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Main Entry:	circle [sur-kuhl] Show IPA/ˈsɜrkəl/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	orb, loop, round figure
Synonyms:	amphitheater, aureole, band, belt, bowl, bracelet, circlet, circuit, circumference, circus, cirque, coil, colure, compass, cordon, corona, crown, cycle, disc, disk, ecliptic, enclosure, equator, full turn, globe, halo, hoop, horizon, lap, meridian, orbit, parallel of latitude, perimeter, periphery, record, revolution, ring, ringlet, round, sphere, stadium, tire, turn, vortex, wheel, wreath, zodiac

Main Entry:	circle
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	go around, circumnavigate
Synonyms:	begird, belt, cincture, circuit, circulate, circumduct, circumscribe, coil, compass, curve, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, ensphere, envelop, gird, girdle, gyrate, gyre, hem in, loop, mill around, pivot, revolve, ring, roll, rotate, round, spiral, surround, tour, wheel, whirl, wind about

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Main Entry:	circle
Part of Speech:	noun, verb
Related Adjectives:	annular, bead-like, bell-shaped, belted, bulbiform, bulbous, campaniform, campaniliform, campanulate, circinate, circular, circumrotatory, columnar, conic, conical, coniform, cycloidal, cyclostomate, cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid, egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, full-orbed, fungiform, gibbous, gimmal, globated, globose, globous, globular, guttiform, gyratory, knobbed, lobed, lumbriciform, molendinaceous, moniliform, obconic, obrotund, ooid, orbicular, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, ovopyriform, pear-shaped, penannular, peristrephic, pyriform, ringed, rotary, rotating, rotatory, rotund, round, rounded, spherical, spheroidal, stobic, strobic, strombuliform, trochiform, trochilic, vertiginous, vortical, vorticose

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Example Sentences

The opportunity to support their friends' projects with small amounts brings recent graduates into the giving circle.

Few of those arrested last week were known outside their circle.

We don't actually see the full circle because the earth gets in the way.

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The opportunity to support their friends' projects with small amounts brings recent graduates into the giving circle.

Few of those arrested last week were known outside their circle.

We don't actually see the full circle because the earth gets in the way.

To watch out for predators-such as leopards, pythons, servals and birds-rock hyraxes will form a circle.

Think of the possible uses for this circle of bricks.

Giant planets with wonky orbits mostly circle blistering-hot stars, two new studies find.

Talk is of a virtuous circle in which growth feeds expertise, which feeds investment.

Before putting, everyone also was asked to draw a circle the size of the hole.

They group together and circle the snake, which ever ones are behind it bite at it.

Center the cutout circle over each pot and trace its outline.

The acceleration that goes along with this force is the acceleration of an object moving in a circle.

It lets users build their own social networks for each circle of friends.

Recent events suggest that the circle continues to get tighter and tighter.

Now suppose someone plops a traffic circle in the center of the grid.

Punch circles out of card stock with a circle craft punch.

There is a force acting on the rock to make it move in a circle.

Some think that the regime's ageing inner circle might prefer to back a more seasoned figure from their own ranks.

At some point a tighter circle will mean giving up a wagon or two.

One stem at a time, place the cuttings inside the dowel circle.

Open it in paint or any image editor and you'll see the first frame, and its missing a circle.

Hypothesis suggests experiment and experiment hypothesis in a never-ending virtuous circle.

The cool grooming circle is over by the baobab tree.

After a day of hiking or riding, circle around a campfire for dinner with fellow pack-trippers.

Facebook gives you quite a bit of say over who in your circle sees what.

In this case, one might consider that a square can be a model for a circle.

Each of the circles flanking the central circle should have a small hole in the middle.

Dig a shallow basin and set in the rhizomes, leaf fans pointing out, in a circle.

Here is the location of the two points on a circle that is centered at the origin.

Applicants outside this charmed circle might have less chance of favourable consideration.

Despite decades of earnest searches, astronomers had no direct evidence that planets circle other stars.

It's much easier to roll dough into a circle if you work from the center out to the edge in all directions.

When you're ready to publish, you tap that circle icon to see all your shared items.

Last week brought the first casualties in the president's inner circle.

First, participants reclined and arranged themselves in a circle or square.

Skaters circle a section of ice set against a backdrop of pine-covered rolling hills.

Move to open space if possible and circle so the dog has to approach you from the front.

Try a few bulbs in a circle around the base of a deciduous tree.

Some stem cells stop differentiating and enter a kind of on-deck circle to await further instruction.

