different between orb vs orbit

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

Alternative forms

• (eye socket) orbita

Etymology

From Middle English orbite, orbita, from Latin orbita (“course, track, impression, mark”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.b?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.b?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?t

Noun

orbit (countable and uncountable, plural orbits)

1. (astronomy) A circular or elliptical path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.

   Hyponyms: Clarke orbit, graveyard orbit, Hohmann transfer orbit, last photon orbit, Lissajous orbit, low Earth orbit, lunar orbit, Lyapunov orbit, Molniya orbit, osculating orbit, parking orbit, subsynchronous orbit, synchronous orbit

   1. One complete circuit round an orbited body.

   2. (uncountable) The state of moving in an orbit.
   3. (physics) The path of an electron around an atomic nucleus.
   4. (pinball) A path for the ball on the outer edge of the playfield, usually connected so that the ball entering in one end will come out of the other.
2. A sphere of influence; an area or extent of activity, interest, or control.

3. (anatomy) The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.

   Synonyms: eye socket, cranial orbit

   1. (zoology) The area around the eye of a bird or other animal.
4. (mathematics) A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
5. (geometry, group theory) The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members of a specified group of transformations that act on X.
6. (informal) A state of increased excitement, activity, or anger.

Usage notes

When referring to astronomical orbits, "in orbit" and "on orbit" have somewhat different meanings. In general, a body is said to be "in orbit" if it is in freefall going around another body; while something happens "on orbit" if it occurs aboard an orbiting spacecraft. Thus one might say, "The space capsule is in orbit, and the astronauts inside are performing experiments on orbit."

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

orbit (third-person singular simple present orbits, present participle orbiting, simple past and past participle orbited)

1. (astronomy) To circle or revolve around another object.
   1. To place an object (e.g. a satellite) into an orbit around a planet.

      Synonym: launch

2. To move around the general vicinity of something.

   Synonyms: circumambulate, tag along

3. To move in a circle.
4. (transitive) To center (around).
5. (transitive, dating) To continue to follow and/or engage with someone via social media after breaking up with them.

Antonyms

• deorbit

Translations

References

• “orbit”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “orbit”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

See also

• satellite

Anagrams

• tribo-

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [or?bit]

Verb

orbit

1. past participle of orbi