(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.
Ort
Definition:
(n.) A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) At present it may be concluded that ORT per se does not place the postmenopausal women at greater risk from developing arterio-venous thrombosis.
(2) Group I had normal or minor changes of capillary morphology and significantly better ORT and ORI values than group II.
(3) Sugar-based oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for diarrhea is promoted in many countries in the world.
(4) These mothers thought that ORT was a medicine that would cure the diarrhea.
(5) Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) has had a dramatic global impact.
(6) In México there have been two national surveys to evaluate the ORT program.
(7) In developed communities where mortality from acute diarrhoea is already low, ORT has been underutilised.
(8) Three out of 11 patients with atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) had VA values greater than or equal to 70 msec, while 5 of 28 patients with orthodromic reciprocating tachycardia (ORT) had values less than or equal to 70 msec.
(9) The 1st step in ORT is to weigh the patient and assess the degree of dehydration.
(10) Without WS&S and hygiene education ORT programs are not likely to effect long-term improvement in child health status.
(11) Effectiveness of ORT against severe diarrheal dehydration was based on the formula for assessment of vaccine efficacy by using the odds ratio (OR).
(12) During the last five years major efforts have been made to train community health care personnel and mothers in developing countries in the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT).
(13) ORT is as effective in treating adults with diarrhea as it is in children.
(14) During the 36-hour-period of ORT fluid losses were about the same as the fluid intake.
(15) It was concluded that with the exceptions of lactose intolerance and coexisting infection, lack of commitment to ORT and the easy access to IVT must have contributed significantly to the suboptimal outcome.
(16) Diarrhoeal disease control programmes need to modify service delivery to ensure that breast-feeding mothers are not separated from their infants while being treated with oral rehydration therapy (ORT) as inpatients or outpatients.
(17) We conclude that it is important to consider age when prescribing ORT.
(18) ORT was administered via a nasogastric tube to 3 adult intensive care patients who developed severe diarrhoea and post-operative acute renal impairment.
(19) CWT and ORT elicited equivalent increases in noradrenaline in venous plasma in both groups (p less than 0.05), but the IDDM patients had 50% lower values (p less than 0.01) at rest, during CWT and at rest after CWT than controls.
(20) An account of object relations theory (ORT), represented in terms of the procedural sequence model (PSM), is compared to the ideas of Vygotsky and activity theory (AT).