globe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.
Inflected forms:
form: globes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: globes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: globing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: globed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: globed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
pos: noun
gloss: Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
pos: noun
examples: the globe of a lamp
gloss: The planet Earth.
pos: noun
examples: Already Cæſar
Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees
Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword:
Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting
To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes.
But whatever opinion or theory may be formed by any one, all agree that at some period or other this world has been destroyed by water, and that the proofs of this assertion are found in every part of the globe
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
gloss: A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
pos: noun
gloss: A light bulb.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
South-Africa
dated
examples: Don't ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them.
gloss: A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
pos: noun
examples: Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
gloss: A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
examples: Meanwhile, Jennifer Lopez went with her favorite silhouette: a robe-like dress, barely fastened solely in the areas you actually can’t reveal on the red carpet (remember that famous Versace number at the Grammys?). This year, she wore a silver and cream Zuhair Murad that showed off all of her best assets, which even caused Jeremy Renner to blurt out a comment about her “globes” on stage.
'I got my wig out and my globes,' she joked to E! News host Ryan Seacrest, adjusting her breasts.
gloss: A group.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
pos: noun
gloss: To become spherical.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make spherical.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: global
globular
Derived words: cyberglobe
englobe
eyeglobe
globe algae
globe amaranth
globe animalcule
globe artichoke
globe daisy
globe earther
globe-earther
globefish
globeflower
globeful
globehead
globeless
globelet
globe lightning
globelike
globe luxation
globemaker
globemaking
globe mallow
globe of compression
globe of the world
globe sight
globesity
globe sponge
globetard
globe thistle
globetrot
globe-trot
globe-trotter
globe trotter
globe-trotting
globewise
globie
globiferous
globocrat
globoid
globophobe
globophobic
globy
hemoglobin
inglobe
light globe
plasma globe
semiglobe
show globe
snowglobe
snow globe
time globe
Translations:
lang: Aramaic
word: ܐܣܦܝܪܐ
roman: ʾespejrā
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kürə
lang: Azerbaijani
word: کره
roman: kure
lang: Belarusian
word: шар
roman: šar
lang: Belarusian
word: сфе́ра
roman: sfjéra
lang: Belarusian
word: сфэ́ра
roman: sféra
lang: Bulgarian
word: кълбо́
roman: kǎlbó
lang: Bulgarian
word: сфе́ра
roman: sféra
lang: Esperanto
word: globo
lang: Finnish
word: pallo
lang: Greek
word: σφαίρα
roman: sfaíra
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σφαῖρα
roman: sphaîra
lang: Latin
word: globus
lang: Macedonian
word: топка
roman: topka
lang: Macedonian
word: сфера
roman: sfera
lang: Persian
word: گوی
roman: guy
lang: Iranian Persian
word: کُرِه
roman: kore
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Baul
lang: Polish
word: glob
lang: Portuguese
word: globo
lang: Portuguese
word: esfera
lang: Russian
word: сфе́ра
roman: sféra
lang: Russian
word: шар
roman: šar
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: кугла
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kugla
lang: Spanish
word: globo
lang: Swedish
word: glob
lang: Tagalog
word: hilihid
lang: Tajik
word: кура
roman: kura
lang: Ukrainian
word: ку́ля
roman: kúlja
lang: Ukrainian
word: сфе́ра
roman: sféra
lang: Zazaki
word: kure (diq)