circle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.
Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
Latin circus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin circulus
Old French cerclebor.
Middle English circle
English circle
From Middle English circle, cercle, from Old French cercle and Latin circulus, diminutive of Latin circus (“circle, circus”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to Old English hring (“ring”). Compare also Old English ċircul (“circle, zodiac”), which came from the same Latin source. By surface analysis, Latin circ(us) + -(u)le.
Inflected forms:
form: circles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: circles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: circling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: circled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: circled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
pos: noun
examples: The set of all points (x, y) such that (x − 1)² + y² = r² is a circle of radius r around the point (1, 0).
gloss: A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Near-synonyms: coil, ring, loop
gloss: Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
pos: noun
examples: Children, please join hands and form a circle.
gloss: Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
pos: noun
examples: Cut a circle out of that sheet of metal.
gloss: Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
pos: noun
examples: The crank moves in a circle.
gloss: A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
pos: noun
examples: inner circle
circle of friends
literary circle
As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened.
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.
gloss: A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
gloss: The orbit of an astronomical body.
pos: noun
gloss: A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
pos: noun
gloss: A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
pos: noun
gloss: A traffic circle or roundabout.
pos: noun
tags: Dundee
India
Philippines
South-Africa
examples: He arrived at the lakefront and drove around the circle where the amusement park and beach used to be when he was a kid[…]
gloss: Compass; circuit; enclosure.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: in the circle of this forest
gloss: An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
pos: noun
gloss: A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
pos: noun
examples: Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain.
gloss: A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
pos: noun
examples: That heavy Bodies deſcend by gravity, is no better an account then we might expect from a Ruſtick: and again; that Gravity is a quality whereby an heavy body deſcends, is an impertinent Circle, and teacheth nothing.
gloss: A territorial division or district.
pos: noun
examples: The ten Circles of the Holy Roman Empire were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet.
gloss: A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: After working all night, she had circles under her eyes.
gloss: An event at which circling takes place.
pos: noun
gloss: To travel around along a curved path.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The wolves circled the herd of deer.
Other planets circle other suns.
gloss: To surround.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A high fence circles the enclosure.
Their heads are circled with a short turban.
So he lies, circled with evil.
gloss: To place or mark a circle around.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for.
gloss: To travel in circles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Vultures circled overhead.
gloss: To take part in a magic circle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I circled with that group for three years.
gloss: To participate in a game of circling.
pos: verb
Related words: circular
circulate
circus
Derived words: Antarctic Circle
Apollonian circle
Arctic Circle
arctic circle
azimuth circle
babysitting circle
Bevan circle
blood circle
blue circle rate
bolt circle
Brocard circle
Carlyle circle
Cartesian circle
center circle
centre circle
circle-A
circle back
circle changeup
circle contact lens
circle dance
circle-ellipse problem
circle game
circle gets the square
circle group
circle inversion
circle-ish
circle-jerk
circlejerk
circle jerk
circle jerker
circle lens
circlelike
circle marriage
circleness
circle of antisimilitude
circle of Apollonius
