sphere

sphere is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
2. noun. Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
3. noun. The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
4. noun. In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.
5. noun. The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
6. noun. Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
7. noun. Rank; order of society; social positions.
8. noun. An orbit, as of a star; a socket.
9. transitive verb. To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.
10. transitive verb. To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.
11. noun. any spherically shaped artifact
12. noun. a particular aspect of life or activity

    "he was helpless in an important sector of his life"

    Synonyms: sector

13. noun. the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

    Synonyms: empyrean, firmament, heavens, welkin

14. noun. the geographical area in which one nation is very influential
15. noun. a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center
16. noun. a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses)
17. noun. a particular environment or walk of life

    "his social sphere is limited"

    "it was a closed area of employment"

    Synonyms: area, arena, domain, field, orbit

Synonyms

sector, empyrean, firmament, heavens, welkin, area, arena, domain, field, orbit

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sphere:

herpes, hesper

Common word forms

sphered, spheres, sphering, sphereless

Words from these letters

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