Orb

Definition: Orb

Orb

Noun

1. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.

2. Any object with a spherical shape; "a ball of fire".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "orb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Computing

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ORB

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Synonyms: Orb

Business

Part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career.

Circularity

Circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo.

Region

Noun: region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; reservation, pale; (limit); compartment, department; clearing.

World

Sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite.

Crosswords: Orb

Romanian (blind, crazy, dim, headlong, reckless, sightless, unenlightened, unseeing).

Uh, Paige, where did you orb in from (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, who monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

Maybe he kept an orb. (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

Cold hearted orb (Nights In White Satin; performing artist: The Moody Blues)

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References

• Orb Estates PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Cannon's Orb (reference)

• Crown, Orb & Sceptre: The True Stories of English Coronations (reference)

• Enchantment's Edge: The Orb and the Spectre (reference)

• Orb Weaver (reference)

• The Golden Orb (The Icewall Trilogy, Volume Two) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• H.G. Wells - Mystery of the Crystal Orb (reference)

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Music

• Orb & Sceptre [IMPORT] (reference)

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High Tech

• ADS Technologies Pyro ORB Drive (reference)

• Chipset & Video Card Round Orb Fan & Heatsink Cooler (reference)

• Startech Amd/intel Socket 370/a Round Orb Fan & Heatsink Cpu Cooler (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Researchers are just beginning to evaluate the potential for native insect predators—including spiders such as this long-jawed orb weaver—to hold agricultural pests in check. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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Economic History

Niger

Flag: Three horizontal bands--orange, white, and green from top to bottom with orange orb representing the sun centered on white band. (references)

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Expressions using "orb": imperial orb ♦ orb weaver ♦ orb web. Additional references.

Beginning with "orb": orb-arresting, orb-like, orb-shaped, orb-weaver, orb-web.

Ending with "orb": Sea-orb.

Containing "orb": Internet Inter-ORB Protocol.

Albanian

orbitë (circle, orbit, path), trup qiellor (body, celestial body, heavenly body), sferë (area, ball, domain, field, front, globe, globule, level, range, realm, region, scope, sphere, world), rruzull (ball, bowl, globe, nodule, sphere), kokërdhok (eyeball). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فلك (circuit, orbit, sphere), ‏كرة (ball, bowl, globe), ‏محجر العين (eyehole, orbit), ‏مدار (hub, orbit, path), ‏جرم سماوي (luminary, planet), ‏الكرة السلطانية, ‏دار (circle, come round, dwelling, go, gyrate, hand round, home, house, operate, orbit, pan, parlor, parlour, residence, revolve, rotate, round, screw, spin, spun, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, turn over, twiddle, twirl, up and about, wheel, whirl, wind), ‏دائرة (area, circle, compass, department, range, ring, round, section, service, set). (various references)

Bulgarian 

око (eye, optic, speculum, winker), държава (commonwealth, jurisdiction, polity, power, state), правя объл, златно кълбо с кръст отгоре, заоблям (round), земята (world), небесно тяло (globe, sphere), обикалям (circle, compass, get about, get round, itinerate, patrol, perambulate, ride, stooge around, stride, tour, travel, trip, walk), движа се в орбита (orbit), обсег (ambit, amplitude, area, coverage, extent, field, incidence, length, purview, radius, range, reach, scope, shot, spread, swing), сфера (area, demesne, globe, province, purview, range, reach, realm, region, scope, sphere), окръжавам (encircle, hedge, surround), очна ябълка (apple, eyeball, globe, orbit), орбита (circle, orbit, race, socket), глобус (globe), кръг (circle, cycle, disc, disk, range, ring, round, set, sphere), кълбо (ball, balloon, globe, puff, sphere), ставам объл, обхват (compass, coverage, extent, radius, range, scope, spread, sweep). (various references)

Czech

tìleso (body, ensemble), koule (ball, globe, round, sphere), bulva. (various references)

Farsi 

کروی شدن , گوی (Ball, Globe, Sphere), عالم (Erudite, Scientist, Universe, World), جسم کروی (Sphere), احاطه کردن (Beset, Box, Circle, Circuit, Corral, Encircle, Encompass, Envelop, Girdle, Hedge, Hem, Hoop, Impale, Pale, Ring, Skirt, Sphere), بدورمدارمعینی گشتن , بدورچیزی گشتن . (various references)

French

orbe, sphère, globuleux. (various references)

