What is another word for globes?

Pronunciation: [ɡlˈə͡ʊbz] (IPA)

The word "globes" can refer to a variety of things, including maps, spheres, models, and representations of the Earth. Synonyms for "globes" may include "planetary spheres," "world maps," "terrestrial models," and "global depictions." Other possible synonyms could be "globe encyclopedias," referencing the popular depiction of the world as an encyclopedic source of information, or "celestial orbs," referring to the idea of the Earth as a small, finite object in a vast, infinite universe. Regardless of the context, the word "globes" can evoke a sense of mystery, curiosity, and wonder at the beauty and complexity of our planet and the universe in which we live.

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Usage examples for Globes

They are globes of gases and vapors so hot as to be practically self luminous.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
On the third landing the man paused, and after examining the number on the key, turned to the left, and slouching past three or four doors, finally unlocked one and preceded Woburn into a room lit only by the upward gleam of the electric globes in the street below.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
He sat thus for a long time, his elbows on the table, his chin between his hands, till at length the contemplation of the abandoned sidewalks, above which the electric globes kept Stylites-like vigil, became intolerable to him, and he drew down the window-shade, and lit the gas-fixture beside the dressing-table.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton

Famous quotes with Globes

  • Amid superior ranks of splendid slaves, Lords, Dukes and Princes, titulary knaves, Confus'dly shine their crosses, gems and stars, Sceptres and globes and crowns and spoils of wars.
    Joel Barlow
  • The universe is represented in every one of its particles. Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature.The world globes itself in a drop of dew.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited; I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
    Walt Whitman
  • A cry went up in the airy solitude of the high plains: 'Let's Murder the moonlight!' Some ran to nearby cascades; gigantic wheels were raised, and turbines transformed the rushing waters into magnetic pulses that rushed up wires, up high poles, up to shining, humming globes.
    Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
  • [N]ot only must we seek the measure of motions and actions by themselves, but much more in comparison; for this is of excellent use and very general application. Now we find that the flash of a gun is seen sooner than its report is heard... and this is owing it seems to the motion of light being more rapid than that of sound. We find to that visible images are received by the sight faster than they are dismissed; thus the strings of the violin, when struck by the finger, are to appearance doubled and tripled, because the new image is received before the old one is gone; which is also why the reason why rings being spun round look like globes, and a lighted torch, carried hastily at night, seems to have a tail. And it was upon this inequality of motions in point of velocity that Galileo built his theory of flux and reflux of the sea; supposing that the earth revolved faster than the water could follow; and that the water was therefore first gathered in a heap and then fell down, as we see in a basin of water moved quickly. But this he devised upon an assumption which cannot be allowed, viz. that the earth moves; and also without being well informed as to the sexhorary motion of the tide.
    Francis Bacon

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