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orc

[ awrk ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
a mythical monster, as an ogre.

O.R.C.

abbreviation for

Officers' Reserve Corps.

orc

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noun

any of various whales, such as the killer and grampus
one of an imaginary race of evil goblins, esp in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien

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Origin of orc¹

First recorded in 1520–30; partly from Middle French orque, a kind of whale, partly from Italian orca “large whale, fabulous sea monster,” partly from Latin orca, a kind of whale; orca ( def ); Orcus ( def ), ogre

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Origin of orc¹

C16: via Latin orca, perhaps from Greek orux whale

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The spell is only broken when the night ends, not with an out-of-control orc or goblin but with something far more mundane: a bill.

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For a while I thought they were heralding an orc attack; now it turns out they may just be grieving.

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At another, Monet challenged an orc to solitaire instead of fighting it.

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We were in the city of Waterdeep, overrun by an orc horde.

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New clues emerged after the team discovered that a distant galaxy, which appeared to be enveloped in an ORC, produced a bright fluorescent glow from excited oxygen atoms.

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