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Sphere   /sfɪr/   Listen
Sphere

noun
1.
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"
2.
Any spherically shaped artifact.
3.
The geographical area in which one nation is very influential.  Synonym: sphere of influence.
4.
A particular aspect of life or activity.  Synonym: sector.
5.
A solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses).
6.
A three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center.
7.
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



... which he secretly wished was his own. The tender passion had been a new thing to the money-loving Arthur. By its elevating influences, he, who had looked for enjoyment only in wealth, had been enabled to raise his vision to a higher sphere of happiness. And thus to lose the bright glimpses, and be thrown back to earth again, was, in reality, however he might disguise the fact from others, a serious blow to his feelings, and one, indeed, which soon mainly led to a movement on his part that gave a new turn to his apparent ...
— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson

... Nature, mourn for Adonais. (42) He is made one with Nature. (45) In 'the unapparent' he was welcomed by Chatterton, Sidney, Lucan, and (46) many more immortals, and was hailed as the master of a 'kingless sphere' in a 'heaven of song.' (48) Let any rash mourner go to Rome, and (49) visit the cemetery. (53) And thou, my heart, why linger and shrink? Adonais calls thee: be no longer divided from him. (55) The soul of Adonais beacons ...
— Adonais • Shelley

... while she ties A fillet of the weed about my head; And in the gaps of sleep I seem to hear A gentle rustle like the stir of corn, And words like odours thronging to my ear: "Lie still, beloved—still until the morn; Lie still with me upon this rolling sphere— Still till the judgment; thou ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald

... diagram in dealing with such a topic as this; but perhaps recourse might without offence be had to this method—necessarily imperfect as it is—on account of its essential simplicity, and because it is calculated to remove misapprehensions. If we can think of a very large sphere, A, and, situated anywhere within this, of a very small sphere, a—then the relation of the smaller to the greater will be that of the sphere of immanence to the sphere of transcendence. The two ...
— Problems of Immanence - Studies Critical and Constructive • J. Warschauer

... unoppressed and unshackled. Oh! how splendid would be my career! I would not allow the change in my condition to exercise any influence on my natural disposition. I would experience the same passions and be subject to the same feelings, only they should be exercised and influential in a wider sphere. Then would be seen the influence of great wealth, directed by a disposition similar to that of the generality of men, inasmuch as it had been formed like that of the generality of men; and consequently, one much better acquainted with their ...
— Vivian Grey • The Earl of Beaconsfield


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