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32 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• orb n. A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
• orb n. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and…
• orb n. (Architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere.
• orb n. An orbit of an heavenly body.
• orb n. (Rare) The time period of an orbit.
• orb n. (Poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity.
• orb n. (Poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel.
• orb n. (Rare) A sphere of action.
• orb n. A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power.
• orb n. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics)).
• orb n. (Military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
• orb v. (Poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
• orb v. (Poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
• orb v. (Poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
• orb n. (Architecture) A blank window or panel.
• ORB n. (Software engineering) Initialism of object request broker.
• ORB n. (Historical, military) Initialism of operations record book. (used by RAF)

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Aromanian
  • orb adj. (Figurative) ignorant.
  • orb adj. (Figurative) uncultivated, unrefined, uncivilized.
• Aromanian - Catalan - Romanian
  • orb adj. Blind.
• Catalan
  • orb n. A fungal disease of wheat and other cereals.
• Estonian
  • orb n. Orphan.
• Occitan
  • òrb adj. Blind.
• Romanian
  • orb n. Blind man.
  • Orb prop.n. A surname.

— English words, defined in French —

• orb n. (Astronomie) (Littéraire) Orbe.
• orb n. Orbe (globe royale).

— English words, defined in Italian —

• orb s. Sfera.
• orb s. Palla.
• orb s. (Araldica) mondo.

— In Dutch —

• orb n. (Fotografie) een optisch verschijnsel dat zich voordoet bij…

— In French —

• Orb n.prop.m. (Géographie) Fleuve côtier de l′Hérault, en France.

115 English words from 25 English definitions

action ancients and another Any appearing Architecture as␣for azure become blank Blind body book broker cavalry celestial celestial␣spheres cereals ceremonial circle circular conceived cruciger defence disease drawn drawn␣up encircle enclose enclosed engineering entity especially eye Figurative finial flash flash␣photography for form fungal globus globus␣cruciger heavenly heavenly␣body Historical ignorant imperial infantry Initialism into intransitive like luminous man military motif object object␣request␣broker of␣a of␣an one operations optics orb orbit Orphan other panel period photography planet Poetic power RAF Rare record record␣book repel represent request revolving round royal seen shape Software Software␣engineering soldiers sphere spheres spherical star structural such such␣as sun surname surround the time time␣period transitive translucent transparent uncivilized uncultivated unrefined used used␣to wheat wheel window within

8 English words from 7 foreign definitions

dat een France globe Hérault mondo Palla royale

14 foreign words from 7 foreign definitions

Araldica Astronomie bij côtier Fleuve Fotografie Géographie Littéraire optisch Orbe Sfera verschijnsel voordoet zich

162 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

orbs ORBs orby Orban ORBAT orbed orbic orbit Orbach orbate orbing orbita orbito- orbits orbity orblet or␣bust orbweb Orbachs Orbaugh orbical orbicle orbitae orbital orbitar orbited orbiter orbiton orbless orblets orblike orbwebs Orbánism orbatide orbation Orbelian orbicles orbicula orbicule orbifold orbiform Orbilian Orbilius orbiniid orbitals orbitary orbiters orbities orbiting orbitoid +112 words

1336 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

CORBA corbe Corbo corbs corby Corby forbs forby Forby Gorby jorbs Korba morbi morbs MORBs NORBA Norby Sorbo sorbs Sorbs Torba Worby Zorba zorbs adorbs blorbo Borboa Borbon Chorba corban corbel Corbet corbie Corbie Corbin Corbit Corbos Corbyn Dörbet dorbug forbad forban forbar Forbes forbid forbod Forbus forbuy forbye Forbys +1286 words

39 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

corb forb FoRB FORB jorb MORB Norb sorb Sorb zorb adorb inorb LSorb. Shorb USorb. absorb adsorb desorb disorb resorb sea␣orb biosorb euphorb presorb semi-orb coadsorb deadsorb reabsorb readsorb bioabsorb bioadsorb chemisorb chemosorb hemadsorb misabsorb preabsorb preadsorb zilascorb overabsorb

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

bro Bro bro.

11 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

bor Bor BOR Bor. bro Bro bro. OBR rob Rob ROB

91 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Abor Baro baro- Bero biro Biro boar Boer bohr Bohr boor bora Bora bora- bord bore borg Borg bork Bork borm born boro Boro -boro boro- bors BORs bort Bort Bour Bøur BRAO brio Brno broa brob brog broh Brom brom- broo bros Bros bro's bros. Bros. brow Brow bro-y +41 words

26 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

bo Bo BO B.O. Br BR Br. ob Ob OB ob- ob. Ob. or Or OR -or or- Or. RB r&b R&B R␣&␣B RO r/o R&O

71 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

arb ARB Arb. brb BRB CRB Erb 'erb FRB GRB IRB MRB NRB OAB obb ÖBB OCB ODB OEB OKB OMB OoB OOB ora Ora orc Orc ORC ord Ord ore Ore ORE öre øre Ore. orf Orf ORF org org. Org. Ori ork orl ORL ORM O/RM orn Oro oro- orp Orr ORR ors Ors ORs ORS ort ORT ORV ORW -ory OSB OTB PRB P.R.B. SRB TRB Trb. VRB

16 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

ob Ob OB ob- ob. Ob. or Or OR -or or- Or. RB r&b R&B R␣&␣B

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