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Synonyms for orb

Grammar : Noun
Spell : awrb
Phonetic Transcription : ɔrb


Définition of orb

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "sphere, globe, something spherical or circular," from Old French orbe "orb, globe" (13c.) and directly from Latin orbem (nominative orbis) "circle, disk, ring, hoop, orbit," probably related to orbita "wheel track, rut," of unknown origin. Watkins suggests a connection with the root of orchid.
  • A three-dimensional extension of a word originally describing two-dimensional shapes. Astronomical sense is in reference to the hollow spheres that carried the planets and stars in the Ptolemaic system. As a verb from c.1600. Orb weaver spider is first recorded 1889.
  • noun globe
Example sentences :
  • The ray which appears in the dazzled eye should not be represented.with the orb.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • Looking into the orb of light, he sees nothing, but he is warmed and elevated.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • The deepening of the cloud is essentially necessary to the redness of the orb.
  • Extract from : « The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century » by John Ruskin
  • Yet, between the orb of the moon and my box, there was some obstruction.
  • Extract from : « The Five Jars » by Montague Rhodes James
  • One-Eye aimed his one orb at Big Tom as if it were a bullet.
  • Extract from : « The Rich Little Poor Boy » by Eleanor Gates
  • Besides these symbols is delineated in each compartment an orb of heaven.
  • Extract from : « Moon Lore » by Timothy Harley
  • Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
  • Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett
  • He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.
  • Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett
  • The rays that had gilded him had gone back to the orb that lent.
  • Extract from : « What Will He Do With It, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • That orb is of a sinister appearance, but to do it justice it looks heated.
  • Extract from : « Hypolympia » by Edmund Gosse

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