orb

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

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

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[edit] Noun

Singular
orb

Plural
orbs

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. --Shak.
    Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. --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. --Shak.
    In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --Milton.
  4. (rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. --Milton.
  5. (poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical.
    A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --Milton.
  6. (poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel.
    The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --Milton.
  7. (rare) A sphere of action. --Wordsworth.
    But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --Shak
  8. Same as Mound, a ball or globe.
  9. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography.

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circle
See circle

orbit
See orbit

period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body
See year

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

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to orb

Third person singular
orbs

Simple past
orbed

Past participle
orbed

Present participle
orbing

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.

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[edit] Etymology

from Latin orbus

[edit] Adjective

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

Singular
orb
orba f.

Plural
orbs m.
orbes f.

  1. blind

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orb m. (uncountable)

  1. a fungal disease of wheat and other cereals

[edit] Estonian

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

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orb

  1. orphan

[edit] Romanian

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Latin orbus

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orb 4 nom/acc forms

  1. blind

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singular plural
Nom/Acc masculine & neuter feminine masculine feminine & neuter
indefinite orb oarbă orbi oarbe
definite orbul oarba orbii oarbele
Gen/Dat no special indefinite forms in genitive & dative cases
definite orbului oarbei orbilor oarbelor

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orb m. (plural orbi)

  1. blind man

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