different between orl vs orb

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ôrl, IPA^(key): /??l/
• (US) enPR: ôrl, IPA^(key): /??l/
• Homophone: orle

Etymology 1

Metathetic variant of olr, itself a variant of alr, itself a contraction of aller, itself a form of alder closer to the original Old English form of alor, aler (the d was a phonetic addition in Middle English); compare the English oryelle, as well as the Old High German erila, the Middle High German erle, and the Modern German Erle.

Noun

orl (plural orls)

1. (in some British dialects, now rare) An alder tree.
2. (obsolete, rare, elliptically) orl fly

Derived terms

• orl fly (angling)

References

• “Orl” listed on page 205 of volume VII (O–P) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1909]
  Orl, dial. form of olr, alr, Alder, the tree. [¶] [c 1440, see Oryelle.] 1747 R. Bowlker Art of Angling 27 This Hedge ought to be made chiefly of Orls. 1804 Duncumb Hist. Hereford I. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Orl, the wood alder. [¶] Hence Orl-fly, ellipt. Orl, the alder-fly, Sialis lutarius, used by anglers. [¶] 1747 R. Bowlker Art of Angling 69 The Orle Fly..is the best Fly to Fish with after the May Flyes are gone. 1787 Best Angling (ed. 2) 115 The Orl fly comes on the latter end of May and continues on till the latter end of June. 1875 W. Houghton Brit. Insects 64 The well-known orl or Alder-fly (Sialis lutarius).
• “orl” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
• “orl, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (third edition, September 2004)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation spelling.

Adverb

orl (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of all.

   That’s orl right.

Anagrams

• LRO, Lor, lor

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