Synonyms of the word orb


ORBBALL - CAPSULE - CIRCLE - CIRCULATE - EYEBALL - GLOBE - ORBIT - REVOLVE - SPHERE

orb

  • 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…
  • n. A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body;…
  • n. (rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
  • n. (poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical.
  • n. (poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel.
  • n. (rare) A sphere of action.
  • n. A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power.
  • n. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography.
  • n. (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
  • v. (poetic) to form into an orb or circle.
  • v. (poetic, transitive) to encircle; to surround; to enclose.
  • v. (poetic, intransitive) to become round like an orb.
  • n. (architecture) A blank window or panel.

ball

  • n. A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.
  • n. (sports) The use of a round or ellipsoidal object.
  • n. (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
  • n. (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used…
  • n. (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
  • v. (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
  • v. (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
  • v. (transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather…
  • v. (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
  • v. (nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
  • interj. (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This…
  • n. A formal dance.
  • n. (informal) A very enjoyable time.

capsule

  • n. (physiology) A membranous envelope.
  • n. (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants,…
  • n. (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
  • n. A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
  • n. (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
  • n. (dialectal, Britain, Suffolk) A weasel.
  • n. (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form.
  • n. (winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the…
  • n. (chemistry, dated) A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
  • n. A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
  • n. A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To form (medicine, etc.) into capsules.
  • v. (transitive) To encapsulate or summarize.

circle

  • n. (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a…
  • n. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a…
  • n. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
  • n. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
  • n. Orbit.
  • n. A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
  • n. (cricket) A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight…
  • n. (Wicca) A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the…
  • n. (South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.
  • n. (obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.
  • n. (astronomy) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed…
  • n. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
  • n. (logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive…
  • n. Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
  • n. A territorial division or district.
  • n. (in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
  • v. (transitive) To travel around along a curved path.
  • v. (transitive) To surround.
  • v. (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel in circles.

circulate

  • v. (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit.
  • v. (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit.
  • v. to move from person to person, as at a party.
  • v. to spread or disseminate.
  • v. to become widely known.

eyeball

  • n. the ball of the eye.
  • v. To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.
  • v. To scrutinize.

globe

  • n. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
  • n. The planet Earth.
  • n. A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
  • n. (dated or Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
  • n. A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
  • n. (slang, chiefly plural) A woman's breasts..
  • v. To become spherical.

orbit

  • n. A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.
  • n. A sphere of influence; an area of control.
  • n. The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range.
  • n. (anatomy) The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.
  • n. (physics) A mathematical function that describes the wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom; area…
  • n. (mathematics) A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
  • n. (geometry, group theory) The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members…
  • v. To circle or revolve around another object.
  • v. To move around the general vicinity of something.
  • v. To place an object into an orbit around a planet.

revolve

  • v. (intransitive) To orbit a central point.
  • v. To turn on an axis.
  • v. (intransitive) To recur in cycles.
  • v. (transitive) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

sphere

  • n. (mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure…
  • n. A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.
  • n. (astronomy, now rare) The apparent outer limit of space; the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow…
  • n. (historical, astronomy, mythology) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to…
  • n. (mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
  • n. (figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
  • n. (geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology)…
  • n. (logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which…
  • v. (transitive) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
  • v. (transitive) To make round or spherical; to perfect.

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