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Circle   /sˈərkəl/   Listen
Circle

noun
1.
Ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point.
2.
An unofficial association of people or groups.  Synonyms: band, lot, set.  "They were an angry lot"
3.
Something approximating the shape of a circle.
4.
Movement once around a course.  Synonyms: circuit, lap.
5.
A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.  Synonyms: rotary, roundabout, traffic circle.
6.
Street names for flunitrazepan.  Synonyms: forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roach, roofy, rope, rophy.
7.
A curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra.  Synonym: dress circle.
8.
Any circular or rotating mechanism.  Synonym: round.
verb
(past & past part. circled; pres. part. circling)
1.
Travel around something.
2.
Move in circles.  Synonym: circulate.
3.
Form a circle around.  Synonym: encircle.



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"Circle" Quotes from Famous Books



... chosen, a circle was formed round the bonfire, the men holding their partners tightly by the hand. Faster and faster flew the circle till the masked faces shewed like a black band, while the outside throng of people cheered and clapped, and encouraged the dancers to madder whirling. Then, ...
— Where Deep Seas Moan • E. Gallienne-Robin
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... took place at that visit, but she came back with a bright red circle in each cheek and her head very high, and spent all the evening in the nursery. Alone, of course, for I heard little quick sounds on the piano in the drawing-room, and the fairy books were gone from the children's book-shelves, and Margaret ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
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... the alert. In the rougher States of the Southwest abolitionists were tarred and feathered. Some were shot. In all the States Union men were warned to keep quiet or leave the South. One of the most powerful agents of intimidation was the Knights of the Golden Circle, a vast secret society which ...
— History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews
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... the place where the people had assembled to hear me preach. In a large circle men and women sat upon the dry red grass. Within the ring I stood, with the white man's Bible in my hand. I tried to tell them of ...
— American Indian stories • Zitkala-Sa
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... lands but the one in which he lived unconsciously—the Land of Tenderness. This is the pity of his life and it is also its indignity. He was crueler than "the Cruelty of Things." He "threw away a pearl richer than all his tribe"—a woman's heart. But—how we argue in a circle!—that he, with his fine vision could not see this, is perhaps, a justification of his poem's bitterness. Even her service went for naught, seeing it brought no return ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
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