"orbical" meaning in All languages combined

See orbical on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more orbical [comparative], most orbical [superlative]
Etymology: orb + -ical Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|orb|ical}} orb + -ical Head templates: {{en-adj}} orbical (comparative more orbical, superlative most orbical)
  1. Synonym of orbicular Synonyms: orbicular [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-orbical-en-adj-wyojh9uj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ical

Download JSON data for orbical meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "orb",
        "3": "ical"
      },
      "expansion": "orb + -ical",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "orb + -ical",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more orbical",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most orbical",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "orbical (comparative more orbical, superlative most orbical)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ical",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870 October, James Manning Sherwood, “Chance”, in Hours at Home: a Popular Monthly of Instruction and Recreation, volume 11, page 523",
          "text": "And there are questions respecting this stellar universe which still puzzle the most profound: gravitation, chemical affinity, polarity, the number and distances of some of the celestial bodies; why they are just so orbical, elliptical, or erratic; how many are inhabited, and by what forms of life and what degrees of intelligence?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Philip Warsaw, Genesis, Mother of Sciences: An Exposition, page 37",
          "text": "This superimposed argon exerted throughout an unimaginable rigorous pressure over the whole orbical nebula, translative to a sphere of petrified ice and sundry ice ages following relentlessly one another.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Frank Ching, Interior Design Illustrated, page 144",
          "text": "To achieve an occult or orbical balance, an asymmetrical composition must take into account the visual weight or force of each of its elements and employ the principle of leverage in their arrangement.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, James Scott Bell, No Legal Grounds, page 32",
          "text": "His features were orbical — round eyes, round nose, round cheekbones.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of orbicular"
      ],
      "id": "en-orbical-en-adj-wyojh9uj",
      "links": [
        [
          "orbicular",
          "orbicular#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "orbicular"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "orbical"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "orb",
        "3": "ical"
      },
      "expansion": "orb + -ical",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "orb + -ical",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more orbical",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most orbical",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "orbical (comparative more orbical, superlative most orbical)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ical",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870 October, James Manning Sherwood, “Chance”, in Hours at Home: a Popular Monthly of Instruction and Recreation, volume 11, page 523",
          "text": "And there are questions respecting this stellar universe which still puzzle the most profound: gravitation, chemical affinity, polarity, the number and distances of some of the celestial bodies; why they are just so orbical, elliptical, or erratic; how many are inhabited, and by what forms of life and what degrees of intelligence?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Philip Warsaw, Genesis, Mother of Sciences: An Exposition, page 37",
          "text": "This superimposed argon exerted throughout an unimaginable rigorous pressure over the whole orbical nebula, translative to a sphere of petrified ice and sundry ice ages following relentlessly one another.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Frank Ching, Interior Design Illustrated, page 144",
          "text": "To achieve an occult or orbical balance, an asymmetrical composition must take into account the visual weight or force of each of its elements and employ the principle of leverage in their arrangement.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, James Scott Bell, No Legal Grounds, page 32",
          "text": "His features were orbical — round eyes, round nose, round cheekbones.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of orbicular"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "orbicular",
          "orbicular#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "orbicular"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "orbical"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (6c02f21 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.