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Sphere

noun

A particular environment or walk of life. Synonyms: area, arena, domain, field, orbit. "It was a closed area of employment" , "He's out of my orbit"

Any spherically shaped artifact.

The geographical area in which one nation is very influential. Synonym: sphere of influence.

A particular aspect of life or activity. Synonym: sector.

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

A three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center.

The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected. Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin.

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"Sphere" Quotes from Famous Books

... that here Wait the day god's shining; We must follow Dian's sphere O'er the hills declining. Brighter comes the beam of day— Haste ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 17, No. 483., Saturday, April 2, 1831 • Various

... with a belief in ghosts, dreams and visions. The superstitions of the Gael were distinctly marked, and entirely too important to be overlooked. These beliefs may have been largely due to an uncultivated imagination and the narrow sphere in which he moved. His tales were adorned with the miraculous and his poetry contained as many shadowy as substantial personages. Innumerable were the stories of fairies, kelpies, urisks, witches and prophets or seers. Over him watched the Daoine Shi', or men of peace. In the glens and corries ...

— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean

... by instinct where the best places for shelter and for sleeping might be found; who never complained, and was wonderful with the dogs. Close as their association was, Bickersteth had felt concerning the other that his real self was in some other sphere or place towards which his mind was always turning, as though to ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... other moral requirements which come within the sphere of man's duties towards himself, it is unnecessary to demonstrate here how it is incumbent upon every man to choose a state in society adapted to his individual faculties and aptitude, to be industrious, sober and decorous, to fix on a well-regulated distribution ...

— A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth • Isaac Samuele Reggio

... which once looked down upon the slowly- receding waste of waters, and which to-day contain all the coal and iron. Hitherto every one has always believed that the Yang tsze Valley was par excellence the British sphere in China; and every one has always thought that that belief was enough. It is true that political students, going carefully over all published documents, have ended their search by declaring that the matter certainly required further elucidation. To be precise, this so- called British sphere is not ...

— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale

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