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sphere | anglodom |

As nouns the difference between sphere and anglodom

is that sphere is sphere while anglodom is the realm, sphere, or influence of english or anglo-american language or culture.

sphere

English

(wikipedia sphere)

Alternative forms

* (archaic) * sphear (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter .
  • A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.
  • * Milton
  • Of celestial bodies, first the sun, / A mighty sphere , he framed.
  • * 2011 , Piers Sellers, The Guardian , 6 July:
  • So your orientation changes a little bit but it sinks in that the world is a sphere , and you're going around it, sometimes under it, sideways, or over it.
  • * 1635 , John Donne, "His parting form her":
  • Though cold and darkness longer hang somewhere, / Yet Phoebus equally lights all the Sphere .
  • (historical, astronomy, mythology) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres ).
  • *, vol.1, p.153:
  • It is more simplicitie to teach our children[t]he knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eighth spheare , before their owne.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.6:
  • They understood not the motion of the eighth sphear from West to East, and so conceived the longitude of the Stars invariable.
  • (mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
  • (figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.20:
  • They thought – originally on grounds derived from religion – that each thing or person had its or his proper sphere , to overstep which is ‘unjust’.
  • (geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n -dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .
  • (logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
  • Synonyms

    * (object) ball, globe, orb * (region of activity) area, domain, field, orbit, sector * (in geometry) (''topology ) * See celestial sphere * See celestial body

    Derived terms

    * blogosphere * sphere of influence * sphere of interest

    See also

    * ball (in topology ) * Mathworld article on the sphere *

    Verb

    (spher)
  • To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The glorious planet Sol / In noble eminence enthroned and sphered / Amidst the other.
  • To make round or spherical; to perfect.
  • (Tennyson)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    anglodom

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (-)
  • The realm, sphere, or influence of English or Anglo-American language or culture.
  • * 1902 , William Cowper Conant, Salvation :
  • [...] to the less congenial soil of Scotland, New and Old England, and is still nourished in spiritual hothouses, in forms at once captivating and perplexing to the practical pious mind of Anglodom .
  • * 1910 , Lafcadio Hearn, Elizabeth Bisland, The Japanese letters of Lafcadio Hearn :
  • Our civilization, with all its aspirations, is industrial and commercial — and there is no morality in that competition worth priding ourselves upon. It isn't Yankeedom more than it is Anglodom .
  • * 1987 , Adelaide M. Cromwell, Dynamics of the African/Afro-American connection :
  • [...] and where English-speaking Africans will wage the liberation struggle, the primacy of "anglodom " in the African world is likely to continue in the future.