orb

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

French orbe, from Latin orbis, circle, orb. Compare orbit.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: WEAE /oɹb/, (British) /ɔː(r)b/

  Rhymes: -ɔː(r)b

[edit] Noun

orb (plural orbs)

1. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.

   In the small orb of one particular tear. --Shakespeare.

   Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. -- John Milton.

2. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
3. A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.

   The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. --Bacon.

   You seem to me as Dian in her orb. --Shakespeare.

   In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --John Milton.

4. (rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. --John Milton.
5. (poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical.

   A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --John Milton.

6. (poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel.

   The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --John Milton.

7. (rare) A sphere of action. --William Wordsworth.

   But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --Shakespeare

8. Same as Mound, a ball or globe.
9. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography.

[edit] Translations

same as mound, a ball or globe
See mound, ball, globe

[edit] Verb

to orb (third-person singular simple present orbs, present participle orbing, simple past and past participle orbed)

1. (poetic) To form into an orb or circle. --Milton. Lowell.
2. (poetic) (transitive) To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
3. (transitive) In the television programme/program Charmed, to utilize the type of teleportation particularly associated with whitelighters.
4. (poetic) (intransitive) To become round like an orb.

[edit] Anagrams

• bor
• bro
• rob

[edit] References

• orb in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

[edit] Catalan

[edit] Etymology

from Latin orbus

[edit] Adjective

orb m. (feminine orba, masculine plural orbs, feminine plural orbes)

1. blind

[edit] Synonyms

• cec

[edit] Noun

orb m. (uncountable)

1. a fungal disease of wheat and other cereals

[edit] Estonian

[edit] Etymology

From the same Finno-Ugric root *orpa as Finnish orpo and Hungarian árva

[edit] Noun

orb

1. orphan

[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology

Latin orbus

[edit] Adjective

orb ^{4 nom/acc forms}

1. blind

[edit] Declension

[edit] Noun

orb m. (plural orbi)

1. blind man

[edit] Declension