(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.