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Look up: globe

  1. globe
    Type: Term Pronunciation: glōb Synonyms: globus
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  2. Globe
    (Cynara) Cynara is the botanical name of two vegetables known as the Globe Artichoke and the Cardoon. The Cardoon is, C. cardunculus, botanically. It's a tender perennial that can grow 6 to 8 feet high. It resembles its cousin, the Globe Artichoke, but the gray-green leaves overlap at the base. The ...
    Found on http://www.botany.com/cynara.html

  3. GLOBE
    acronym: Global Land One kilometer Base Elevation (DIS)
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#

  4. GLOBE
    acronym: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#

  5. Globe
    See Lamp.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  6. globe
    [Noun] The world.
    Example: He took a year off to go globe-trotting with a friend.
    See also: global
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  7. globe
    This was a map of the word drawn on a sphere. In Victorian times, the British Empire was shown in one colour. This would have been used for geography lessons.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  8. globe
    [n] - a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  9. GLOBE
    Global Learning by Observations to Benefit the Environment [Internet]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  10. globe
    an envelope of transparent or diffusing material,intended to protect the lamp,to diffuse the light,or to change the colour of the light Category: Electrical engineering and energy • globe or ball of the eye Category: Medicine
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  11. globe
    Sphere showing a map of the world (terrestrial globe) or of the heavens (celestial globe), that is usually mounted on an axis and can be turned.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  12. Globe
    Globe noun [ Latin globus , perhaps akin to Latin glomus a ball of yarn, and English clump , golf : confer French globe .] 1. A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part e...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/34

  13. Globe
    Globe transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Globed ; present participle & verbal noun Globing .] To gather or form into a globe.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/34

  14. globe
    1. A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere. ... 2. Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp. ... 3. The earth; the terraqueous ball; usually preceded ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  15. globe
    noun a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  16. globe
    a three-dimensional spherical model of the earth and its surface
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  17. Globe
    • (n.) A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe. • (n.) A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphe...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  18. Globe
    city, seat (1881) of Gila county, east-central Arizona, U.S. It lies along Pinal Creek in the foothills between the Pinal and Apache mountains. ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/38

  19. globe
    sphere or ball that bears a map of the Earth on its surface and is mounted on an axle that permits rotation. The ancient Greeks, who knew the Earth ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/38

  20. globe
    globe 1. A body with the shape of a sphere, especially a representation of the earth in the form of a hollow ball; the earth, a planet; the planet on which we live. 2. A sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented. 3. A spherical or bowllike container, especially a glass cover f...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  21. Globe
    Globe is a cultivated variety of potato.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  22. globe
    envelope of transparent or diffusing material, intended to protect the lamp, to diffuse the light, or to change the colour of the light
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/

  23. globe
    globe, spherical map of the earth (terrestrial globe) or the sky (celestial globe). The terrestrial globe provides the only graphic representation of the areas of the earth without significant distortion or inaccuracy in shape, direction, or relative size. However, the flattening of the earth at the...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A082

  24. Globe
    A globe is a sphere, a round solid body, which may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter. An artificial globe, in geography and astronomy, is a globe of metal, plaster, paper, pasteboard, plastic etc, on the surface of which is drawn a map, or representati...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  25. globe
    Sphere showing a map of the world (terrestrial globe) or of the heavens (celestial globe), that is usually mounted on an axis and can be turned.
    Found on http://www.antique-marks.com/antique-ter



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12 February 2012

This day in history:
/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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