eyeball, orb
(noun) the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
ball, globe, orb
(noun) an object with a spherical shape; āa ball of fireā
orb, orbit, revolve
(verb) move in an orbit; āThe moon orbits around the Earthā; āThe planets are orbiting the sunā; āelectrons orbit the nucleusā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
orb (plural orbs)
A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit
(rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
(poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical
(poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel
(rare) A sphere of action.
A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power
A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
(military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
• (spherical body): ball, globe, sphere
• (circle): circle, orbit
• (a period of time): See Thesaurus:year
• (an eye): See Thesaurus:eye
• (revolving circular body): roller, wheel
• (sphere of action): area, domain, field, province
• (monarch's ceremonial sphere): globe, globus cruciger, mound, orb
• (military formation): globe
orb (third-person singular simple present orbs, present participle orbing, simple past and past participle orbed)
(poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
(poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
(poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
orb (plural orbs)
(architecture) A blank window or panel.
• BOR, Bor, Bor., ROB, Rob, bor, bro, bro., rob
ORB (plural ORBs)
(software engineering) Initialism of object request broker.
• BOR, Bor, Bor., ROB, Rob, bor, bro, bro., rob
Source: Wiktionary
Orb, n. Etym: [OF. orb blind, fr. L. orbus destitute.] (Arch.)
Definition: A blank window or panel. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.
Orb, n. Etym: [F. orbe, fr. L. orbis circle, orb. Cf. Orbit.]
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; esp., 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. A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. [R.] Milton.
5. The eye, as luminous and spherical. [Poetic] A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. Milton.
6. A revolving circular body; a wheel. [Poetic] The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. Milton.
7. A sphere of action. [R.] Wordsworth. But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. Shak
8. Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
9. (Mil.)
Definition: A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
Syn.
– Globe; ball; sphere. See Globe.
Orb, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Orbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Orbing.]
1. To form into an orb or circle. [Poetic] Milton. Lowell.
2. To encircle; to surround; to inclose. [Poetic] The wheels were orbed with gold. Addison.
Orb, v. i.
Definition: To become round like an orb. [Poetic] And orb into the perfect star. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
