(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.
Orc
Definition:
(n.) The grampus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Genes play an important etiological role in ORC-related psychiatric side effects.
(2) Electron-microscopic studies of 2 of the Mabs in this class showed that they recognize antigens associated with the cell membrane and that the immunoreactive ORC axons are bundled together in fascicles in the antennal nerve.
(3) To investigate the etiological role of genetic factors in ORC-related symptoms, we studied questionnaire responses in 715 monozygotic and 416 dizygotic volunteer twin pairs concordant for ORC usage.
(4) A poll late last week, by CNN and ORC International , revealed that only 34% of Americans now support the war, one percentage point down on the previous all-time low.
(5) CNN, together with the market research company ORC, conducted a poll with a more robust methodology, although they only managed to speak to 537 registered voters in total (only 27% of whom identified as Republican).
(6) Stableflex (ORC) is a PMMA anterior chamber intraocular lens with closed and flexible loops permitting the philosophy of "one size fits all" in 90% of the eyes.
(7) Pyloric and cardiac glands were stained faintly with ox-orc but not with ox-HID or ox-AB.
(8) Multivariate genetic analysis indicated that both the genetic and the individual-specific environmental factors that influenced the liability to ORC-related depression and irritability were largely distinct from those that influence baseline levels of psychiatric symptoms.
(9) The protection in situ is similar to that generated by the origin recognition complex (ORC) protein.
(10) The authors report on their experience with UV-absorbent posterior chamber IOLs (ORC) implanted between April 1, 1984 and April 1, 1985 (n = 125).
(11) One group had the area of the aorta with the patch wrapped with oxidized regenerated cellulose (ORC); the other group served as a control.
(12) P. putida ORC, on the other hand, possesses individual hydroxylases for orcinol and resorcinol, which are specifically induced by growth on their respective substrates.
(13) In the control group, rabbits were fed commercial chow (ORC 4).
(14) Results demonstrate that ORC produced graded reduction in adhesion formation and significantly prevented adhesion reformation.
(15) In the investigation reported here, we examined the expression of the antigens during postembryonic development in order to correlate the presence of particular antigens with the status of differentiation of the ORCs or with their acquisition of particular functions.
(16) Immediately after this period of mitoses, the OSA immunoreactivity reappears exclusively in the ORCs, which begin to elaborate axons as an early event in their differentiation.
(17) In films featuring Dracula, Tony Montana, Orcs or even Achilles, the parameters are more clearly drawn.
(18) He’s been shot, stabbed, pulled apart by horses, chased off a cliff by cows, thrown off a giant satellite dish, blown up, beheaded and turned into a human pin-cushion by Orc arrows.
(19) Then everyone files out and goes into the next demo room – and you do this for the three days that the event runs, like being strapped to a conveyor belt of hype, until you don’t know where you are any more and all the games have merged into one narrative about a spec-ops warrior slaughtering orcs on Saturn.
(20) This antibody demonstrates that male-specific ORCs are molecularly distinct from other types of ORCs.