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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- (architecture) A blank window or panel.
- 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
- A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit
- (rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
- (poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical
- (poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel
- (rare) A sphere of action.
- A globus cruciger
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography
- (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
Verbit
- (poetic) to form into an orb or circle
- (poetic, transitive) to encircle; to surround; to enclose
- (poetic, intransitive) to become round like an orb
Esimerkit
- In the small orb of one particular tear. --Shakespeare
- Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. -- John Milton
- The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. --Bacon
- You seem to me as Dian in her orb. --Shakespeare
- In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --John Milton
- A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --John Milton
- The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --John Milton
- But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --Shakespeare
- The wheels were orbed with gold.
- Then he remembered that it was about the time of the new moon, and if that tricksy orb was in one of its stages of visibility it had set long before.
- In England, when a king and queen are crowned together, only the king receives an orb.
- The Sun is an orb that influences life.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | orbed |
| Imperfekti | orbed |
| Partisiipin preesens | orbing |
| Monikko | orbs |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | orbs |