| Main Entry: | globe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | Earth, sphere |
Synonyms: |
apple, ball, balloon, big blue marble, map, orb, planet, rondure, round, spheroid, terrene, world |
| Main Entry: | bulb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | globular object |
Synonyms: |
ball, bunch, corm, corn, globe, head, knob, nodule, nub, protuberance, swelling, tuber, tumor |
| Notes: | tubers are different from bulbs and corms in that they have no basal plate or enveloping leaves |
| Main Entry: | circle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | orb, loop, round figure |
Synonyms: |
amphitheater, aureole, band, belt, bowl, bracelet, circlet, circuit, circumference, circus, cirque, coil, colure, compass, cordon, corona, crown, cycle, disc, disk, ecliptic, enclosure, equator, full turn, globe, halo, hoop, horizon, lap, meridian, orbit, parallel of latitude, perimeter, periphery, record, revolution, ring, ringlet, round, sphere, stadium, tire, turn, vortex, wheel, wreath, zodiac |
| Main Entry: | Earth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the world |
Synonyms: |
apple, big blue marble, cosmos, creation, dust*, globe, macrocosm, orb, planet, sphere, star, sublunary world, terra, terra firma, terrene, terrestrial sphere, universe, vale |
| Main Entry: | map |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chart of geographic area |
Synonyms: |
atlas, delineation, design, diagram, draft, drawing, elevation, globe, graph, ground plan, outline, picture, plan, plat, portrayal, print, projection, sketch, topographical depiction, tracing |
| Main Entry: | planet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celestial body orbiting a star |
Synonyms: |
apple, asteroid, earth, globe, heavenly body, luminous body, marble, orb*, planetoid, sphere, terrene, wandering star, world |
| Main Entry: | sphere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | globular object |
Synonyms: |
Earth, apple, ball, big blue marble, circle, globe, globule, orb, pellet, pill, planet, rondure, round |
| Main Entry: | gyre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | circle |
Synonyms: |
aureole, band, belt, bowl, bracelet, circlet, circuit, circumference, circus, cirque, coil, colure, compass, cordon, corona, crown*, cycle, disc, disk, ecliptic, enclosure, equator, full turn, globe, halo, hoop, horizon, lap, meridian, orbit, parallel of |
| Main Entry: | circle |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
annular, bead-like, bell-shaped, belted, bulbiform, bulbous, campaniform, campaniliform, campanulate, circinate, circular, circumrotatory, columnar, conic, conical, coniform, cycloidal, cyclostomate, cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid, egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, full-orbed, fungiform, gibbous, gimmal, globated, globose, globous, globular, guttiform, gyratory, knobbed, lobed, lumbriciform, molendinaceous, moniliform, obconic, obrotund, ooid, orbicular, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, ovopyriform, pear-shaped, penannular, peristrephic, pyriform, ringed, rotary, rotating, rotatory, rotund, round, rounded, spherical, spheroidal, stobic, strobic, strombuliform, trochiform, trochilic, vertiginous, vortical, vorticose
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