Star
Star noun - A ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light.
Usage example: it's difficult to see the stars at night in the middle of the city because of all the streetlights
White dwarf and star are semantically related. In some cases you can use "White dwarf" instead a noun "Star".
White dwarf
White dwarf noun - A faint star of enormous density.
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Star and white dwarf are semantically related. You can use "Star" instead a noun phrase "White dwarf".
Both terms in one sentence
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Hurl a white dwarf, or better, a neutron star, into your target star and watch how the former rips apart the latter.
Source: Star Killing - No white dwarf, no neutron star, no black hole, just a huge cloud expanding out into the universe from where the star used to be.
- A nova requires a white dwarf to be orbiting another star, so closely that it can pull material off the other star's surfacenote forming a system called a "mass-exchange binary".
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