(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.
Sorb
Definition:
(n.) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
(n.) The fruit of these trees.
Example Sentences:
(1) The formation of phospholipid micelles was proved by linear dependence of the content of the sorbed phosphatidyl choline versus, the content of apoHDL bound to Sepharose.
(2) Relative contribution of integral intensity of the latter at 96 degrees C in sorbed water is about 4 times lower than in the liquid one.
(3) Aluminas, silicas and aluminosilicates were evaluated for their ability to sorb radiolabeled aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) from aqueous solution (in vitro).
(4) The results confirm the theory of cell volume regulation: volume changes of living cells in different solutions represent a balance between the tendency of intracellular proteins -- which exist in the fully extended conformation -- to polarize, sorb, and draw into the sac or cell more water and the opposite tendency to lose water from the sac or cell created by the lower level of the solutes in the cell or sac water than in the external medium.
(5) On the basis of the data obtained the nature of sorbing forces and structural properties of the albumine molecule concerned are discussed.
(6) The salt-protein, sucrose-starch, and salt-starch combinations sorbed less water than that predicted by calculated sorption values.
(7) This tube is connected to the permanent apparatus and the sorbed organics are thermally transferred to a small Tenex pre-column while the water vapor is vented.
(8) In aqueous media these compounds are reversible sorbed on the surface of the gel.
(9) Fourier transform infrared (FT IR) spectroscopy was conducted on solid samples of crystallin with and without irreversibly sorbed HCI gas.
(10) Pharmacokinetics and organe distribution of Methotrexate (MTX) in Gardner lymphosarcoma bearing C3H mice was investigated following two ways of drug administration: 1. intraperitoneal injection, 2. intratumoral implantation of 2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate gel with sorbed Methotrexate (localized chemotherapy).
(11) The powder-component (Bio-sorb, Surgikos) leads to an accelerated setting.
(12) The therapeutic AUVM effect is associated with the ability of these materials to rapidly sorb and eliminate inflammation-inducing mediators as well as the protective properties of the AUVM against secondary wound infections.
(13) Thus, the long-term (decades) efficacy of AC in sorbing radon in a soil environment will not be compromised by the blocking of its sorption sites by lead.
(14) For the less water soluble odorants (octane and amyl acetate), the uncut side did sorb significantly more odorant than the cut side.
(15) Immune lymphocytes sorbed on the surface of the target cells were characterized during the period of the first three hours of combined incubation by the presence of the electron-dense matrix, abundance of mitochondria and lipids; small lymphocytes had disseminated ribosome organized into polysomes in the medium lymphocytes forming individual cysterns of the granular endoplasmic reticulum in the large lymphocytes, this indicating active protein synthesis by these cells.
(16) It was also shown that the T-lymphocyte population forming "active" rosettes could be assessed by the number of SRBC sorbed on their surface.
(17) Besides these genes for known functions, three additional genes were discovered: sorC, coding for a transcriptional 40kD regulatory protein, and sorF and sorB, coding for two proteins of 14kD and 19kD, respectively, involved in transport.
(18) The AB-17-8 anionite and Ky-21-8 cationite are capable of adequately sorbing the poliovirus in pasteurized milk, but it is only from the cationite, and then only in a small amount, that eluation of the virus can be accomplished.
(19) The appearance of new TPF binding centres, alteration in fluorescence anisotropy of sorbed dye as well as inactivation of myosine ATPase of model fibres at high concentrations indicate that the cooperative phase of sorption is characterized by changes in the structure of contractile proteins.
(20) Comparing the metal content in oil fuel and waste gases showed that no more than 10% of the studied compounds are sorbed on the boiler walls, the remaining 90% being released into the atmosphere.