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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yard, garden of building |
| Synonyms: | cloister, close, compass, courtyard, curtilage, enclosure, forum, patio, piazza, plaza, quad, quadrangle, square, street |
| Main Entry: | curved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bowed, bent |
| Synonyms: | S-shaped, arced, arched, arciform, arrondi, biflected, circular, compass, crooked, curly, curvaceous, curvilinear, declinate, elliptical, enbowed, humped, incurvate, incurved, looped, loopy, round, rounded, serpentine, sigmoid, sinuous, skewed, snaky, sweeping, swirly, turned, twisted, twisting, twisty, wreathed |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | define |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delimit, outline |
| Synonyms: | belt, border, bound, circumscribe, compass, confine, curb, delineate, demarcate, distinguish, edge, encircle, enclose, encompass, envelop, establish, fence in, fix, flank, gird, girdle, limit, mark, mark out, rim, set, set bounds to, settle, stake out, surround, verge, wall in |
| Main Entry: | degree |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recognition of achievement; rank or grade of position |
| Synonyms: | approbation, approval, baccalaureate, caliber, class, compass, credentials, credit, dignification, dignity, distinction, eminence, grade, height, honor, level, magnitude, order, pitch, point, position, potency, qualification, quality, quantity, range, rank, reach, scope, sheepskin, shingle, sort, stage, standard, standing, station, status, strength, testimonial, testimony |
| Main Entry: | dimensions/dimension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proportions; range |
| Synonyms: | admeasurement, ambit, amplitude, bigness, bulk, capacity, compass, depth, dimensionality, extension, extensity, extent, greatness, height, importance, largeness, length, magnitude, measure, measurement, reach, scale, scope, size, volume, width |
| Main Entry: | distance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval, range |
| Synonyms: | absence, ambit, amplitude, area, bit, breadth, compass, country mile, expanse, extension, extent, far piece, farness, gap, good ways, heavens, hinterland, horizon, lapse, length, objective, orbit, outpost, outskirts, provinces, purlieu, purview, radius, reach, remoteness, remove, scope, separation, size, sky, space, span, spread, stretch, sweep, way, width |
| Main Entry: | encircle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | circumscribe |
| Synonyms: | band, begird, cincture, circle, circuit, compass, cover, enclose, encompass, enfold, enring, envelop, environ, gird in, girdle, halo, hem in, inclose, invest, ring, surround, wreathe |
| Antonyms: | let go, unloose |
| Main Entry: | encompass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surround, circumscribe |
| Synonyms: | beset, circle, compass, encircle, enclose, envelop, environ, gird, girdle, hem in, ring |
| Main Entry: | environs |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborhood |
| Synonyms: | bound, boundary, compass, confine, district, fringes, limits, locality, outskirts, precinct, purlieus, suburb, surroundings, territory, turf, vicinity |
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