1. sphere - Noun
2. sphere - Verb
A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.
The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
Rank; order of society; social positions.
An orbit, as of a star; a socket.
To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.
To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. Blaise Pascal
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. Arthur Schopenhauer
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive. Jean Piaget
Seek a wife in your own sphere. Latin Proverb