Meaning of circle | Babel Free

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1. A census-designated place in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. Erroneously thought to be on the Arctic Circle, which is 50 miles further north.
2. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center)
3. A surname from German.
4. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
5. To move in a circle. See Synonyms at turn.
6. A town, the county seat of McCone County, Montana, United States. Named after a cattle brand in the form of a circle.
7. 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 (radius) from a given point
8. 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 (radius) from a given point.
   colloquial
9. To take a defensive position; become defensive.
10. the Circle line of the London Underground, originally the Inner Circle.
11. Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures
12. Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
13. come full circle, to find oneself back where one started.
14. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures
15. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
16. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
17. A closed curve whose points are all on the same plane and at the same distance from a fixed point (the center).
18. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle
19. A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
20. A balcony or tier in the auditorium. The dress circle, usually the most expensive seats where spectators used to dress formally, is the first tier.
21. círculo, circunferencia.
22. The orbit of an astronomical body.
23. A plane curve everywhere equidistant from a given fixed point, the center.
24. 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.
25. A circular or nearly circular course, circuit, or orbit: a satellite's circle around the earth.
26. A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
27. A traffic circle.
28. A traffic circle or roundabout.
    Dundee, India, Philippines, South-Africa
29. A series or process that finishes at its starting point or continuously repeats itself; a cycle.
30. Compass; circuit; enclosure.
    obsolete
31. An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
32. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
33. A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
34. Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
    form-of, indirect
35. A territorial division or district.
36. A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
    in-plural

Equivalents

Examples

“The set of all points (x, y) such that (x − 1)² + y² = r² is a circle of radius r around the point (1, 0).”

“Children, please join hands and form a circle.”

“Cut a circle out of that sheet of metal.”

“The crank moves in a circle.”

“inner circle”

“circle of friends”

“literary circle”

“As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened.”

“At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.”

““I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"”

“The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.”

“He arrived at the lakefront and drove around the circle where the amusement park and beach used to be when he was a kid[…]”

“in the circle of this forest”

“Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain.”

“That heavy Bodies deſcend by gravity, is no better an account then we might expect from a Ruſtick: and again; that Gravity is a quality whereby an heavy body deſcends, is an impertinent Circle, and teacheth nothing.”

“Has he given the lie, / In circle, or oblique, or semicircle.”

“The ten Circles of the Holy Roman Empire were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet.”

“After working all night, she had circles under her eyes.”

“The authorising acts were passed in July 1864, and this legislation brought into being what is today the Circle Line ... all of which sounds very simple. In reality it would be a painful process.”

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