German

reichapfel, Kugel (ball, ball-bearing, bowl, bullet, globe, marble, pellet, scoop, shot, slug, sphere), Himmelskörper (celestial bodies, celestial body, heavenly body, luminaries, luminary, orbs), gestirn (heavenly body, star, stars), ball (ball, dance, let, prom). (various references)

Greek 

κύκλοσ (circle, cycle, round, roundel), κυκλώνω, σφαιροποιώ, σφαίρα (ball, bowl, bullet, globe, projectile, realm, shot, slug, sphere), υδρόγειοσ (globe, terraqueous). (various references)

Hebrew 

תחום (area, border, bound, boundary, compass, confines, domain, limit, mete, precinct, radius, range, realm, region, scope, sphere, sweep, territory, zone), עגול (circle, circular, disc, round, spherical), כדורי (globular, round, spherical), גלגל העין (eyeball), גלגל (cycle, helm, hoop, pulley, sphere, wheel), גרם השמים (body). (various references)

Hungarian

gömb (ball, sphere), égitest (celestial body, heavenly bodies, heavenly body, luminary, planet). (various references)

Indonesian

bulatan (rotundity, sphere). (various references)

Italian

sfera (ball, globe, round, sphere), palla (ball, ballot, bowl, bullet), globo (ball, ball-bearing, earth, globe), cerchio (circle, hoop, rim, ring, round). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

球体 (globe, sphere), オートマチック車 (autoload, auto-manipulator, automat, automatic camera for detecting and recording speeding vehicles, automatic repeat, automatic return, automatic reverse, automatic transmission car, automation, automaton, automobile, autoracing, auto-raise, awning, ball hit over the head of an outfielder, convertible, eau de toilette, exaggeration, exceeding, going beyond, hors d'oeuvre, oatmeal, OB, ode, old boy, open, open account, open caption, open course, open game, open golf, open sandwich, open side, open system, open toaster, open-air, open-end mortgage, opener, opening, opening game, opening number, orbiter, ornament, out-of-bounds, oven, oven toaster, over, over doctor, over fence, over par, overaction, overall, overblouse, overbooking, overborrowing, overcharge, overcoat, overdraft, overdrive, overdub, overflow, overhand, overhand pass, overhand throw, overhang, overhaul, overhaul net, overhead, overhead pass, overhead projector, overheat, overkill, overlap, overlay, overload, overloading, overloan, overnight, overnight bag, overnight photo service, overpace, overpresence, overproof, override, overrun, overshoes, overskill, overslide, overstep, overtime, overture, overweight, overwork, overwrite, overzone, owner, owner system, owner-driver, owner-pilot, self-locking, water of life). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅうたい (globe, laziness, neglect, old state of affairs, sphere), オーブ . (various references)

Manx

cruinnag (bulb, castor, crown of hat, globe, roundabout). (various references)

Pig Latin

orbay.(various references)

Portuguese

orbe (globe, sphere), olho (bud, eye, lamp, optic, peeper), mundo (earth, world), globo (balloon, globe, sphere), esfera (ball, circle, globe, radius, realm, region, round, sphere), corpo celeste (celestial body, heaven body, heavenly body). (various references)

Romanian

ochi (aim, cover, covet, eyes, Gemma, glade, glances, link, loop, mesh, optic, peeper, pink, pip, ring, scan, sight, stitch, suspect, take aim at, take sight, train, vortex), sferã cereascã, sferã (bowl, branch, circle, direction, domain, extension, field, globe, kingdom, line, parish, pill, province, purview, range, sphere), planetã (planet), luminãtor (Chandler, lamp, lampad, light, luminary), glob (bowl, earth, globe, sphere), domeniu de activitate (sphere of action, sphere of activity), corp ceresc (heavenly body, sphere), încinge (begin, engirt, enlace, gird, girdle, glow, parboil, seize, zone), încercui (besiege, by pass, encircle, encompass, enring, ensphere, hoop, rim, shut in, surround). (various references)

Russian 

сфера (area, orbit, purview, realm, sphere), сферическое тело, шар (ball, bowl, bowling ball, globe, sphere), глазное яблоко (ball of the eye, eyeball), орбита (orbit, race), небесное светило (celestial body, heavenly body). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oko (about, around, eye, peeper, round, toward), sfera (field, sphere), nebesko telo (heavenly body, sphere), delokrug (competence, competency, purview, sphere). (various references)

