Orb vs Roller - What's the difference?
orb | roller |
A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
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.
(poetic) to form into an orb or circle
(poetic) to encircle; to surround; to enclose
* Addison
(poetic) to become round like an orb
(lb) Anything that rolls.
#Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
#A person who rolls something, as in "cigar roller".
#(lb) A heavy rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
#A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
#An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
#One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
#A roller towel.
#A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
#Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves.
#Any of the small ground snakes of the family .
A long wide bandage used in surgery.
A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
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*:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend?; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits?; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
(lb) A bird.
#A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler, tumbler pigeon, English Short Faced Tumbler, English Long Faced Tumbler).
#Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
(also written Roller) A car made by Rolls-Royce.
The police (old blues slang).
A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
*2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 69:
*:I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller . The names of the writers went on for ever.
As an initialism orb
is (software engineering).As a proper noun roller is
(slang) a rolls-royce car.orb
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) orbe, from (etyl) . Compare orbit .Noun
(en noun)- In the small orb of one particular tear. --
- Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. --
- 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. --
- (John Milton)
- A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --
- The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --
- (William Wordsworth)
- But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --
Verb
(en verb)- (Lowell)
- (Milton)
- The wheels were orbed with gold.