orb
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Is orb a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a spherecountableuncountable
2. (rare) The time period of an orbitExamples: "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."Synonyms: yearcountablerareuncountable
3. (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entityExamples: "A drop serene hath quenched their orbs."; "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."Synonyms: eyecountablepoeticuncountable
4. (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheelExamples: "The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled."Synonyms: roller, wheelcountablepoeticuncountable
5. (rare) A sphere of action.Examples: "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."Synonyms: area, domain, field, provincecountablerareuncountable
6. (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.Synonyms: circle, orbit, globecountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.Examples: "Let each His adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his helm, gripe fast his orbed shield"; "a full-orbed sun"; "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?"poetictransitive
2. (poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.intransitivepoetic
3. (poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.Examples: "The wheels were orbed with gold."poetictransitive
noun (English)
1. (architecture) A blank window or panel.Examples: "small blank windows or panels, for in later times such panels were called orbs, blind windows"
noun (English)
1. (software engineering) Initialism of object request broker.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
2. (historical, military) Initialism of operations record book (used by RAF).abbreviationalt-ofhistoricalinitialism
Definition source: Wiktionary