OB
\ˈɒb], \ˈɒb], \ˈɒ_b]\
Definitions of OB
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother
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a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A prefix signifying to, toward, before, against, reversely, etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-.
By Oddity Software
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A prefix signifying to, toward, before, against, reversely, etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-.
By Noah Webster.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A prefix meaning "in the way of"; "against," as in obviate; ob becomes oc before c, as in occasion: of before f, as in offend; o before m, as in omit; and op before p, as in oppose; in bot., ob means "reversed"-thus: "cordate" means heart-shaped, with the attachment at the broad end; "obcordate" means heart-shaped, but with the attachment at the narrow end.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
