boule vs orb

boule

verb
  • To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball. 

noun
  • A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. 

  • A round loaf of bread. 

  • A round piece of dough. 

  • A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges. 

  • A council of citizens in Ancient Greece 

  • One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. 

orb

verb
  • To form into an orb or circle. 

  • To encircle; to surround; to enclose. 

  • To become round like an orb. 

noun
  • A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star 

  • An orbit of an heavenly body 

  • Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel 

  • A sphere of action. 

  • A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics)) 

  • A blank window or panel. 

  • A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry. 

  • One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions 

  • The time period of an orbit 

  • A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere 

  • The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity 

  • A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power 

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