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orb

  [awrb]
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–noun
1. a sphere or globe: a Christmas tree hung with brightly colored orbs.
2. the eyeball or eye: He looks with blind orbs on an indifferent world.
3. any of the heavenly bodies, as the sun or moon: He lay on the grass, warmed by that orb of day, the sun.
4. a globe bearing a cross; the mound or emblem of sovereignty, esp. as part of the regalia of England.
5. Astrology. the number of degrees from exactness within which an aspect operates.
6. a circle or something circular.
7. Astronomy. (formerly) the orbit of a heavenly body.
8. the earth.
–verb (used with object)
9. to form into a circle or sphere.
10. Archaic. to encircle; enclose.
–verb (used without object)
11. to move in an orbit.
12. to form into an orb or globe; round out.
Origin:
1520–30; < L orbis circle, disk, orb

Related forms:
orbless, adjective
orblike, adjective
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Word Origin & History

orb 
c.1420 (implied in orbicular), "sphere, globe," also "emblem of sovereignty," from O.Fr. orbe (13c.), from L. orbem (nom. orbis) "circle, disk, ring," probably related to orbita "wheel track, rut," of unknown origin. Some suggest a connection with the root of orchid (q.v.). A three-dimensional extension of a word originally describing two-dimensional shapes. Astronomical sense is from 1526, in ref. to the hollow spheres that carried the planets and stars in the Ptolemaic system. Orb weaver spider is first recorded 1889.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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