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Meaning circle meaning

What does circle mean?
Definitions in simple English

circle Noun

— A circle is a round shape. Please put your chairs in a circle. The dog was running in circles.

circle Verb

— To circle something is to move around it. The earth circles the sun once a year. Using your pencil, please circle the correct answer.

circle

— noun 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 he calculated the circumference of the circle — noun (= set, lot) an unofficial association of people or groups the smart set goes there they were an angry lot — verb travel around something circle the globe — verb move in circles — noun something approximating the shape of a circle the chairs were arranged in a circle — noun (= lap) movement once around a course he drove an extra lap just for insurance — noun any circular or rotating mechanism the machine punched out metal circles — noun (= dress circle) a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra they had excellent seats in the dress circle — noun (= rotary) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary — verb (= encircle) form a circle around encircle the errors — noun (= R-2) street names for flunitrazepan

Synonyms circle synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as circle?

circle English » English

ring round surround sphere disk circumference wheel loop orbit circulate revolve go around encircle rotate hoop go round cycle society set move around group field disc club ball turn enclose circuit traffic circle spiral roundabout rotation orb flock compass band area swarm study group skirt round shape rotary rophy rope roofy roach precinct lap forget me drug curve

Topics circle topics

What do people use circle to talk about?
States Quality Shape

Round
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move in a circle

Conjugation circle conjugation

How do you conjugate circle?

circle · verb

Examples circle examples

How do I use circle in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It no longer seems to be a perfect circle.
We grew up within our family circle.
Draw a circle.
Our math teacher drew a circle on the blackboard.
We formed a circle around the teacher.
Make a circle and hold hands.
He widened his small circle of friends.
The result of dividing the circumference of a circle by its diameter is equal to pi.
This circle was drawn by a compass.
Tom wasn't wearing a wedding ring, but Mary noticed a white circle on his ring finger.
God is a circle whose circumference is a straight line.
The answer leads us to a vicious circle.
Cape Dezhnev is 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
In my circle of friends there are two people who are professional singers.
Draw a small circle.
Please circle the right answer.
Let's make a big circle.
In English class, sometimes we sit in a circle to talk about a book we are reading.
I drew a circle with compasses.
It is difficult to break the vicious circle of wages and prices.
They set up a pole at the center of the circle.
It's a vicious circle.

Movie subtitles

So basically, it's Chink to Chink, circle of life.
He's got that sewing circle wrapped around his little finger.
Mrs Marlowe and her sewing circle have created a replica suit to the one of Evan's.
The combatants of the two opposite factions ceased all hostilities instantly, and went on to build a formidable defensive perimeter in a perfect circle of 30 kilometers around the plateau located right in the middle of Daskasan.
Perhaps those among us tonight for the first time,...and not yet initiated into the mysteries...of the First Circle of the Seventh Old Ray,...may be wondering what is going to happen now.
Merely place him or herself under the guidance of the Fourth Circle.
Will all those who are not of the Fourth Circle please leave as quietly as possible?
Perhaps you would care to join our little circle now, Mr Lawrence?
Well, it's time for the triangle to retire from family circle.
I'II circle them and come in on the other side.
AII right, I'II head 'em off, and you circle 'em.
Circle-0500.
A PGA has two black dots, and a CrowFlight has a circle.
It's a circle.
That's Columbus Circle.
It's a vicious circle, my friends, and the only place to cure it is right here at the source.
Help Jones and you help the whole circle.
Perhaps those who may be among us tonight for the first time. and who have not yet become initiated into the mysteries. of the First Circle of the Seventh Old Ray. may be wondering what is going to happen now.
Merely place him- or herself under the guidance of the Fourth Circle.
Will all those who are not of the Fourth Circle. please leave as quietly as possible?
Perhaps you would care to join our little circle now, Mr. Lawrence. - Yes? - Thank you very much.
Times Square and Columbus Circle.
You won't get hurt so much if you circle to the left away from his right.
I've come full circle.
But within the family circle.
But he's gone. Times Square and Columbus Circle.
See this yellow circle. that marks off the playing area?
I've got a circle too.
We must have gone in a circle.
Why do snails, the coldest of all creatures. circle interminably around each other?
Develop your practice cultivate the circle in which you and Beatrix shall move.
Circle about and pick them up.
We should circle like this.
Join hands, circle left.
Now weave a basket. Circle left.
La ronde has come full circle.
Well, they can't build anything like that unless they know how to make a wheel. That means a circle.

News and current affairs

It's a vicious circle, technically known as a poverty trap.
That this happens to ordinary Russians is clear; what Cherkesov revealed was that Putin's circle also confronts this situation.
It is a vicious circle, but where and why did it start?
Churches will ring bells 350 times, 350 cyclists will circle towns, and, in many places, 350 trees will be planted.
Worse, seldom is it explained how to square the circle.
The obvious way to square this circle is to spend more on imports.
Much of the poor majority of the world is mired in a vicious circle of disease, poverty, and political instability.
Perhaps the release of these two very different films will lead to a further push to bring great apes within the circle of beings with moral and legal rights.
Radical Islamic groups have engaged in indiscriminate bombings, while groups with strong authoritarian tendencies have made inroads into President Megawati's inner circle.
If the Constitution is rejected, the British, having chosen to stay out of that grouping, may find that they have maneuvered themselves into an even more remote outer circle of Europe.
The first is simple incompetence: Bush and his inner circle simply do not understand the magnitude and importance of the federal government's other fiscal problems.
Thus, the contagion went well beyond the torturers' limited circle.
Indeed, China is now locked in a vicious economic circle, sustained by seemingly unrelated distortionary policies that are, in fact, deeply interconnected, even symbiotic.
George W. Bush has shown the dangers of excessive secrecy and confining decision-making to a narrow circle of sycophants.
And the answer brings us back, full circle, to where we started, namely to US fiscal policy.
NEW YORK - A vicious circle is currently underway in the United States, and its reach could broaden to the global economy.
In fact, new models to square the circle of economic growth, social cohesion, and political liberty may be emerging in some of the countries that have grasped the mantle of globalization.
That will not be easy; in fact, it could amount to trying to square a circle.
Venezuela 's circle of friends in the region is shrinking.

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