Spanish

orbe. (various references)

Swedish

sfär (ball, pale, province, sphere), riksäpple (globe), klot (ball, ball-bearing, bowl, cloth, globe, round, sateen). (various references)

Thai

วัตถุทรงกลม. (various references)

Turkish

küre şeklinde yapmak, küre (ball, balloon, globe, sphaero-, sphere), gözbebeği (apple of eye, apple of the eye, blue boy, dearest, pupil, pupilar, pupilary, pupilla, pupillar, pupillary), göz (blinker, cell, compartment, Cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cuddy, drawer, eye, eyehole, glim, ocular, ophthalmic, optic, optical, opto-, orbit, orbital, peeper, sight), gök cismi (celestial body, heavenly body), çevrelemek (begird, cincture, circle, encircle, enclose, environ, girdle, inclose, ring, ring in, surround, swathe, twine about, twine around, wreathe). (various references)

Ukrainian

сфера (ambit, area, circle, purview, range, realm, region, sphere, way, world), становище в суспільстві (establishment), сила-силенна (accumulation, basinful, crowd, ocean, orgy, zillion), куля (ball, bullet, globe, round, slug, sphere, wood), кільце (circle, circus, cirque, coil, grummet, hoop, ring, ringlet), королівська регалія, коло (anear, anigh, aside, by, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, near, on, ring, round, verge, wheel), глуха аркада, орбіта (orbit), око (eye, ocular, oculus, optic, winker), небесне світило, безліч (a lot of, abundance, army, array, bag, bagful, barrel, bushel, cumulus, dozens, host, infinite, lashings, legion, lots of, multitude, number, numbers, ocean, oodles, orgy, pack, plenty, reams, rout, ruck, scores, shoal, shower, ton, variety, vast, wealth, wilderness, world), диск (dial, disc, discus, disk, paten, turn-table). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hình cầu (globose, globous, sphere). (various references)

Welsh

rhod (ecliptic, wheel). (various references)

orbis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "orb": orbed, orbicular, orbicularly, orbiculate, orbier, orbiest, orbing, orbit, orbital, orbitals, orbited, orbiter, orbiters, orbiting, orbits, orbs, orby. (additional references)

Words ending with "orb": absorb, adsorb, chemisorb, desorb, forb, reabsorb, resorb, sorb. (additional references)

Words containing "orb": absorbabilities, absorbability, absorbable, absorbance, absorbances, absorbancies, absorbancy, absorbant, absorbants, absorbed, absorbencies, absorbency, absorbent, absorbents, absorber, absorbers, absorbing, absorbingly, absorbs, adsorbable, adsorbate, adsorbates, adsorbed, adsorbent, adsorbents, adsorber, adsorbers, adsorbing, adsorbs, antiscorbutic, antiscorbutics, ascorbate, ascorbates, ascorbic, borborygmi, borborygmus, chemisorbed, chemisorbing, chemisorbs, colorblind, colorblindness, colorblindnesses, colorbred, corban, corbans, corbeil, corbeille, corbeilles, corbeils, corbel, corbeled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Orb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brb, Erb, jorb, mrb, norb, norbu, oab, Obb, obc, obf, obj, Obra, Odb, Ogba, ohr, ojr, olb, olr, Onb, oob, Oqb, Oraba, orba, Orbe, orbi, orbro, oreb, Orebo, orh, ori, orib, orl, orm, oro, orp, orq, orra, orri, orro, orru, orry, orv, orx, orz, osb, osr, Oubc, pobr, robb, rorbu, Ufb, urb, urbo, vorb, yorb. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bro, rob.

-1 letter: bo, or.

+1 letter: boar, boor, bora, bore, born, bort, brio, broo, bros, brow, forb, orbs, orby, robe, robs, sorb.

+2 letters: abhor, abort, arbor, baron, bevor, board, boars, boart, bolar, boner, boors, boral, boras, borax, bored, borer, bores, boric, borne, boron, borts, borty, bortz, bourg, bourn, bower, boxer, boyar, bravo, brios, broad, brock, broil, broke, brome, bromo, bronc, brood, brook, broom, broos, brose, brosy, broth, brown, brows, burro, carbo, carob, cobra, corby, dobra, dobro, forbs, forby, labor, lobar, omber, ombre, orbed, orbit, oribi, probe, rebop, rhomb, robed, robes, robin, roble, robot, sober, sorbs, tabor, throb, turbo.