English Dictionary

orb

IPA（発音記号）

/ɔɹb/

名詞

稀用 詩語

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

日本語の意味

球体、球 / （特に天体に関して）太陽、惑星、恒星などの天体

The ancient orb glowed softly on the pedestal, casting pale light across the chamber.

古代の球体が台座の上で柔らかく光り、部屋中に淡い光を投げかけた。

意味（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.

意味（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

意味（3）

(architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere

意味（4）

An orbit of an heavenly body

The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.

意味（5）

(rare) The 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.

意味（6）

(poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity

A drop serene hath quenched their orbs.

意味（7）

(poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel

The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled.

意味（8）

(rare) A 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

意味（9）

A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power

意味（10）

A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))

意味（11）

(military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.

orbs （ plural ）