Word Finder - globe

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Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.

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the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp

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The planet Earth.

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A spherical model of Earth or any planet.

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A light bulb.

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A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.

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(chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.

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A group.

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To become spherical.

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To make spherical.

He's been globe trotting for the last three weeks.

The size of a globe is usually given in terms of its diameter.

Sir John Murray deduced the mean height of the land of the globe as about 2250 ft.

The zoology of Australia and Tasmania presents a very conspicuous point of difference from that of other regions of the globe, in the prevalence of non-placental mammalia.

In 1653 he had made the astonishing proposal to the Dutch that England and Holland should divide the habitable globe outside Europe between them, that all states maintaining the Inquisition should be treated as enemies by both the proposed allies, and that the latter "should send missionaries to all peoples willing to receive them, to inculcate the truth of Jesus Christ and the Holy Gospel."

These accessories are indispensable if it be proposed to solve the problems usually propounded in books on the " use of the globes," but can be dispensed with if the globe is to serve only as a map of the world.

The globe itself rotates within a metallic meridian to which its axis is attached.

Once there were eleven tadpoles in a glass globe set in a window full of plants.

The Mediterranean is all that remains of a great ocean which at an early geological epoch, before the formation of the Atlantic, encircled half the globe along a line of latitude.

The first book, of fourteen short chapters, is concerned with the general properties of the globe; the remaining six books treat in considerable detail of the countries of Europe and of the other continents.

In all other cases recourse must be had to a map, a globe or mathematical formula.

Finally the globe is covered with the paper gores upon which the map is drawn.

As we were passing a large globe a short time after she had written the questions, she stopped before it and asked, "Who made the REAL world?"

I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body.

We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live.

Arrested Development received numerous award nominations and won six Emmy awards and a Golden Globe award during its run.

The tidal wave of the Southern Ocean, which sweeps uninterruptedly round the globe from east to west, generates a secondary wave between Africa and South America, which travels north at a rate dependent only on the depth of the ocean.

A large number of articles by his hand appeared in Le Producteur, L'Organisateur, Le Globe, and other periodicals.

As originated by Regnault, it consisted in filling a large glass globe with the gas by alternately exhausting with an air-pump and admitting the pure and dry gas.

Two species of the former family inhabit our islands, but the Belostomatidae are found only in the warmer regions of the globe; some of them, attaining a length of 4 to 5 in., are giants among insects.

However, before the conquest, in no other part of the globe did language tally so nearly with kinship. Marriage was exogamic among clans in a tribe, but practically, though not wholly, endogamic as between tribes, wife and slave capture being common in places.

Another brief biography of great merit is attached to the Globe edition of Cowper's Works.

Millions of children across the globe are enjoying the magical adventures of Harry Potter.

The truth is we are decadent and other countries across the globe have more fizz.

There is also a celestial globe in the background.

He won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award posthumously for this role.

Bono has won many awards with U2, including 22 Grammy awards and a Golden Globe for best original song.

Knight. A few months later at the 2006 Golden Globe Awards, Washington denied ever making the comment and eventually the dust settled -- or so everyone thought.

She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance during the second season finale, as well as an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

She seems to recognize the responsibility of being in the position she is in, as evidenced by her words when she accepted her Golden Globe award.

Since 1997, Damon has been nominated for over 50 official industry awards, 15 of which he won, including his shared Best Screenplay Oscar and a Golden Globe for his work as an actor in Good Will Hunting.

Hopefully, many more celebrities will follow their lead, because there will, unfortunately, never be a shortage of people in need across the globe.

He has been nominated for Golden Globe, Emmy and American Comedy awards; Ferrell won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Performer in a TV Special (for Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2000).

Pictures of gorgeous female celebrities without makeup is (admit it ladies) a guilty pleasure for non-celeb ladies around the globe.

These comments were, of course, "overheard" by the press and subsequently published in newspapers and tabloids around the globe.

With her fresh good looks and lovely voice, she has won fans all over the globe.

Lowe earned a Golden Globe nomination for this portrayal.

The New Zealand Subregion, considered by Professors Newton and Huxley and various other zoogeographers as deserving the rank of a region, is, and to all appearance has long been, more isolated than any other portion of the globe.

Busch, of Limburg (1656-1664), manufactured a globe for Duke Frederick of Holstein, formerly at Gottorp, but since 1713 at Tsarskoye Zelo.

In his early manhood, while employed as an engineer, he became a convert to the theories of Saint Simon; these he ardently advocated in the Globe, the organ of the Saint Simonians, which he edited until his arrest in 1832 on a charge of outraging public morality by its publication.

On the other hand, if the effects arose from balanced stresses set up inside the globe by the radiation, the effects on the vanes and on the case would be of the nature of action and reaction, so that the establishment of motion of the vanes in one direction would involve impulsion of the case in the opposite direction; but when the motion became steady there would no longer be any torque either on the vanes or on the case, and the latter would therefore come back to its previous position of equilibrium; finally, when the light was turned off, the decay of the motion of the vanes would involve impulsion of the case in the direction of their motion until the moment of the restoring torque arising from the suspension of the case had absorbed the angular momentum in the system.

The important part played by the residual air in the globe had also been deduced by Osborne Reynolds from observing that on turning off the light, the vanes came to rest very much sooner than the friction of the pivot alone would account for; in fact, the rapid subsidence is an illustration of Maxwell's great theoretical discovery that viscosity in a gas (as also diffusion both of heat and of the gas itself) is sensibly independent of the density.

Bachian is remarkable as the most eastern point on the globe inhabited by any of the Quadrumana, a black ape occurring here as in Celebes.

The accidental use of a single name, America, for the pair of continents that has a greater extension from north to south than any other continuous land area of the globe, has had some recent justification, since the small body of geological opinion has turned in favour of the theory of the tetrahedral deformation of the earth's crust as affording explanation of the grouping of continents and oceans.

Garnering several nominations and the winner of an Emmy and several Golden Globe Awards, Seymour has enjoyed a long and successful career in Hollywood.

Earnings also increase dramatically after a big award win, such as an Oscar or Golden Globe.

While that remains an egg she hasn't cracked since 1982, she's won seven Golden Globe Awards, the most of any performer.

While Streep has won the most Golden Globe awards for acting, Barbra Streisand has won the most total Golden Globe awards, winning special awards as well.

Despite its storied history, there have only been four performers to have won two Golden Globe Awards in the same year.

Zadora won the New Star of the Year Golden Globe Award, beating out Elizabeth McGovern for the film Ragtime, and Kathleen Turner for the film Body Heat.