(n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
(n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
(v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
(3) In reduction mammaplasty by the inferior pedicle technique, the dermal-breast pedicle can be manipulated to form a central breast mound and enhance breast projection.
(4) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
(5) A tongue-shaped flap of the fat and the anterior sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle, approximately 7 cm in length, is pulled up, gathered, and inserted to reconstruct the breast mound.
(6) With the exception of poor Jose Valverde, the Tigers pitching recovered in Game Two once that Verlander guy was out of the way, and so at least that side of the game seems to be in a better place for Detroit, especially with the Animal, Anibal Sanchez on the mound tonight.
(7) Next to the pupil there was often a perceptible mound, presumably representing the iris sphincter.
(8) Sperm were not transported into the cloacae of artificially inseminated, anesthetized females without prior administration of norepinephrine to their cloacal mounds.
(9) Treated areas become covered with irregular mounds of RPE cells within seven days.
(10) Conservatively, I’d estimate that 90% of my time was spent making my students do colouring in while I sat in an impossibly tiny chair, with my knees around my ears, silently dreading the inedible mound of uncategorised meat that would invariably pass for that day’s lunch.
(11) The tying run is coming to the plate and a new pitcher is coming to the mound... Jon Smalldon (@jonsmalldon) Brandon Crawford!
(12) Reconstruction of the breast after super-radical mastectomy is difficult because not only a breast mound but also the subclavicular and anterior axillary regions must be reconstructed simultaneously.
(13) Individual cysts were found to be lined by a single layer of epithelial cells in most areas, with focal polyps and mounds of cells principally in collecting duct cysts.
(14) Each mound with its own tableau of what once were laughing, dreaming, busy human beings.
(15) Sox on the Beach (@SoxontheBeach) Also, why are the A's fans behind home plate waving towels when THEIR pitcher is in the mound?
(16) In contrast, the flat-mound and translucent-mound mutants, which aggregate normally, produced very few spores.
(17) Scanning electron microscopy revealed small mound-like lesions protruding from an intact endothelium in birds treated with an initiating dose of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (Me2BA) followed by twice weekly injections of the alpha 1-selective adrenergic agonist methoxamine for 20 weeks.
(18) Breast reconstruction has become such a commonplace procedure over the last ten years that we as plastic surgeons are no longer content to simply create a mound.
(19) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
(20) The argon laser caused a gradual mounding up of iris pigment epithelium with each successive energy application before final penetration.
Orb
Definition:
(n.) A blank window or panel.
(n.) A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
(n.) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
(n.) The eye, as luminous and spherical.
(n.) A revolving circular body; a wheel.
(n.) A sphere of action.
(n.) Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
(n.) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
(v. t.) To form into an orb or circle.
(v. t.) To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
(v. i.) To become round like an orb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Matt Roller (@rolldiggity) A lot of people say the Orb is evil.
(2) The same Twitter account directed people last week to envelopes with $50 and $100 inside them in San Francisco and 36 cash-filled "Angry Birds orbs" in Hermosa Beach, California.
(3) FitBug Orb and Kik Plans The FitBug Orb, released last year, makes fitness trackers more affordable at under £50.
(4) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(5) In the movie, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of misfits who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb.
(6) Isn’t that a good thing?” But an ORB opinion poll for the Independent found 76% believe the party has become less electable since the general election while 24% believe the party has become more electable.
(7) In contrast, Orbeli used the salivary conditional reflex method, which he considered to be more precise than the method that relied on erratic movements of a dog.
(8) Pavlov's disciples L. A. Orbeli and N. I. Krasnogorskiĭ had considered the ontogenetic development of language.
(9) I was doing an interview for one of those pop keyboard magazines, and the guy said to me ‘What do you think of The Orb?’ And I said ‘What’s The Orb?’ And he said ‘You don’t know?’ And I said ‘No I don’t know,’ and he said ‘You should know,’ and he handed me the CD and I took it home there was Electric Counterpoint.
(10) Better yet, when you kill anything with your special weapon it floods the area with orbs, a social currency that can be picked up by your team mates and used to quickly charge their own specials.
(11) The ORB and PSS articulator settings obtained from the two techniques were compared and the following conclusions drawn.
(12) But the ORB Telegraph poll put remain on 55% and leave trailing on 42% among people who definitely intend to vote.
(13) I will negotiate with the Orb, make it work for us.
(14) Dark, compound orbs on a yellow speckled head, joined to a winged, segmented body.
(15) Two distinct families of low-molecular-weight toxins (argiotoxins) have been isolated from the venom of the orb-web spider.
(16) Much was made of the royal couple's modernity (the aeroplanes, radio and television), and the young Queen's femininity, able to juggle children and a handbag, along with the crown of state and orb and sceptre.
(17) Iwant to walk on the Moon, kick up the fine dust and watch it gently settle on my boot, and see the sparkling blue orb of the Earth rise over the horizon.
(18) This is related to his being on the crinkly side of 60 but mostly, I suspect, it's a perception that he'd got ratty and weary inside Norman Foster's glassy orb .
(19) The speaker means this as a good thing, yet questions inevitably bubble up: just where did said orbs go, and who wielded the offending secateurs?
(20) Uber France boss Thibaud Simphal called the raid a “disproportionate action carried out on a very fragile legal basis” in comments to L’Orbs magazine.