Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A blank window or panel.
- 2noun
A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
- 5noun
A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
- 6noun
The eye, as luminous and spherical.
- 7noun
A revolving circular body; a wheel.
- 8noun
A sphere of action.
- 9noun
Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
- 10noun
A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
- 11transitive verb
To form into an orb or circle.
- 12transitive verb
To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
- 13intransitive verb
To become round like an orb.
- 14noun
the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
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- 15noun
an object with a spherical shape
"a ball of fire"
- 16verb
move in an orbit
"The moon orbits around the Earth"
"The planets are orbiting the sun"
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