GLOBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does globe mean? 

• GLOBE (noun)
  The noun GLOBE has 3 senses:

1. the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on

2. an object with a spherical shape

3. a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented

  Familiarity information: GLOBE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

earth; globe; world

Context example:

he sailed around the world

Instance hypernyms:

terrestrial planet (a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system)

Holonyms ("globe" is a member of...):

solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)

Derivation:

global (involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An object with a spherical shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

ball; globe; orb

Context example:

a ball of fire

Hypernyms ("globe" is a kind of...):

sphere (a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "globe"):

crystal ball (a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers)

camphor ball; mothball (a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing)

time-ball (a ball that slides down a staff to show a fixed time; especially at an observatory)

fireball (the luminous center of a nuclear explosion)

fireball (a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning))

globule (a small globe or ball)

spherule; pellet (a small sphere)

bolus (a small round soft mass (as of chewed food))

Derivation:

conglobate (assume a globular shape)

global; globular (having the shape of a sphere or ball)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("globe" is a kind of...):

model; simulation (representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale))

sphere (any spherically shaped artifact)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "globe"):

celestial globe (a globe that is a spherical model of the heavens)

Derivation:

globular (having the shape of a sphere or ball)

 Context examples 

As a result, Arctic absorption of mercury indicates that the region will continue to serve as a global sink of mercury emitted elsewhere in the globe.

(Study finds mercury levels in Arctic soils 5 times higher than temperate regions, National Science Foundation)

The information will help us predict the behavior of active volcanoes around the globe.

(Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory, NSF)

Before the throne, was a large table filled with globes and spheres, and mathematical instruments of all kinds.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Catching its shadow involved eight ground-based radio telescopes around the globe, operating together as if they were one telescope the size of our entire planet.

(Black Hole Image Makes History, NASA)

Tens of professionally run telescopes across the globe will be making ground-based observations in wavelengths from visible to near-infrared to radar.

(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)

Although many fossils of titanosaurians have been discovered around the globe, especially in South America, few have been recovered from the continent of Africa.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

At the heart of the system is the mid-ocean ridge: undersea mountains that circle the globe.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)

With only two months left in the year, the globe remains on track to be one of the warmest years, if not the warmest, in the 122-year record.

(Last month tied as 3rd warmest October on record for the globe, NOAA)

Their results are based on data from hundreds of plant and animal species surveyed around the globe.

(One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years, National Science Foundation)

A congenital abnormality characterized by the presence of two abnormally small eye globes.

(Bilateral Microphthalmos, NCI Thesaurus)