a river in the W Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NW to the Gulf of Ob. 2,500 miles (4,025 km) long.
Gulf of, an inlet of the Arctic Ocean. About 500 miles (800 km) long.
Medicine/Medical. Also ob
off Broadway.
opening of books.
ordered back.
oboe.
Meteorology. observation.
opening of books.
ordered back.
(on tombstones) obiit
obiter
oboe
Old Boy
outside broadcast
Middle English (from Old French ) from Latin, representing ob (preposition); in some scientific terms, from New Latin, Latin ob- (prefix)
From the Latin word obiit
From the Latin word obiter
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Water levels in both the Ishim and the Tobol, which form part of the world's seventh longest Ob river system, are not expected to peak until 23 or 24 April.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2024
All of this has a number of implications for the Arctic: northern rivers, especially the region's largest, the Ob, Yenesey, Lena and Mackenzie, will see proportionally more water coming from their northern reaches.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024
Poor ol' RiP will try to buck the trend but, as Ob pointed out, it's one facade in public and another in private.
From Time ● Apr. 30, 2013
‘They stand, and they withstand’: the nomadic Nenets photographed by Sebastião Salgado: north of the Ob river, inside the Arctic Circle, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, 2011.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2013
Ob said nothing about the place except that he used to go fishing with a man who lived in it years ago.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
“I was going to the hospital, I was vocal, I was saying, here’s my OB, here’s my records, she’s saying explicitly, this is ectopic, and none of the ER doctors would respond.”
From Salon ● May 26, 2026
This was done via OB Projects Management, a South African business consultancy firm that has said it is representing the Zimbabwean farmers.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
I called my OB to check on the slightest twitch or pain at all times of day or night.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Endeavor said it will sell two of its properties to OB Global Holdings LLC, in a management buyout backed by Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
Put FC = h, and MC = x, and OB = l.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
When the land suddenly slides, most of the old familiar patterns are ob- literated�and Johnson's triumph was achieved by smashing across regional, economic and ideological lines that had long held firm for the G.O.P.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carter begins not only with that advantage but also, as an outsider, he is free of many heavy ob- ligations to special groups.
From Time Magazine Archive
A subscription of $1,000 was voted to help ob- tain a pardon for Mooney.
From Time Magazine Archive
This ob- noxious tonic possesses many of the vitamins necessary to discourage rickets, gives strength to rickety children.
From Time Magazine Archive
The school created the very first teaching hospital in the world, a place where the sick were treated and young doctors learned their craft, as well as a fine ob- servatory to track the heavens.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
Here lyes the body of William Wheatley, ob. 10th Nov. 1683.
From William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground by Surtees, Scott
Two pounde of hennes fleshe, goose, or ducke, is worth two Foi of their money, that is, d. ob. sterling.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de
Gornicki, ob. after 1591, Czarnkowski, Odachowski, and others, but especially the first named, were considered as the most distinguished orators of the age.
From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob
Man'dĕ -ʞaⁿ ¢aⁿ ukínacke gaxá- biamá, kĭ síg¢e ¢é -hnaⁿ tĕ ĕ'di i¢aⁿ'¢a- bow string the ob. noose he made it they say, and trail went habitually the there he put it biamá.
From Illustration Of The Method Of Recording Indian Languages From the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution by Gatschet, Albert Samuel
Sarah Finn, the casting director on “Loki” who also worked on “Everything Everywhere,” recommended Quan for the role of O.B. after seeing the film at a cast and crew screening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
Some is attributable to Ke Huy Quan's onboarding as O.B., the TVA's hidden tech genius, and our reminder that not everything that happened to the multiverse between 2021 and now was terrible.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2023
Jackson’s water system has been beset by problems for decades, but the latest troubles began in late August after heavy rainfall exacerbated problems at the O.B.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
“You’ve been paying into Social Security your whole life,” Mr. Biden told an audience at O.B.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
One result of this controversy was that in 1873 it having come to the attention of Rev. O.B.
From Unitarianism in America by Cooke, George Willis
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