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Orb vs Globe - What's the difference?

orb | globe |

Globe is a synonym of orb.



As nouns the difference between orb and globe

is that orb is a spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star while globe is any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.

As verbs the difference between orb and globe

is that orb is to form into an orb or circle while globe is to become spherical.

As an initialism ORB

is initialism of Object Request Broker|lang=en.

As a proper noun Globe is

a city in Arizona.

orb

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) orbe, from (etyl) . Compare orbit .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
    • In the small orb of one particular tear. --
    Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. --
  • 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
    • 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. --
    In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --
  • (rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
    • (John Milton)
  • (poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical
    • A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --
  • (poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel
    • The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --
  • (rare) A sphere of action.
    • (William Wordsworth)
    But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (poetic) to form into an orb or circle
    • (Lowell)
    (Milton)
  • (poetic) to encircle; to surround; to enclose
  • * Addison
    • The wheels were orbed with gold.
  • (poetic) to become round like an orb

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A blank window or panel.

    • References

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    Anagrams

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    globe

    English

    (wikipedia globe)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
    • the globe''' of the eye; the '''globe of a lamp
  • The planet Earth.
    • (John Locke)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe . Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
  • A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
  • (dated, or, Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
  • * 1920 , Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)
    • Don't ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them.
  • A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
  • * Milton
    • Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

    Synonyms

    * (The Earth) Earth, world, Terra, Sol III

    Derived terms

    * globe-trotter * show globe * snowglobe

    Related terms

    * global * globular

    Verb

    (glob)
  • To become spherical
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