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globe Definition

globe (glōb)

noun

  1. any round, ball-shaped thing; sphere; specif.,
    1. the earth
    2. a spherical model of the earth showing the continents, seas, etc.
    3. a similar model of the heavens, showing the constellations, etc.
  2. anything shaped somewhat like a globe; specif.,
    1. a round glass container, as for goldfish
    2. a rounded glass cover for a lamp
    3. a small, golden ball used as a symbol of authority

Etymology: ME < L globus, a ball: for IE base see climb

transitive verb, intransitive verb globed, glob′·ing

to form or gather into a globe

globe Synonyms

globe

n.

  1. A sphere

    balloon, orb, spheroid; see ball 1.

  2. The earth; usually with ""the''

    terrestrial globe, celestial globe, Copernican sphere; see earth 1.

globe Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • circumnavigate: Meanwhile, their rivals the Spanish headed west, hoping to reach India by circumnavigating the globe.
  • encircle: A bald head with an elongated whisper of hair encircling that wondrous globe which is the swimmer's bonce.
  • scour: Instead of confining himself to London he now scours the globe for the incidental.
  • sweep: Have you caught up with the new craze that is sweeping the globe?
  • span: No matter how far flung its peoples may be, subtle lines of interconnection span the globe, creating unity between them.
  • criss-cross: Much of this transport is needless: every day, identical commodities pass in opposite directions, criss-crossing the globe.

Adjective modifier

  • celestial: There is also a celestial globe in the background.
  • habitable: There is not a place on the habitable globe where these men can find refuge and in which they will not be tracked down.
  • terrestrial: On the ninth day after leaving Yokohama, Phileas Fogg had traversed exactly one half of the terrestrial globe.
  • bbc1: It brings back lots of fine memories, such as the BBC1 globe, and the famous BBC Two '2 ' .
  • entire: Wide area networks can be made up of interconnected smaller networks spread throughout a building, a state or the entire globe.
  • golden: He sat beside her and together they watched the golden globe chase away the pre-dawn cool.

Modifies a noun

  • artichoke: The dramatic flower heads, which are often in clusters, reveal this plant's close relationship to the globe artichoke.
  • trotter: ACCESSORIES The CAPONORD is Aprilia's globe trotter, designed for maximum versatility in all situations.
  • thistle: The rich blues of the globe thistle and sea holly against the bold yellow of the yarrow is a sight to behold.
  • thermometer: Globe temperature T g The globe thermometer occupies a central place in the instrumentation of comfort surveys.
  • icon: The globe icon indicates resources that are available off campus.
  • valve: The valve is basically a globe valve without the disk.

Noun used with modifier

  • inch/23: Childrens Globes £ 29.99 US$58.48 E46.48 Top quality 9 inch/23 cm globe.
  • cm: Childrens Globes £ 29.99 US$58.48 E46.48 Top quality 9 inch/23 cm globe.
globe Quotes

All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.

—Bryant,William Cullen

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining togetheras one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

—Muir,John

The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.

—Thomas, Dylan Marlais

Sothat finding myself at present inorabout onehundred and twenty degrees off east longitude from England, it bred in me a desire to proceed on the same easterly course till I had ended where I began, and so to have once made one circle round the globe of the earth, which would have been a voyage of voyages.

—Mundy, Peter

  He who drinks a tumbler of London Water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, Women and Children on the face of the globe.

—Smith, Rev Sydney

Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, Thisgewgaw world, and put him cheaply off: I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.

—Dryden,John

In1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations.Weset downonpaper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.

—Truman, Harry S