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Definition: Obi |
ObiNoun1. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Obi" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a heart". |
Date "obi" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A belt is a flexible band made of either leather or a type of cloth worn around the waist, generally serving the purpose of supporting clothing items, in particular trousers, that would otherwise become too loose, and/or for the purpose of decoration. At one end of the belt is a belt buckle that is fashioned onto the other end of the belt. The other end of the belt contains several holes, into which a prong (which is part of the buckle) may be inserted to for the purpose of securing the belt. Sometimes there is a clamp system so that no holes are needed.
In western civilizations, males insert the belt through the pant loops in a counter-clockwise manner (if looking upon from above) and female tend to insert the belt through the pant loops in a clockwise manner.
A variant of the belt is the utility belt, which includes pockets for carrying items that the wearer needs for prompt use and loops to hang larger items. Police officers, soldiers and repair personnel are typical roles which use this kind of belt. The most famous fictional example is Batman's utility belt.
Sash
Another variant is the sash, which is a cloth belt designed to hold a robe together. A sash is usually tied about the waist.
The Japanese equivalent of a sash, which is used for a kimono or yukata, is called an obi. Obi are generally worn differently depending on the occasion.
Sashes are traditionally part of formal military attire, and some decorations, such as the Legion d'honneur are worn with a special sash.
In South and Latin America, the president's authority is indicated by a special Presidential sash.
Decorative sashes may pass from the shoulder to the hip rather than around the waist.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Belt."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ob (also Obi), a river of West Siberia, Russia, known to the Ostiaks as the As, Yag, Kolta and Yema; to the Samoyedes as the Kolta or Kuay; and to the Tatars as the Omar or Umar.It is formed 8 mi. southwest of Biysk in Altai region, by the confluence of the Biya and the Katun. Both these streams have their origin in the Altai (Sailughem) Mountains, the former issuing from Lake Teletskoye, the latter, 80 mi. long, bursting out of a glacier on Mount Byelukha. The Ob zigzags west and north until it reaches 55° N; thence it curves round to the NW, and again N, wheeling finally eastwards into the Gulf of Ob, a deep (600 mi.) bay of the Arctic Ocean.
The river splits up into more than one arm, especially after receiving the large river Irtysh (from the left) in 69° E. Other noteworthy tributaries are: on the right, the Tom, the Chulym, the Ket, the Tym and the Vakh; and, on the left, the Vasyugan, the Irtysh (with the Ishim and the Tobol) and the Sosva.
The navigable waters within its basin reach a total length of 9300 mi. By means of the Turn, an affluent of the Tobol, it secures connexion with the Ekaterinburg-Perm railway at Tyumen, and thus is linked on to the rivers Kama and Volga in the heart of Russia. Its own length is 3700 km (2260 mi.), and the area of its basin 2,600,000 km² (1,125,200 sq. mi.).
The combined Ob-Irtysh system, the longest river system of Asia, is about 5410 km (about 3362 mi.) long. A system of canals, utilizing the Ket river, 560 mi. long in all, connects the Ob with the Yenisei.
The Ob is ice-bound at Barnaul from early in November to near the end of April, and at Obdursk, 100 mi. above its mouth, from the end of October to the beginning of June. Its middle reaches have been navigated by steamboats since 1845.
Cities along the river include:
Initial text from a 1911 Encyclopedia. Please update as needed.
- Akademgorodok
- Novosibirsk
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ob River."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
OBI | English | Open Buying on the Internet | N/A |
OBI | French | Office du baccalauréat international | N/A |
OBI | Italian | Ordinanza del 19 ottobre 1977 relativa ai brevetti d'invenzione;Ordinanza sui brevetti | Law, Engineering & Technology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ObiSynonym: obeah (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sorcery | Noun: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demonology, demonomy, demonship; diablerie, bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism, vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force; electrobiology, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Obi |
| English words defined with "obi": Obbe, Oby. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Obi" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (obi). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've been waiting for you, Obi Wan. We meet again at last (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Obi (1991) | |
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Economic History | Poland | The fastest growing chains are OBI, IKEA, Stinnes, Nomi Dom i Ogrod, TTW Dom i Ogrod, Castorama, Praktiker, Leroy Merlin and Bricomarche. (references) |
