Circle
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Noun
Circle (plural Circles)- (geometry): A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from another point.
- A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance from another point.
- Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
- A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
- Orbit.
- A specific group of persons.
- (cricket) A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
Verb
Circle (third-person singular simple present Circles, present participle circling, simple past and past participle circled)
- (transitive) To travel around along a curved path.
- (transitive) To surround.
- (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.
- (intransitive) To travel in circles.
Adjectives for Circle
conversational; social; illustrious; exclusive; gilded; artistic; political; aristocratic; literary; fashionable; wealthy; financial; wide; brilliant; well-bred; bigoted; select; limited; cheery; charmed; real; ideal; convivial; erratic; perfect; dim; pale; iron; eddying; disintegrated; blurred; broken; enclosing; great; sweeping; sturdy; charmed; intimate; executive; solemn; predestined; concentric; cosmopolitan; bizarre; widening; charred; ceremonial; ringing; collapsed; ever-enlarging; original; vicious agricultural; splendid; decorative; leading influential; distinguished; smartest; elastic pleasant; closed; petty; educational; esoteric; polished; interior; operatic; ultrafa-shionable; awkward; extended; deep; ruddy; vast; walled; uninterrupted; conservative; privileged; noisy; wavering; pallid; giddy; curious; deft; professional; diplomatic.
Verbs for Circle
accomplish —; assemble in —; bar from —; circumscribe —; cleave —; complete —; cut —; disband —; emit from —; form —; flutter in —; guard —; hallow —; inscribe —; insert in —; join —; lead into —; narrow —; pour in —; revolve —; round —; spin in —; swell —; trace —; — disintegrates ; — widens.
Adverbs for Circle
demurely; erratically; solemnly; wideningly; ceremonially; viciously; awkwardly; noisily; waveringly; curiously; treacherously.
Synonyms for Circle
- (two-dimensional outline geometric figure): coil (not in mathematical use), ring (not in mathematical use), loop (not in mathematical use)
- (two-dimensional solid geometric figure): disc/disk (in mathematical and general use), round (not in mathematical use; UK & Commonwealth only)
- (curve): arc, curve
- (orbit): orbit
- clique, society, coterie, set, class, companions.
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Thesaurus
acquaintance, advance, alentours, alternate, ambience, ambit, anklet, annular muscle, annulus, anthelion, antisun, aphelion, apogee, arc, arena, areola, armlet, arsis, ascend, associates, astronomical longitude, aura, aureole, autumnal equinox, back, back up, bailiwick, band, bangle, be here again, beads, beat, begird, belt, belt in, bijou, border, borderland, borderlands, bout, bow, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, budge, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, camp, catacaustic, catenary, caustic, celestial equator, celestial longitude, celestial meridian, cell, chain, change, change place, chaplet, charm, charmed circle, chatelaine, cincture, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambiencies, circumambulate, circumference, circumjacencies, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumrotate, circumscribe, circumstances, circumvent, circumvolute, circus, clan, class, climb, clique, close the circle, closed circle, colures, come again, come and go, come around, come full circle, come round, come round again, come up again, companions, company, compass, comrades, conchoid, context, cordon, corona, coronet, coterie, countersun, course, crank, crescent, crew, cronies, crook, crowd, crown, curl, curve, cycle, demesne, department, descend, describe a circle, diacaustic, diadem, diastole, dimensions, discus, disk, division, domain, dominion, downbeat, earring, ebb, ecliptic, elite, elite group, ellipse, encincture, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, ensphere, entourage, environ, environing circumstances, environment, environs, equator, equinoctial, equinoctial circle, equinoctial colure, equinox, eternal return, extension, extent, fairy ring, fellowship, festoon, field, flank, flow, fob, fraternity, friends, full circle, galactic longitude, garland, gem, geocentric longitude, geodetic longitude, gestalt, get over, gird, girdle, girdle the globe, glory, go, go about, go around, go round, go sideways, go the round, great circle, group, gyrate, gyre, habitat, halo, heliocentric longitude, hem, hemisphere, hook, hoop, hyperbola, ingroup, inner circle, intermit, jewel, judicial circuit, junta, junto, jurisdiction, lap, lasso, length, lituus, locket, logical circle, longitude, loop, looplet, lot, lunar corona, lunar halo, magic circle, make a circuit, march, meridian, milieu, mob, mock moon, mock sun, moon dog, mount, move, move over, necklace, neighborhood, nimbus, noose, nose ring, orb, orbit, oscillate, outfit, outposts, outskirts, pale, parabola, paraselene, parhelic circle, parhelion, perigee, perihelion, perimeter, period, periphery, pin, pirouette, pivot, plunge, precinct, precincts, precious stone, progress, province, pulsate, pulse, purlieus, push, radius, rainbow, realm, reappear, recur, regress, reoccur, repeat, retrogress, return, revolution, revolve, rhinestone, ring, ringlet, rise, roll, roll around, rondelle, rotate, rotation, round, round trip, roundel, rounds, run, saucer, scope, screw, series, set, shift, sink, sinus, situation, skirt, small circle, soar, society, solar corona, solar halo, solstitial colure, spell, sphere, sphincter, spin, spiral, stickpin, stir, stone, stream, subside, suburbs, sun dog, surround, surroundings, swing, swivel, systole, thesis, tiara, torque, total environment, tour, tracery, trajectory, travel, turn, turn a pirouette, turn around, turn round, twine around, twist, undulate, upbeat, vernal equinox, vicinage, vicinity, vicious circle, walk, wamble, wampum, wane, we-group, wheel, wheel around, whirl, wind, wreath, wreathe, wreathe around, wristband, wristlet, zodiac, zone
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Latin circulus
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