Territory vs Orb - What's the difference?
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A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
(Canada) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by Act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
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, title= (zoology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
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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
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(poetic) to become round like an orb
Territory is a related term of orb.
As a noun territory
is a large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.As an initialism orb is
(software engineering).territory
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Noun
(territories)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory . Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.}}
- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
Derived terms
* come with the territory * territorial * Territorial Army * territoriality * territorially * territorial watersorb
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.