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circuited
[sur-kit] 
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circle
[sur-kuhl]
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| 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 |
| Main Entry: | journey |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | travel |
| Synonyms: | circuit, cruise, fare, fly, globe trot, go, go places, hie, hop, jaunt, jet, junket, knock about, pass, peregrinate, proceed, process, push on, ramble, range, repair, roam, rove, safari, take a trip, tour, traverse, trek, voyage, wander, wend |
| Antonyms: | stay, wait |
| Main Entry: | wired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | connected |
| Synonyms: | cabled, circuited, hooked up, lined |
| Main Entry: | peregrinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | journey |
| Synonyms: | circuit, cruise, fare, fly*, globe trot, go places, go*, hie, hit the road, hop, jaunt, jet, junket, knock about, pass, proceed, process, push on, ramble, range, repair, roam, rove, safari, take a trip, tour, travel, traverse, trek, trip*, voyage, wander, wend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | circle |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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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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| Concept: | [Locomotion by land] Journey. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
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-nouns
travel; traveling wayfaring, campaigning., journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog, trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt., equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie; basophobia., roving, vagrancy, pererration; marching and countermarching; nomadism; vagabondism, vagabondage; hoboism [U.S.]; gadding; flit, flitting, migration; emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration; wanderlust., plan, itinerary, guide; handbook, roadbook; Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray., procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column., [Organs and instruments of locomotion] vehicle [more]; automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters., traveler., depot [U.S.], railway station, station.
-verbs
travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk, go out for walk; have a run; take the air; racewalk., flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate., walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path., take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole; gallop (move quickly)., peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile., go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.
-adjectives
traveling; ambulatory, intinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, nomadic; circumforanean, circumforaneous; noctivagrant, mundivagrant; locomotive., wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained.
-adverbs
on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare; by the Marrowbone stage:, in transitu; en route.
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