The difference between Orb and Wheel
When used as nouns, orb means a spherical body, whereas wheel means a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. a steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle. the instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered. a spinning wheel. a potter's wheel. this device used as a heraldic charge, usually with six spokes.
When used as verbs, orb means to form into an orb or circle, whereas wheel means to roll along on wheels.
check bellow for the other definitions of Orb and Wheel
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Orb as a noun:
A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
Examples:
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Orb as a noun:
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
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Orb as a noun:
A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit
Examples:
"The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. rfdatek Bacon"
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Orb as a noun (rare):
A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
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Orb as a noun (poetic):
The eye, as luminous and spherical
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Orb as a noun (poetic):
A revolving circular body; a wheel
Examples:
"The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. rfdatek John Milton"
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Orb as a noun (rare):
A sphere of action.
Examples:
"rfquotek Wordsworth"
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Orb as a noun:
A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power
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Orb as a noun:
A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
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Orb as a noun (military):
A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
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Orb as a verb (poetic, transitive):
To form into an orb or circle.
Examples:
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Orb as a verb (poetic, intransitive):
To become round like an orb.
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Orb as a verb (poetic, transitive):
To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
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Orb as a noun (architecture):
A blank window or panel.
Examples:
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Wheel as a noun (informal, with "the"):
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle. The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered. A spinning wheel. A potter's wheel. This device used as a heraldic charge, usually with six spokes.
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Wheel as a noun:
A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment.
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Wheel as a noun (slang):
A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
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Wheel as a noun (poker slang):
The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
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Wheel as a noun (automotive):
A wheelrim.
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Wheel as a noun:
A round portion of cheese.
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Wheel as a noun:
A Catherine wheel firework.
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Wheel as a noun (obsolete):
A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
Examples:
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Wheel as a noun:
A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
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Wheel as a noun (computing, dated):
A superuser on certain systems.
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Wheel as a verb (intransitive, or, transitive):
To roll along on wheels.
Examples:
"Wheel that trolley over here, would you?"
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Wheel as a verb (transitive):
To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
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Wheel as a verb (intransitive):
To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
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Wheel as a verb (transitive):
To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
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Wheel as a verb (intransitive):
To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
Examples:
"The vulture wheeled above us."
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Wheel as a verb (transitive):
To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.