orb

orb is a 3-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A blank window or panel. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A blank window or panel.
2. noun. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
5. noun. A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
6. noun. The eye, as luminous and spherical.
7. noun. A revolving circular body; a wheel.
8. noun. A sphere of action.
9. noun. Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
10. noun. A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
11. transitive verb. To form into an orb or circle.
12. transitive verb. To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
13. intransitive verb. To become round like an orb.
14. noun. the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye

    Synonyms: eyeball

15. noun. an object with a spherical shape

    "a ball of fire"

    Synonyms: ball, globe

16. verb. move in an orbit

    "The moon orbits around the Earth"

    "The planets are orbiting the sun"

    Synonyms: orbit, revolve

Synonyms

eyeball, ball, globe, orbit, revolve

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in orb:

bor, bro, rob

Common word forms

orbs, orbed, orbing, orbity, orbless

Words from these letters

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