ob : Idioms & Phrases

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bay of ob

  • noun an inlet of the Kara Sea in western Siberia
    Bay of Ob.
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gulf of ob

  • noun an inlet of the Kara Sea in western Siberia
    Bay of Ob.
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ob river

  • noun a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea
    Ob.
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ob-

Ob-
Etymology
L. ob, prep. Cf. Epi-.
Definitions
  1. 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-.
Webster 1913