The meaning of Globe

noun

A solid or hollow spherical or egg-shaped object that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game.

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A cricket ball

verb

(in cricket) a delivery of the ball by the bowler to the batsman.

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His half century came off only forty balls

noun

A formal social gathering for dancing.

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Anne danced with the captain at a fancy-dress ball

noun

The planet on which we live; the world.

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The diversity of life on earth

verb

Connect (an electrical device) with the ground.

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The front metal panels must be soundly earthed

noun

A small round particle of a substance; a drop.

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Globules of fat

noun

A small ball of something, especially a drop of liquid

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The disease is caused by globules of fat blocking the blood vessels.

noun

A spherical object or shape.

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A pale orb of hazy reddish light

noun

A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit round a star.

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Kepler showed that a planet moves round the sun in an elliptical orbit which has the sun in one of …

noun

An extremely large, round mass of matter, such as earth or mars, that moves in a circular path around the sun or another star

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Planetary scientists

adjective

Shaped like a circle or cylinder.

Usage examples:

She was seated at a small, round table

noun

A circular piece of something.

Usage examples:

Cut the pastry into rounds

adverb

So as to rotate or cause rotation; with circular motion.

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A plane circled round overhead

noun

A round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its centre.

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There's a particularly good 3d objects tool, which lets you create modelled spheres, cubes, rectang…

verb

Enclose in or as if in a sphere.

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Mourners, sphered by their dark garb

combining form

Denoting a structure or region of spherical form, especially a region round the earth.

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Ionosphere

noun

A sphere-like but not perfectly spherical body.

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A remarkable feature of oligoamine-condensed dna is the ability to assume condition-defined morphol…

noun

A small sphere.

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The impact record would be preserved in spherules - microscopic glass beads formed when droplets of…

noun

All existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos. the universe is believed to be at least 10 billion light years in diameter and contains a vast number of galaxies; it has been expanding since its creation in the big bang about 13 billion years ago.

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Among the many mysteries in the universe is the dark matter in galaxies and clusters.

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Everything that exists, esp. all physical matter, including all the stars and planets in space

noun

A collection of people, things, or companies that have similar characteristics or features

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We rank a broad universe of stocks using both value characteristics and growth characteristics., sa…

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The earth, together with all of its countries and peoples.

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He was doing his bit to save the world

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The planet on which human life has developed, esp. including all people and their ways of life

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People from all over the world will be attending the conference., the rapid growth of computers has…

noun

A particular area of activity

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Our world of work is changing rapidly., the world of advertising/the internet, the business/corpora…