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noun
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- (rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. --Milton.
- (poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical.
- A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --Milton.
- (poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel.
- The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --Milton.
- (rare) A sphere of action. --Wordsworth.
- But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --Shak
- Same as Mound, a ball or globe.
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography.
verb
- (poetic) To form into an orb or circle. --Milton. Lowell.
- (poetic) (transitive) To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
- (transitive) In the television programme/program w:Charmed, Charmed, to utilize the type of teleportation particularly associated with whitelighters.
- (poetic) (intransitive) To become round like an orb.
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noun
- A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.
- The Moon's around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
- A sphere of influence; an area of control.
- In the post WWII era, several eastern European countries came into the of the Soviet Union.
- The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range.
- The convenience store was a heavily travelled point in her daily , as she purchased both cigarettes and lottery tickets there.
- (anatomy) The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.
- (physics) The path an electron takes around an atom's nucleus
- (mathematics) A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
verb
- To circle or revolve around another object.
- The Earth orbits the Sun.
- To move around the general vicinity of something.
- The harried mother had a cloud of children orbiting her, asking for sweets.
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noun - an object which orbits another, especially a spacecraft that orbits a planet etc without landing on it
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