Czech Rep | Swedish IKEA, British TESCO, and German OBI and Baumax, among others, operate in multiple locations in Prague, and are rapidly expanding nationwide. (references) | |
Poland | The top ten retailers in Poland are foreign, and include such chains as Macro, Geant Casino, Auchan, Jeronimo Martins, IKEA , Carrefour, HIT , Castorama , OBI , Leclerc and Tesco . (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "obi" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Obi | Last name | 130 | 55,170 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "obi": obi-wan error. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "obi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | фетиш (fetich, fetiche, fetish, medicine), широк копринен пояс, магия (bewitchment, black art, cantrip, charm, conjuration, enchantment, hex, magic, necromancy, theurgy, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry). (various references) | |
Greek | μαγεία (bewitchment, fascination, magic, mystique, philtre, sorcery, theurgy, witchcraft, witchery, witching, wizardry), ζώνη ιαπωνίδων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | selyemöv (sash). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 三尺帯 (belt, cloth girdle, waistband), 帯 (band). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おび, さ"じゃくおび (belt, cloth girdle, waistband). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obiay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cinta de seda. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vradžbina (charm, pishogue, sorcery, spell, theurgy). (various references) | |
Swedish | obi. (various references) | |
Turkish | zenci büyüsü (obe, obeah, voodoo). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "obi": obia, obias, obiism, obiisms, obis, obit, obits, obituaries, obituarist, obituarists, obituary. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "obi": colobi, dhobi. (additional references) | |
Words containing "obi": acrophobia, acrophobias, aerobia, aerobic, aerobically, aerobicize, aerobicized, aerobicizes, aerobicizing, aerobics, aerobiological, aerobiologies, aerobiology, aerobioses, aerobiosis, aerobium, agoraphobia, agoraphobias, agoraphobic, agoraphobics, ailurophobia, ailurophobias, airmobile, anaerobic, anaerobically, anaerobioses, anaerobiosis, antimicrobial, antimicrobials, astrobiologies, astrobiologist, astrobiologists, astrobiology, autobiographer, autobiographers, autobiographic, autobiographical, autobiographically, autobiographies, autobiography, automobile, automobiled, automobiles, automobiling, automobilist, automobilists, automobilities, automobility, bloodmobile, bloodmobiles, boobing. (additional references) | |
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"Obi" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abbi, abi, Abpi, aoba, boai, Bohi, boi, boii, boix, bopi, cbi, cobi, dobi, Ebi, fobi, ibi, iby, jobi, Kobi, mobi, Nobi, oai, oba, Obad, obaid, Obb, Obbia, obbo, obby, obc, obd, obea, obee, Obel, obev, obf, obg, obia, obic, obid, obie, obii, obin, Obina, obio, obiz, obj, obl, obli, obliv, obn, obob, Obod, oboh, obol, obt, obu, Obukw, obvi, Oby, oci, Odb, odi, Oei, ofi, ofio, Ogba, ogi, ogio, ohi, oi, oih, oii, oij, oiv, oix, oiz, oji, oki, Olbiil, Olbil, Olby, oli, ombi, ombu, omi, Onb, onbo, oni, ooi, opi, Oqb, orba, orbi, orbie, orbil, ori, osi, osii, oti, Oubc, oui, ovi, owi, Oxi, oyi, Ozi, pbi, Tobbi, tobi, toib, uba, ube, ubi, Ubik, ubo, ubti, yobe, zobe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bio. | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-o" | |
-1 letter: bi, bo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-o" | |
+1 letter: bios, boil, brio, obia, obis, obit. | |
+2 letters: aboil, bigot, bijou, bilbo, bimbo, bingo, biome, biont, biota, bipod, bison, bocci, bogie, boils, boing, boite, boric, bovid, brios, broil, cibol, cobia, dhobi, dobie, limbo, obeli, obias, obits, oboli, orbit, oribi, robin, zombi. | |
+3 letters: akimbo, albino, bagnio, bailor, barrio, basion, bicorn, bicron, bifold, biform, bigots, bijous, bijoux, bilboa, bilbos, billon, billow, bimbos, bingos, binocs, biogas, biogen, biomes, bionic, bionts, biopic, biopsy, biotas, biotic, biotin, bipods, bishop, bisons, bistro, bizone, blooie, bobbin, boccia, boccie, boccis, bodice, bodied, bodies, bodily, boding, bodkin, boffin, bogies, boiled, boiler, boites, boleti, bolide, bollix, bonaci, bonier, boning, bonita, bonito, bonnie, bonsai, boogie, booing, bookie, bootie, boride, boring, borzoi, bougie, bovids, bovine, bowfin, bowing, boxier, boxing, boyish, briony, broils, bromic, bromid, bromin, bunion, ceboid, cibols, cobias, colobi, corbie, cuboid, dhobis, diobol, dobbin, dobies, emboli, foible, forbid, gabion, gibbon, gibson, globin, gobies, goblin, hobbit, icebox, imbody, inborn, intomb, isobar, kibosh, libido, limbos, mobile, morbid, niobic, obelia, obiism, oblige, oboist, obtain, orbier, orbing, orbits, oribis, ourebi, outbid, ovibos, phobia, phobic, probit, reboil, rhombi, ribbon, ribose, robbin, robing, robins, rubigo, skibob, sobeit, sorbic, subito, tobies, upboil, vibrio, zombie, zombis. | |
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