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territory
English
Etymology
Latin territorium from terra (“the earth”) and -torium (“place of occurrence”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?t????t??i/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?t???t(?)?i/
Noun
territory (countable and uncountable, plural territories)
- A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.
- (Canada) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
- (Australia) One of three of Australia's federated entities, located in the country's north and southeast, with fewer powers than a state and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory.
- A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
- (ecology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
- (sports and games) The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
- A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
- A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
- A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.
- An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
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orb
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)
- 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.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
- 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
- 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.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, "Of Superstition"
- (rare) The time period of an orbit
- (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
- (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
- (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.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, "Essay, Supplementary to the Preface"
- A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
- (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)
- (poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
- 1842, James Russell Lowell, sonnet
- a full-orbed sun
- 1842, James Russell Lowell, sonnet
- (poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
- (poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- The wheels were orbed with gold.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
Etymology 2
From Old French orb (“blind”), from Latin orbus (“destitute”).
Noun
orb (plural orbs)
- (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
- 1845, Robert Willis, The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral
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)
- blind
- (figuratively) ignorant
- (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)
- blind
Synonyms
- cec
Noun
orb m (uncountable)
- 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)
- 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)
- blind
Declension
Noun
orb m (plural orbi, feminine equivalent oarb?)
- blind man
Declension
Derived terms
- orbe?
- orbi
Related terms
- orbec?i
See also
- chior
- mut
- surd
- vedea
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