseudometeorite",
          "pseudometeorite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) A rock that is believed to be a meteorite, but is in fact terrestrial in origin; a pseudometeorite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmiː.tɪ.ə.ɹɒŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-uk-meteorwrong.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/En-uk-meteorwrong.oga/En-uk-meteorwrong.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/En-uk-meteorwrong.oga"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmi.ti.əˌɹɑŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ɾi-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ɹɔŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meteorwrong"
}