orbnoun詞源 1/ɔɹb/

• 1

  A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star

  • In the small orb of one particular tear.
  • Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled.
• 2

  Celestial sphere; 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

  architectureA structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere

• 4

  An orbit of an heavenly body

  • The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.
  • You seem to me as Dian in her orb.
• 5

  rareThe time period of an orbit

  • Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd / By our own quick'ning power, when fatal course / Had circl'd his full Orbe, the birth mature / Of this our native Heav'n, Ethereal Sons.
• 6

  The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity

  • A drop serene hath quenched their orbs.
  • Painfully, he forced his hot eyelids to unclose, and his distended orbs sought for some object whereon to fix; they met the patch of grass, yet red with the blood of Walter Maynard.
• 7

  Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel

  • The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled.
• 8

  rareA sphere of action.

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

orbverb詞源 1/ɔɹb/

• 1

  To form into an orb or circle.

  • Let each His adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his helm, gripe fast his orbed shield
  • a full-orbed sun
• 2

  To become round like an orb.

• 3

  To encircle; to surround; to enclose.

  • The wheels were orbed with gold.

orbnoun詞源 2/ɔɹb/

• 1

  architectureA blank window or panel.

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

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• object request broker
• operations record book