Pronunciations (2)
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/ɔɹb/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/ɔːb/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
Noun
A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
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In the small orb of one particular tear.
Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled.
Celestial sphere; 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
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A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
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An orbit of an heavenly body
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- Uncountable
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The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.
You seem to me as Dian in her orb.
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In orbs / Of circuit inexpressible they stood, / Orb within orb.
The time period of an orbit
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Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd / By our own quick'ning power, when fatal course / Had circl'd his full Orbe, the birth mature / Of this our native Heav'n, Ethereal Sons.
The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
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- Poetic
- Uncountable
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A drop serene hath quenched their orbs.
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Painfully, he forced his hot eyelids to unclose, and his distended orbs sought for some object whereon to fix; they met the patch of grass, yet red with the blood of Walter Maynard.
Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
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The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled.
A sphere of action.
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- Rare
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By what fatality the orb of my genius […] acts upon these men like the moon upon a certain description of patients, it would be irksome to inquire
But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe.
A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
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A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
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A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
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Amount of deviation from the closest perfect aspect.
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For example, an approaching transitioning aspect (i.e., for 120 degrees) is effective when it remains within 2 degrees of orb on either side of the perfect angle.
Astrologers' opinions vary on how many degrees of orb to allow for each aspect.
For example Mars has its orb 7 degrees to the Sun.
Verb
To form into an orb or circle.
Usage- Poetic
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Let each His adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his helm, gripe fast his orbed shield
a full-orbed sun
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And is it that the haze of grief Hath stretch’d my former joy so great? […] Or that the past will always win A glory from its being far; And orb into the perfect star We saw not, when we moved therein?
To become round like an orb.
Usage- Intransitive
- Poetic
To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
Usage- Poetic
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The wheels were orbed with gold.
Noun
A blank window or panel.
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small blank windows or panels, for in later times such panels were called orbs, blind windows
Noun
the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
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an object with a spherical shape
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a ball of fire
Verb
move in an orbit
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The moon orbits around the Earth
The planets are orbiting the sun
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electrons orbit the nucleus