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Circle

noun

1.

Ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point.

2.

An unofficial association of people or groups. Synonyms: band, lot, set. "They were an angry lot"

3.

Something approximating the shape of a circle.

4.

Movement once around a course. Synonyms: circuit, lap.

5.

A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island. Synonyms: rotary, roundabout, traffic circle.

6.

Street names for flunitrazepan. Synonyms: forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roach, roofy, rope, rophy.

7.

A curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra. Synonym: dress circle.

8.

Any circular or rotating mechanism. Synonym: round.

verb

(past & past part. circled; pres. part. circling)

1.

Travel around something.

2.

Move in circles. Synonym: circulate.

3.

Form a circle around. Synonym: encircle.

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"Circle" Quotes from Famous Books

... throbbing with pain. The family friend in this instance had certainly been severely taxed in the exercise of his friendship. And what was he to do next? How was he to conduct himself that evening in the family circle, knowing, as he so well did, that his coming there was to bring destruction upon them all? "Be tender to him," Aunt Letty had said, little knowing how great a call there would be on his tenderness of heart, and how little scope for any ...

— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope

... moving strains. Nature in her alone exceeds all art, And nature sure does nearest touch the heart. Oh! might I call the bright discoverer mine, The whole fair sex unenvied I'd resign; Give all my happy hours to Delia's charms, She who by writing thus our wishes warms, What worlds of love must circle in her arms? ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. IV • Theophilus Cibber

... course of which I had seen many new and interesting objects, besides gaining some insight into the mode of life among the sailors. Frequently, when it fell calm, our Arabs would recline on the ground in a circle, singing songs of an inconceivably inharmonious and lugubrious character, while they clapped their hands in cadence, and burst at intervals into a barking laugh. I could not find any thing very amusing in this entertainment; on the ...

— A Visit to the Holy Land • Ida Pfeiffer

... round the moon means "storm." As many stars as are in circle, so many days before it ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... developed consciousness of what the universe is. What these people experience IS Reality. It gives us an absolute phase of the universe. It is the personal experience of those most qualified in all our circle of knowledge to HAVE experience, to tell us WHAT is. Now, what does THINKING ABOUT the experience of these persons come to compared with directly, personally feeling it, as they feel it? The philosophers ...

— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James

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