globe
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2.1
- noun
- /ɡloʊb/
:
globo terráqueo
- Likewise, a student-made globe does not need to be perfect in order to be functional and fun.
- maps and globes
- use a globe
- celestial globe
Not as your schoolroom globe showed it to you.
- Not as your schoolroom globe showed it to you.
- If you pick a globe and turn and put the finger.
- Here is a globe of Mars One.
- If you think of the Earth as a sphere, put it on your globe.
Examples
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Find Afghanistan on the map or globe to show the students where the song originated.
Academic text (2003) -
Dotty bought me a new pair of mittens, a globe of the world, and a subscription to Smithsonian magazine.
Fiction book (2000) -
I mean, if you look at the globe from that side, you see almost no land.
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Point to it on the globe for me.
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Children need to be able to find their state on the globe and their city on a map.
Academic text (1992) -
When I was a little girl... for my seventh birthday... my father gave me a globe.
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The President moves over to the globe by his desk, spins it, stopping in on Europe.
Fiction book (2000) -
Perched on the rim of a terrestrial globe, an owl gazes outward from the inky darkness at the upper right.
Academic text (2015) -
The teacher asked us to find Brazil on the globe to understand its location better.
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During our geography lesson, we studied the globe to learn about the different continents.
Synonyms
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8.2
A round model of the Earth or another planet used to show countries
A round model of the sky showing stars and constellations
Compounds
- Specialized
A small flower plant from northern California with bright yellow egg-shaped blooms in open clusters
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Globe comes from the Latin globus, meaning 'round mass' or 'ball', just like a ball. That's why a map globe is a round, ball-like model of the Earth you can spin to find places.