Galaxy vs Galaxywide - What's the difference?
galaxy | galaxywide |
* 1633 , John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.
Throughout a galaxy.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1949
, date = January
, first = Henry
, last = Kuttner
, authorlink = Henry Kuttner
, title = Time Axis
, magazine =
, volume = 18
, issue = 3
, page = 50
, passage = I immediately assigned an all-out search, Galaxywide .
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1959
, date = June
, first = Larry M.
, last = Harris
, authorlink = Laurence Janifer
, title = Extracts from the Galactick Almanack
, magazine =
, url = http://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1959-06/Galaxy_1959_06page/n134/mode/1up
, volume = 17
, issue = 5
, page = 136
, passage = Critics on both sides of what rapidly became a Galaxywide controversy were forced, however, to acknowledge the magnificent playing of the Student Orchestra and its great technical attainments.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1989
, first = Jack
, last = McKinney
, authorlink = Jack McKinney (writer)
, title = The End of the Circle
, isbn = 9780345363114
, page = 203
, passage = Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined.
}}
* (seemoreCites)
As a proper noun galaxy
is (astronomy|dated) the milky way galaxy, from when it was thought the universe (our universe) had only one galaxy.As an adjective galaxywide is
throughout a galaxy.galaxy
English
Noun
(galaxies)- So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
