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Meanings of sphere in English
The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected.
Round, rotationally symmetric shape of the 2D surface of a ball in 3D space.
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Examples for "heavens"
Examples for "heavens"
1
No time is left for discussing the new heavens and New Earth.
2
It will remain until the new heavens and the new earth come.
3
Thank heavens Ireland may not come back here for another dozen years.
4
But I do believe in the new heavens and the New Earth.
5
The Tree of Life had pierced the heavens; it overtopped the stars.
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The bright particular star in this firmament of friends was Mrs. Slater.
2
Try to please your cousin; she is a star in the firmament.
3
Y: On the Day when the firmament will be in dreadful commotion.
4
Taking a portion of His rays the sun shines in the firmament.
5
The firmament seems to be like the solid base of a vessel.
1
And the ringing welkin is all we should have heard in Michigan.
2
Wails of grief, O Bharata, arose among the gods in the welkin.
3
What the virgin Gayatri has said from the welkin is not true.
4
The welkin seemed as if it were shrouded by a thick forest.
5
From roadside trees the cicada vied with them, making the welkin ring.
1
Up in the empyrean courtly circles his relations were quite as gratifying.
2
That was an empyrean too high for his wing to soar in.
3
To be the centre of a maze of manoeuvres was his empyrean.
4
She had mildly soared with him into the empyrean of his dreams.
5
And such must have been from the beginning the condition of the empyrean.
1
The earth, argued Ptolemy, lies at the centre of the celestial sphere.
2
Egg represented the concavity of the celestial sphere enclosing all things, 663-l.
3
This figure forms a grand trapezium of four stars on the celestial sphere.
4
The third star whirls counterclockwise on the celestial sphere itself.
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The points in which the latter intersects the celestial sphere are called the galactic poles.
1
His cry uprose and was lost in the immense vault of heaven.
2
Black clouds hung in huge, portentous masses over, the vault of heaven.
3
Then from the vault of heaven darted a ribbon of emerald fire.
4
One would have pronounced them spiders' webs of the vault of heaven.
5
She represents the vault of heaven, and is the mother of the gods.
Portuguese
esfera de influência Usage of sphere in English
1
A sphere, however, is one thing; a rotating sphere is quite another.
2
This is an extremely pertinent question, especially in the sphere of immigration.
3
The natural and correct form for such a thing is a sphere.
4
The liberal party appears to be vanquished in the sphere of economics.
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These private acts in an almost public sphere echoed his social nature.
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This, of course, cannot happen in any other sphere of the arts.'
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Again, they want a colony free from the government sphere of influence.
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In the domestic political sphere, Gore's straitened qualities work to his disadvantage.
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And they can do whatever they choose within their sphere of power.
10
But what exactly is happening in the radio-sphere that makes this dangerous?
11
The native interests of children lie altogether in the sphere of sensation.
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Every sect, in whatever sphere, is the rallying-point of doubt and error.
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Also, the surface area of a sphere is pretty easy to calculate.
14
For the absolutely unconditioned cannot be discovered in the sphere of experience.
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Nowhere is the matter better illustrated than in the sphere of vision.
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Had he actually slipped outside our sphere to points unguessed and unimaginable?
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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