The basic idea is to take a bucket of water and swing it around in a circle over your head.

They will form a circle and dip in unison to catch tiny white charales.

My cabbie plunges into the grand traffic circle where a dozen.

The middle of the table depicts the seven deadly sins in a circle.

As the sardines panicked and moved faster, they formed a great silvery circle.

For the small circle of selected female students with.

At the center of the garden is a circle of gravel, framed in brick.

If the charmed circle itself were racially unrepresentative.

Next to the village there was a giant wooden version of the famous stone circle.

On the face of it, immigration reform would seem the easier circle to square:.

Then circle the letter in front of the question that goes with each answer.

Better technologies can square the circle of economic growth with sustainability.

Streets that branch off the main ones often only go so far and stop or circle back down as if the town is a bowl.

Everyone knows the steps, and they invite members of the crowd to enter the circle.

Welcome or not, dying is a natural part of the circle of life.

When pieced together it forms an elaborate inner circle comprised of five pieces surrounded by an outer circle of eleven pieces.

Decomposed granite paths circle the fountain, and a sandstone path leads to.

Remember that migration is the circle of life and not every creature makes the full circle.

If such person may live with family or in friend circle he is till lonely.

Spread the batter with the back of the spoon until it makes a thin circle three inches across.

Conversations about late-season color in the mixed border usually circle around the usual suspects: mums and dahlias.

Drag the symbol into the circle to see if you're right.

First, he has to deal with infighting in his circle.

Spread another circle of batter on the pan in the same way.

Modern agriculture seems locked in a vicious circle of pollinator destruction.

It's easy to forget that every link is a human relationship and every circle a waistline.

Poke a hole through the center of the circle and tape it over one end of the tube.

Curtiss made another flight, at the end of which he turned practically a complete circle.

Also, it is accelerating because it is moving in a circle.

When people think that inflation will stay low, price-setters and wage-negotiators act accordingly, creating a virtuous circle.

Tack down the poster board and draw a circle around the plunger to ensure they remain in place.

The rodents pick up toxoplasma from feline droppings, thereby completing the circle for the parasite.

One creature's discards are another's dinner, and so continues the circle of life.

Most of these satellites circle only a few hundred kilometres above the planet's solid surface.

Its also full circle recyclable needs no fertilizers and barley any water so it cause grow almost anywhere.

Draw a circle in the center and then five lines from the center to the corners to create five isosceles triangles.

But the new theory offers a way to break the circle.

Since potential danger is likely to come from the outside of the circle it is likely the waking half is at the outside.

Stopovers, open jaws, circle trips or frequent traveler mileages are not permitted.

Sometimes we're posting before the link is available and it's hard to remember to circle back.

Enemy planes circle overhead, looking to take out satellite installations at your base.

The face is open, a circle with a cross in its center.

COLLAPSE

Main Entry:	academy
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	society or institution interested in learning
Synonyms:	alliance, association, circle, council, federation, foundation, fraternity, institute, league

Main Entry:	association
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	group with common interest or pursuit
Synonyms:	affiliation, alliance, band, bunch, circle, clan, clique, club, coalition, combination, combo, company, confederacy, confederation, congress, cooperative, corporation, crew, crowd, family, federation, fellowship, fraternity, gang, guild, hookup, league, mob, order, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, rat pack, ring, society, sodality, sorority, syndicate, tie-in, tie-up, tribe, troops, troupe, union, zoo

Main Entry:	band
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	something which encircles
Synonyms:	bandage, bandeau, belt, binding, bond, braid, cable, chain, circle, circuit, copula, cord, fillet, harness, hoop, ligature, line, link, manacle, ribbon, ring, rope, sash, scarf, shackle, snood, stay, strap, string, strip, tape, tie, truss

Main Entry:	bend
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	form or cause a curve
Synonyms:	angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag
Antonyms:	straighten

Main Entry:	beset
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	plague; hem in
Synonyms:	aggress, assail, attack, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, besiege, bug, circle, compass, dog*, drive up the wall, embarrass, encircle, enclose, encompass, entangle, environ, fall on, fall upon, girdle, give a bad time, give a hard time, give one the business, give the needle, harass, harry, hassle, infest, invade, jump on one's case, nag, nudge, overrun, perplex, pester, pick on, put the squeeze on, ride, ring, start in on, storm, strike, surround

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	bosom
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	heart; core
Synonyms:	affections, center, circle, conscience, emotions, feelings, inside, interior, sentiments, soul, spirit, sympathies
Antonyms:	exteriority, outside

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