orb

1. 1.

   move in an orbit

   “The moon orbits around the Earth”

   “The planets are orbiting the sun”

   “electrons orbit the nucleus”

   Synonymsorbitrevolve

   Broadercircle

   Narrowerretrograde

Other forms of orb

plural

orbs·

past tense

orbed·

present participle

orbing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orb

What does orb mean?

orb means "the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in orb?

orb has 1 syllable: orb. In IPA it is /ˈɔɹb/.

What is another word for orb?

Close synonyms include eyeball, ball, globe, orbit, revolve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orb a common word?

orb is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.