Orb vs. Orf — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Orb and Orf
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Orb
A sphere or spherical object.
Orf
(obsolete) Cattle.
Orb
A celestial body, such as the sun or moon.
Orf
(medicine) An exanthemous disease caused by a parapox virus, occurring primarily in sheep and goats but also capable of infecting humans.
Orb
(Archaic) The earth.
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Orf
Alternative form of orfe(the fish)
Orb
One of a series of concentric transparent spheres thought by ancient and medieval astronomers to rotate about the earth and carry the celestial bodies.
Orf
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Orb
A globe surmounted by a cross, used as a symbol of monarchial power and justice.
Orf
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Orb
An eye or eyeball.
Orf
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Orb
(Archaic) Something of circular form; a circle or orbit.
Orf
A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id.
Orb
To shape into a circle or sphere.
Orb
(Archaic) To encircle; enclose.
Orb
To move in an orbit.
Orb
A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
Orb
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
Orb
(architectural element) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
Orb
An orbit of an heavenly body
Orb
(rare) The time period of an orbit
Orb
(poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
Orb
(poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
Orb
(rare) A sphere of action.
Orb
A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
Orb
A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
Orb
(military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
Orb
(architecture) A blank window or panel.
Orb
To form into an orb or circle.
Orb
To become round like an orb.
Orb
To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
Orb
A blank window or panel.
Orb
A spherical body; a globe; 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.
Orb
One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
Orb
A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
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.
In orbsOf circuit inexpressible they stood,Orb within orb.
Orb
A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
Orb
The eye, as luminous and spherical.
A drop serene hath quenched their orbs.
Orb
A revolving circular body; a wheel.
The orbsOf his fierce chariot rolled.
Orb
A sphere of action or influence.
But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe.
Orb
Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See 1st Mound.
Orb
A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
Orb
To form into an orb or circle.
Orb
To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
The wheels were orbed with gold.
Orb
To become round like an orb.
And orb into the perfect star.
Orb
The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
Orb
An object with a spherical shape;
A ball of fire
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