different between lobe vs obe

English

Etymology

From Middle French lobe in early 16th century, from New Latin lobus (“a lobe”), from Ancient Greek ????? (lobós, “the lobe of the ear or of the liver, the pod of a leguminous plant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??b/
• Rhymes: -??b

Noun

lobe (plural lobes)

1. Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from 19th c.]

   A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.

   • 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 19,

     He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.

2. (anatomy) A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. [from 16th c.]
3. (figure skating) A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it. [from 20th c.]

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• earlobe
• lobe-finned
• lobe-shaped
• trilobite

Related terms

• lobotomy

Translations

See also

• (brain lobes) brain lobe; frontal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe ^{(Category: en:Brain)}

Further reading

• lobe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lobe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Bole, Lebo, Loeb, bole

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?b/

Etymology 1

From Middle French, from Ancient Greek ????? (lobós).

Noun

lobe m (plural lobes)

1. (anatomy, botany) lobe (of an organ)

References

• “lobe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology 2

Verb

lobe

1. inflection of lober:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lobe

1. inflection of loben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Latin

Noun

lobe

1. vocative singular of lobus

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

obe (plural obes)

1. (historical) A particular subdivision of ancient Laconia.

Etymology 2

Noun

obe (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of obeah.

Anagrams

• BEO, BOE, BoE, Boe, EOB, OEB

Champenois

Noun

obe

1. (Auve) tree

References

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne?^[2] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 110

Nzadi

Adjective

obé (plural obé)

1. bad

   Antonym: odz??

Further reading

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, ?ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): ?bje

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ôbe/
• Hyphenation: o?be

Noun

?be f (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. both (for feminine pairs)

Related terms

• ?ba (for masculine and neuter pairs)

Volapük

Pronoun

obe

1. (dative singular of ob) to me