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Aster vs Astern - What's the difference?

aster | astern |

As a noun aster

is (l).

As an adverb astern is

(label) beyond the stern when viewed from aboard.

As an adjective astern is

(nautical) behind.

aster

English

(wikipedia aster) (wikispecies)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A star.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
    • by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters and planets are caused and transported.
  • Any of several plants of the genus Aster ; one of its flowers.
  • * 1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), , Penguin 2011, p.120:
    • On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.
  • (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.

    • Derived terms

    * asteroid * China aster ()

    Related terms

    * astro-

    Anagrams

    * ----

    astern

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (label) Beyond the stern when viewed from aboard.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}

    Derived terms

    * astern of

    Antonyms

    * ahead

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (nautical) behind
  • * If one ship is following another, the first is astern when viewed from the second.

    • Usage notes

    * Within the ship, the corresponding adjective is abaft. An object nearer the stern than the mainmast is abaft the mainmast.

    Anagrams

    * *