(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.
Orby
Definition:
(a.) Orblike; having the course of an orb; revolving.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi blessing from St Peter’s Basilica.
(2) He was in London, thinking about where to take Orbis next, eating his favourite tapas and pottering around Victoria, the home of his newly refurbished office.
(3) The person who produced the dossier detailing the allegations against Trump was named on Wednesday as 52-year-old former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, who co-founded the London-based firm Orbis Business Intelligence.
(4) Twenty-two hydrocephalic patients with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt using a continuously variable flow resistance valve (Orbis-Sigma valve system; Cordis Corporation, USA) were reviewed to discuss usefulness of the shunt system.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Journalists outside the London HQ of Orbis Business Intelligence.
(6) The defence brief argues that neither Steele nor Orbis is liable for Buzzfeed’s decision to print the document.
(7) 8 of 15 patients with a Holter-Hausner or Sigma-Orbis valve were reoperated because of insufficiency.
(8) Steele and Orbis say they never gave any copies to news organisations although Steele said he gave off-the-record briefings about the dossier to a small number of journalists in late summer and early autumn 2016.
(9) He was, however, visibly energised by his tour of the square and his delivery of the Urbi et Orbi address was forceful and at times impassioned.
(10) The Orbis-Sigma shunt was designed in the "Service des Enfants-Malades" precisely for this purpose.
(11) The Channel Islands offshore trust referred to in the section on Sir James Dyson was set up by Orbis Trustees Guernsey Limited.
(12) The document said that he passed the memos to Fusion on the understanding that Fusion would not disclose the material to any third parties without the approval of Steele and Orbis.
(13) Since the memo became public in January , Steele had not spoken about his role in compiling it but he and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence Limited, have filed a defence in the high court of justice in London, in a defamation case brought by Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian venture capitalist and owner of a global computer technology company, XBT, and a Dallas-based subsidiary Webzilla.
(14) The defence argues that Steele and Orbis were under a duty to pass on the information “so that it was known to the United Kingdom and United States governments at a high level by persons with responsibility for national security”.
(15) A statement by Steele’s defence lawyers, endorsed by the former MI6 agent, said Orbis was hired between June and November last year by Fusion GPS, a Washington-based research consultancy to look into Trump’s links with Russia .
(16) In the last 3 years an Orbis-Sigma system has been implanted in 40 hydrocephalic children (as a primary shunt in 28 and following another shunt system in 12).
(17) The pontiff delivered his Urbi et Orbi message to thousands of pilgrims who had gathered in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
(18) They did agree to Fusion providing a copy to Senator John McCain after the veteran Republican had been told about the existence of Steele’s research by Sir Andrew Wood, a former UK ambassador to Moscow and an Orbis associate, at a conference in Canada on 8 November.
(19) Kleinwort Benson purchased Orbis after the trust was wound up in 1999.
(20) With his business partner, Chris Burrows, he set up the London-based company Orbis Business Intelligence, which was busy and expanding.