Word Finder - circles

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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).

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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).

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• coil
• loop
• ring

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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.

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• disc
• disk
• round

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Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.

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Children, please join hands and form a circle.

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A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.

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circle of friends

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• bunch
• gang
• group

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The orbit of an astronomical body.

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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.

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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.

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A traffic circle or roundabout.

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Compass; circuit; enclosure.

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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.

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A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.

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A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.

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Indirect form of words; circumlocution.

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A territorial division or district.

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

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(in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.

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

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To travel around along a curved path.

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The wolves circled the herd of deer.

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To surround.

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A high fence circles the enclosure.

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To place or mark a circle around.

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Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for.

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To travel in circles.

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Vultures circled overhead.

The driver had driven in circles and down every back alley he could find until Jule was confident there was no one tailing them.

Dark circles underlined her eyes.

She had dark circles under her eyes.

She was pale beneath her warm color with dark circles beneath her eyes.

She didn't say that she thought Damian would run circles around the boy and find a better solution.

It's wandering around in circles and it's not at all afraid of us.

There were dark circles beneath her light eyes, her hair was in a half-assed lumpy ponytail, and her face was so pale and drawn, she looked ill.

Most…well, all but you come from the elitist circles of their times.

Mismatched chairs, crates, and one couch had been arranged in two circles around stacks of antique books and lanterns.

Of course, she'd spent the last twenty years in the competitive upper-class circles, learning how to keep out of the way of those who would use her to get to Mr. Tim.

He looked as tired as she felt, his hair disheveled and dark circles beneath his blazing golden eyes.

The warlord was pale, her eyes faded and lined with dark circles.

There were dark circles under her eyes today, as if she hadn't slept.

They also Photoshopped away the dark circles that had been under her eyes since meeting Jonny in the hospital.

These Hebrew translations were, in their turn, rendered into Latin (by Buxtorf and others) and in this form the works of Jewish authors found their way into the learned circles of Europe.

The province is divided for administration into 42 circles (Kreise), 24 in the government of Cassel and 18 in that of Wiesbaden.

The province is divided into the six Regierungsbezirke (or departments) of Hanover, Hildesheim, Luneburg, Stade, Osnabruck and Aurich, and these again into Kreise (circles, or local government districts)-76 in all.

In 63 it suited the policy of Pompey that he should be restored to the high priesthood, with some semblance of supreme command, but of much of this semblance even he was soon again deprived by the arrangement of the pro-consul Gabinius, according to which Palestine was in 57 B.C. divided into five separate circles (auv060c, vvv&3pca).

Probably the religious opinions of Irving, originally in some respects more catholic and truer to human nature than generally prevailed in ecclesiastical circles, had gained breadth and comprehensiveness from his intercourse with Coleridge, but gradually his chief interest in Coleridge's philosophy centred round that which was mystical and obscure, and to it in all likelihood may be traced his initiation into the doctrine of millenarianism.

But it does not, like theirs, sacrifice our personality; because, according to Fechner, the one divine consciousness includes us as a larger circle includes smaller circles.

Only in the very highest circles were attempts made to keep in mind the difficulties of the actual position.

When the summits of these are worn by mastication their surfaces present circles of dentine surrounded by a border of enamel, and as attrition proceeds different patterns are produced by the union of the bases of the cusps, a trefoil form being characteristic of some species.

Many other fungi in addition to the fairy-ring champignon grow in circles, so that this habit must merely be taken with its other characters in cases of doubt.

In 1500 the diet had divided Germany into six circles, for the maintenance of peace, to which the emperor at the diet of Cologne in 1512 added four others.

Circles of these radii are usually marked around the jack for convenience' sake.

A strike of the Newcastle miners, after lasting twenty-nine weeks, came to an end in January 1890, and throughout the rest of the year there was great unrest in Labour circles.

It faded away in the great Church, and probably Celsus was describing Montanist circles (though Origen assumed that they were ordinary believers) when he wrote 3 of the many Christians of no repute who at the least provocation, whether within or without their temples, threw themselves about like inspired persons; while others did the same in cities or among armies in order to collect alms, roaming about cities or camps.

For purposes of measurement the polar boundaries are taken to be the Arctic and Antarctic circles, although in discussing the configuration and circulation it is impossible to adhere strictly to these limits.

Austrias petty persecutions of her Italian subjects in the irredente provinces, her active propaganda incompatible with Italian interests in the Balkans, and the antiItalian war talk of Austrian military circles, imperilled the relations of the two allies; it was remarked, indeed, that the object of the alliance between Austria and Italy was to prevent war between them.

In the petiole these strands may increase in number by branching, and thotigh usually reducible to the outline of the primitive horseshoe, more or less elaborated, they may in some of the complex polycylic dictyostelic types (Marattiaceae) be arranged in several concentric circles, thus imitating the arrangement of strands formed in the stem.

Near Bennachie (1619 ft.) are stone circles and monoliths supposed to be of Druidical origin.

When, then, Basilides identified the highest angel of the seven, the creator of the worlds, with the God of the Jews, this is a development of the idea which did not occur until late, possibly first in the specifically Christian circles of the Gnostics.

With increase of speeds this matter has become important as an element of comfort in passenger traffic. As a first approximation, the centre-line of a railway may be plotted out as a number of portions of circles, with intervening straight tangents connecting them, when the abruptness of the changes of direction will depend on the radii of the circular portions.

The circles A'A', which are struck with 2-inch radius, define the first portion of the knuckle.

These semicircles and the circles A'A' are joined by tangents and short arcs struck from the centre of the figure.

The "spiritualistic" movement spread like an epidemic. "Spirit circles" were soon formed in many families.

He was somewhat reserved in manner, and this led to the charge in political circles that he was cold and unsympathetic; but no one gathered around him more devoted and loyal friends, and his dignified bearing in and out of office commanded the hearty respect of his countrymen.

Schwenkfeld, whose gentle birth and courtly manners won him many friends in high circles, left behind him a sect (who were called subsequently by others Schwenkfeldians, but who called themselves "Confessors of the Glory of Christ") and numerous writings to perpetuate his ideas.

He had become possessed with the idea of addressing wider circles and of forming an order whose vocation should be to preach and missionize throughout the whole world.

The fish is also said to be represented in the oval-shaped figure, pointed at both ends, and formed by the intersection of two circles.

The ganglia are crowded at the posterior end of the body as in leeches, and there is much tendency to the obliteration of the coelom as in that group. Pterodrilus and Cirrodrilus bear a few, or circles of, external processes which may be branchiae; Bdellodrilus and Astacobdella have none.

When several rings or circles were combined representing the great circles of the heavens, the instrument became an armillary sphere.

The horror aroused by this crime did not long deaden the feeling, at least in official circles, that something must be done to introduce the principle of heredity, as the surest means of counteracting the aims of conspirators.

The contents of such a circular group are symbolically (or analogically) represented by the contents of all other circles in the animal kingdom.

It is the envelope of circles described on the central radii of an ellipse as diameters.

Rude stone monuments (circles and dolmens) and other prehistoric remains show that Syria must have been inhabited from a very early period.

Such a conception has a Greek tinge, and would be found in Jewish circles, probably, not before the 2nd century B.C.

Treating the earth as a sphere, the meridians of longitude are all great circles.

The body is ringed, and often has circles of spines, which are continued into the slightly protrusible pharynx.

His family was known among judicial circles in the 16th century, and maintained the Roman Catholic faith after the official introduction of the Reformed religion into Navarre.