Globe
[gləʊb] or [ɡlob]
Definition
(noun.) a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented.
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Definition
(n.) A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.
(n.) Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.
(n.) The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.
(n.) A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.
(n.) A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square.
(v. t.) To gather or form into a globe.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sphere, ball, orb.[2]. Earth, terraqueous globe, terrestrial ball.
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Definition
n. a ball: a round body a sphere: the earth: a sphere representing the earth (terrestrial globe) or the heavens (celestial globe): (obs.) a group.—v.t. to form in a circle.—ns. Globe′-fish one of a genus of fishes found in warm seas remarkable for its power of swelling out its body to a globular form; Globe′-flow′er a small paléŽrctic genus of plants of the order Ranunculace with a globe of large showy sepals enclosing the small inconspicuous linear petals; Globe′-trot′ter one who travels for pleasure around the world; Globe′-trot′ting; Glō′bin a proteid constituent of red blood corpuscles.—adjs. Glōbose′ Glōb′ous resembling a globe.—n. (Milt.) a globe.—n. Glōbos′ity.—adjs. Glob′ūlar Glob′ūlous Glob′ūlose like a globe: spherical.—n. Globūlar′ity.—adv. Glob′ūlarly.—ns. Glob′ūle a little globe or round particle—also Glob′ūlet; Glob′ūlin Glob′ūline a substance closely allied to albumen which forms the main ingredient of the blood globules and also occurs in the crystalline lens of the eye; Glob′ūlite the name given by Vogelsang to minute crystallites of spherical drop-like form.—adj. Glōb′y (Milt.) round.
Editor: Miriam
Unserious Contents or Definition
An all-round proposition which has furnished its shareholders a living for several thousand years, though its stock is two-thirds water.
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Examples
- Wonder was expressed over the blazing horseshoe that glowed within a pear-shaped globe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He came close to her, and stood touching her, looking with her at the primrose-shining globe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Steam admitted into the globe from the cauldron escaped through the side pipes, and its pressure on these pipes caused the globe to rotate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He alleges a visible decrease of the human species which has never been made good in some of the fairest countries of the globe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Beside her was a mahogany stand bearing a cast bronze lamp with an engraved globe, over which a green paper shade had been balanced. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But you must have three weeks to do India properly, her husband conceded, anxious to have it understood that he was no frivolous globe-trotter. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We had tried to keep it out of the papers, but there was some rumor in the GLOBE last night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Captain Marryatt writes: I do not know a spot on the globe which so much astonishes and delights upon first arrival as Madeira. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Its hope is that some man living at one place on the globe in a particular epoch will, through the miracle of genius, be able to generalize his experience for all time and all space. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and globes, and needlework, and everything? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In Siam these fish are kept in glass globes, as we keep goldfish, for the purpose of fighting, and an extravagant amount of gambling takes place about the result of the fights. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Anaxagoras, greatly daring, thought the sun and moon were vast globes, so vast that the sun was probably as big as all the Peloponnesus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While glass is in the soft, yielding, pliable state, it is molded into dishes, bottles, and other useful objects, such as lamp shades, globes, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the use of the globes both are proficients. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Before the throne, was a large table filled with globes and spheres, and mathematical instruments of all kinds. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Fish globes magnify the fish that swim within. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I saw his astronomical instruments put to strange uses, his globes defaced, his papers covered with abstruse calculations destroyed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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