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Orbit   /ˈɔrbət/   Listen
noun
Orbit  n.  
1.
(Astron.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.
2.
An orb or ball. (Rare & Improper) "Roll the lucid orbit of an eye."
3.
(Anat.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.
4.
(Zool.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.





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"Orbit" Quotes from Famous Books



... equivalent to unravelling a hidden plan of Nature for accomplishing a perfect civil constitution for a universal society; since a universal society is the sole state in which the tendencies of human nature can be fully developed. We cannot determine the orbit of the development, because the whole period is so vast and only a small fraction is known to us, but this is enough to show that there is a ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... might have said teachers) "are the best of things well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn....Undoubtedly ...
— How To Study and Teaching How To Study • F. M. McMurry
... gone out of her proper place in the Union, and her loyal population had been found too weak to force her back into it without negro bullets and bayonets, and if, after thus coercing her again into her constitutional orbit, her loyalists had been found unable to hold her there without negro ballots, the question of negro suffrage in Indiana would most obviously have been very different from the comparatively abstract one which it ...
— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes
... case of those of its impulses which apparently are the most unreasoned. It seems at times as if nations were submitted to secret forces analogous to those which compel the acorn to transform itself into an oak or a comet to follow its orbit. ...
— The Crowd • Gustave le Bon
... it. You are a star going comfortably through your universe in a fixed orbit. You maintain your exact relations with your brother and sister stars. You keep all your engagements, you never wobble in your path—everything exact, mathematical. And up darts a wild-haired, impetuous comet, a hurrying, bustling, irregular wanderer coming from you don't know where, going ...
— The Great God Success • John Graham (David Graham Phillips)


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