circle of fifths
circle of friends
circle of life
circle of the gorge
circle of Willis
circle pit
circle progression
circler
circle runner
circle sector
circle segment
circle sentence
circle sentencing
circle skirt
circle strafe
circle-strafe
circle time
Circleville
circlewise
circley
circline
circlip
circlish
circloid
circulene
circuline
circumcircle
circumscribed circle
come full circle
corn circle
count circle
crop circle
datum circle
declination circle
demicircle
director circle
doujin circle
dress circle
druid's circle
Dupont Circle
e-circle
elf circle
encircle
equinoctial circle
excircle
face-off circle
fairy circle
family circle
Fermat-Apollonius circle
fielding circle
Ford circle
full circle
generalised circle
generalized circle
gorge circle
great circle
great-circle arc
great circle arc
great circle route
green circle
gyrocircle
Hardy-Littlewood circle method
hemicircle
hermeneutic circle
hour circle
hut circle
ice circle
imperial circle
incircle
inner circle
inscribed circle
intercircle
Knight of the Golden Circle
Lufbery circle
magic circle
Malfatti circle
math circle
maxicircle
megacircle
midcircle
minicircle
Mohr's circle
moral circle
mosh circle
mural circle
nine-point circle
nine points circle
oblique circle
on deck circle
orthoptic circle
orthotomic circle
osculating circle
parhelic circle
parquet circle
perfect circle
photon circle
polar circle
polygon-circle graph
prayer circle
pseudocircle
quadrature of the circle
quality circle
quarter circle
quasicircle
recircle
red circle rate
reflecting circle
rescue circle
semi-circle
sewing circle
shooting circle
small circle
social circle
speak in circles
Spieker circle
square circle
squared circle
square the circle
squircle
stone circle
study circle
subcircle
supercircle
swing round the circle
talking circle
timber circle
time is a flat circle
turning circle
unit circle
upper circle
Valeriepieris circle
vertical circle
vicious circle
vicious circle principle
virtuous circle
watch circle
Willis circle
winner's circle
circle in
circle out
circle the drain
circle the field
circle the wagons
circle up
the vultures are circling
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: حَلْقَة
roman: ḥalqa
lang: Armenian
word: շրջապատ
roman: šrǰapat
lang: Armenian
word: խմբակ
roman: xmbak
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dərnək
lang: Breton
word: kelc'h
lang: Bulgarian
word: кръг
roman: krǎg
lang: Bulgarian
word: кръжец
roman: krǎžec
lang: Catalan
word: penya
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 圈子
roman: quānzi
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: tögerek
lang: Czech
word: kruh
lang: Czech
word: kroužek
lang: Dalmatian
word: circol
lang: Danish
word: kreds
lang: Dutch
word: kring
lang: Dutch
word: groep
lang: Esperanto
word: rondo
lang: Finnish
word: piiri
lang: Georgian
word: წრე
roman: c̣re
lang: German
word: Kreis
lang: German
word: Zirkel
lang: Greek
word: κύκλος
roman: kýklos
lang: Hawaiian
word: pōhai
lang: Hawaiian
word: pōʻai
lang: Hebrew
word: חוג
roman: khug
lang: Italian
word: circolo
lang: Italian
word: gruppo
lang: Italian
word: cenacolo
lang: Italian
word: congrega
lang: Italian
word: associazione
lang: Japanese
word: サークル
roman: sākuru
lang: Korean
word: 서클
roman: seokeul
lang: Latin
word: corona
lang: Latvian
word: loks
lang: Malayalam
word: വൃത്തം
roman: vr̥ttaṁ
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: krets
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: krins
lang: Pashto
word: حلقه
roman: halqá
lang: Persian
word: جرگه
roman: jerge
lang: Polish
word: krąg
lang: Polish
word: koło
lang: Portuguese
word: círculo
lang: Russian
word: круг
roman: krug
lang: Russian
word: кружо́к
roman: kružók
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: còmhlan
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cearcall
lang: Slovene
word: krog
lang: Spanish
word: círculo
lang: Spanish
word: grupo
lang: Spanish
word: tertulia
lang: Spanish
word: mundillo
lang: Swedish
word: krets
lang: Thai
word: วง
roman: wong
lang: Thai
word: แวดวง
roman: wɛ̂ɛt-wong
lang: Thai
word: วงการ
roman: wong-gaan
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: جمعیت
roman: cemʼiyet
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: انجمن
roman: encümen
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: محفل
roman: mahfil
lang: Urdu
word: حلقہ
roman: halqa
lang: Uyghur
word: كۇرۇژوك
roman: kuruzhok
lang: Uzbek
word: krujok
lang: Uzbek
word: toʻgarak
lang: Welsh
word: cylch
lang: Zazaki
word: helqa (diq)
lang: Zazaki
word: çalani (diq)