different between orb vs dust

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /o?b/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??(?)b/
• Rhymes: -??(r)b

Etymology 1

From Middle English orbe, from Old French orbe, from Latin orbis (“circle, orb”). Compare orbit.

Noun

orb (plural orbs)

1. A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint

     In the small orb of one particular tear.
2. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
3. An orbit of an heavenly body
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, "Of Superstition"

     The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.
4. (rare) The time period of an orbit
5. (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
6. (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
7. (rare) A sphere of action.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, "Essay, Supplementary to the Preface"

     By what fatality the orb of my genius […] acts upon these men like the moon upon a certain description of patients, it would be irksome to inquire

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre Act 1 Scene 2

     But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe.

8. A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power
9. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
10. (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.

Synonyms

• (spherical body): ball, globe, sphere
• (circle): circle, orbit
• (a period of time): See Thesaurus:year
• (an eye): See Thesaurus:eye
• (revolving circular body): roller, wheel
• (sphere of action): area, domain, field, province
• (monarch's ceremonial sphere): globe, globus cruciger, mound, orb
• (military formation): globe

Translations

Verb

orb (third-person singular simple present orbs, present participle orbing, simple past and past participle orbed)

1. (poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
   • 1842, James Russell Lowell, sonnet

     a full-orbed sun
2. (poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
3. (poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
   • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses

     The wheels were orbed with gold.

Etymology 2

From Old French orb (“blind”), from Latin orbus (“destitute”).

Noun

orb (plural orbs)

1. (architecture) A blank window or panel.
   • 1845, Robert Willis, The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral

     small blank windows or panels, for in later times such panels were called orbs, blind windows

References

• orb in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• BOR, Bor, Bor., ROB, Rob, bor, bro, bro., rob

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• orbu

Etymology

From Latin orbus. Compare Romanian orb.

Adjective

orb m (feminine singular orbe, masculine plural orghi, feminine plural orbi)

1. blind
2. (figuratively) ignorant
3. (figuratively) uncultivated, unrefined, uncivilized

Related terms

• urbari
• urbiatse

See also

• chior

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan òrb), from Latin orbus (ab ocul?s) (literally “deprived of eyes”) (compare Italian orbo, Romanian orb, French aveugle from the other half of the idiom), from Proto-Indo-European *h?órb?os (“orphan”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /???p/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /??rp/

Adjective

orb (feminine orba, masculine plural orbs, feminine plural orbes)

1. blind

Synonyms

• cec

Noun

orb m (uncountable)

1. a fungal disease of wheat and other cereals

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish orpo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *orpa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *arbha-s. Cognate with Hungarian árva.

Noun

orb (genitive orvu, partitive orbu)

1. orphan

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin orbus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?órb?os (“orphan”). Compare Italian orbo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /orb/

Adjective

orb m or n (feminine singular oarb?, masculine plural orbi, feminine and neuter plural oarbe)

1. blind

Declension

Noun

orb m (plural orbi, feminine equivalent oarb?)

1. blind man

Declension

Derived terms

• orbe?
• orbi

Related terms

• orbec?i

See also

• chior
• mut
• surd
• vedea

English

Etymology

From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English d?st (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dust? (“dust”) and *dunst? (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to smoke, raise dust”).Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin f?mus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: dost

Noun

dust (countable and uncountable, plural dusts)

1. Fine particles
   1. (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
   2. (astronomy, uncountable) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
   3. (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
2. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
   • 2010, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England (page 150)

     […] once they start school, I mean you can do a room out one day, the next day it only needs a dust, doesn't it?

3. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.

   • For now shall I sleep in the dust.

4. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites

     And you may carve a shrine about my dust.

5. (figuratively) Something worthless.
6. (figuratively) A low or mean condition.

   • [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.

7. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
8. (colloquial) A disturbance or uproar.

   to raise, or kick up, a dust

9. (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dust (third-person singular simple present dusts, present participle dusting, simple past and past participle dusted)

1. (transitive) To remove dust from.

2. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.

3. (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
4. (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.

5. (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 75:

     He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I'd like to talk to you a little, soldier.’

6. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
7. To kill or severely disable.

Derived terms

• dust bunny
• dust down
• duster
• dust off

Translations

See also

• vacuum cleaner

Anagrams

• UDTs, duts, stud

Faroese

Noun

dust n (genitive singular dusts, uncountable)

1. dust

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German dûst, from Proto-Germanic *dunst?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

dust n (genitive singular dusts, no plural)

1. dust

   Synonyms: ryk, duft

Declension

Middle English

Alternative forms

• doust, duste, doste, dyste

Etymology

Forms with a long vowel are from Old English d?st, from Proto-Germanic *dunst?. Forms with a short vowel are from Old English *dust, from Proto-Germanic *dust?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dust/, /du?st/

Noun

dust (uncountable)

1. dust, powder
2. dirt, grit
3. (figuratively) iota, modicum

Related terms

• dusten (rare)
• dusty

Descendants

• English: dust
• Scots: dust, dist

References

• “d??st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Back-formation of dustet, from Old Norse dust (dust particle)

Noun

dust m (definite singular dusten, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)

1. (derogatory) dork, moron, fool

Synonyms

• dustemikkel
• tomsing
• tosk
• tufs
• støv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dust.

Noun

dust f or m (definite singular dusta or dusten, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)

1. dust (fine, dry particles)

References

• “dust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dust (dust particle), compare with dustete

Noun

dust m (definite singular dusten, indefinite plural dustar, definite plural dustane)

1. (derogatory) dork, moron, fool

Synonyms

• dustemikkel
• tomsing
• tosk
• tufs
• støv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dust.

Noun

dust f (definite singular dusta, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)

1. dust (fine, dry particles)

References

• “dust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dunst? (“dust, vapour”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ew- (“vapour, smoke”). Akin to Hindi ???? (dhu??, “smoke”), Middle Dutch dost, donst, duust (Dutch dons, duist), Old High German tunst, dunst (German Dunst), Low German dust, Icelandic dust, Norwegian dust, Danish dyst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?st/

Noun

d?st n

1. dust; powder; mill dust

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: dust, doust
  • English: dust
  • Scots: dust, dist

Old Norse

Noun

dust n

1. dust particle

Descendants

• Icelandic: dust
• Faroese: dust
• Norwegian: dust
• Swedish: dust
• Danish: dyst

References

• dust in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

dust m (genitive singular dust, no plural)

1. dust

Usage notes

• Also used figuratively for corpse.

Synonyms

• duslach
• stùr

Derived terms

• dustach
• dustaig
• dustair

Zazaki

Noun

dust c

1. side; one half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
2. to level

Derived terms

• dustê
• dusta