Толковый словарь английского языка - sphere

I. noun see: spurn Date: 14th century 1. a. the apparent surface of the heavens of which half forms the dome of the visible sky, any of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which according to ancient astronomy stars, sun, planets, and moon are set, a globe depicting such a ~, 2. a globular body ; ball, planet, star, c. a solid that is bounded by a surface consisting of all points at a given distance from a point constituting its center, the bounding surface of a ~, natural, normal, or proper place, 4. orbit, an area or range over or within which someone or something acts, exists, or has influence or significance , spheric adjective, archaic sphericity noun II. transitive verb (~d; sphering) Date: 1602 to place in a ~ or among the ~s ; en~, to form into a ~