Meaning of Orb | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
   countable, uncountable
2. A blank window or panel.
3. Initialism of object request broker.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
4. Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
   countable, uncountable
5. Initialism of operations record book (used by RAF).
   abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
6. A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
   countable, uncountable
7. An orbit of an heavenly body
   countable, uncountable
8. The time period of an orbit
   countable, rare, uncountable
9. The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
   countable, poetic, uncountable
10. Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
    countable, poetic, uncountable
11. A sphere of action.
    countable, rare, uncountable
12. A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
    countable, uncountable
13. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
    countable, uncountable
14. A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
    countable, uncountable
15. Amount of deviation from the closest perfect aspect.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“You seem to me as Dian in her orb.”

“In orbs / Of circuit inexpressible they stood, / Orb within orb.”

“Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd / By our own quick'ning power, when fatal course / Had circl'd his full Orbe, the birth mature / Of this our native Heav'n, Ethereal Sons.”

“A drop serene hath quenched their orbs.”

“Painfully, he forced his hot eyelids to unclose, and his distended orbs sought for some object whereon to fix; they met the patch of grass, yet red with the blood of Walter Maynard.”

“The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled.”

“By what fatality the orb of my genius […] acts upon these men like the moon upon a certain description of patients, it would be irksome to inquire”

“But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe.”

“For example, an approaching transitioning aspect (i.e., for 120 degrees) is effective when it remains within 2 degrees of orb on either side of the perfect angle.”

“Astrologers' opinions vary on how many degrees of orb to allow for each aspect.”

“For example Mars has its orb 7 degrees to the Sun.”

“small blank windows or panels, for in later times such panels were called orbs, blind windows”

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