circular
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English circuler, circuleer, circulere, from Old French circulier (French circulaire), from Late Latin circularis, from Latin circulus, diminutive of circus (“ring”). By surface analysis, circle + -ar.
Inflected forms:
form: more circular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most circular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: circulars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: circularing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: circulared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: circulared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a circle.
pos: adj
gloss: In the shape of, or moving in, a circle.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: oval; round; toroid, ringlike, round-like
Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
gloss: Circuitous or roundabout.
pos: adj
gloss: Referring back to itself, so as to prevent computation or comprehension; infinitely recursive.
pos: adj
examples: circular reasoning
Your dictionary defines "brave" as "courageous", and "courageous" as "brave". That's a circular definition.
a circular formula in a spreadsheet
It must be conceded that this definition (the definition of tort) is somewhat circular, but it is the only one that will suffice.
gloss: Distributed to a large number of persons.
pos: adj
examples: a proclamation of Henry III., […] doubtless circular throughout England
gloss: Perfect; complete.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: A man so absolute and circular / In all those wished-for rarities that may take / A virgin captive.
gloss: Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: February 1, 1711, John Dennis, on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare
Had Virgil been a circular poet, and closely adhered to history, how could the Romans have had Dido?
gloss: To distribute circulars to or at.
pos: verb
examples: The result of the sending of these notices confirms me in the opinion, that it will be necessary to adopt legal means with the great majority of these parties. The circulars have had little effect. In fact, the parties have been “circulared" into the notion that nothing more formidable will ever be sent to them.
It is true, that, to obtain these, some six hundred or more institutions were circulared, and a good many of these a second time.
I do not mean to say we have never employed some of them who come to us—but we have never circulared agents or gone after them.
If you've ever been circulared by drug repackaging houses, you know they usually offer to trade a selection of office supplies for your unused drug samples.
gloss: To extend in a circular direction.
pos: verb
examples: The theme can be expressed in an architectural analogy. For, of all contriving to encover space, the arch — alone or 'circulared' into the dome — is the most ingenious.
Synonyms: annular
circular
cyclic
discoid
round
rounded
Antonyms: sharp
square
thin
Related words: circle
circular file
circular firing squad
circular saw
Derived words: anticircular
bicircular
circular angle
circular arc
circular argument
circular breathing
circular buffer
circular cone
circular dichroism
circular economy
circular fashion
circular file
circular filing cabinet
circular function
circular graph
Circular Head
circularin
circularise
circularism
circularity
circularization
circularize
circular knitting
circularly
circular mil
circular needle
circularness
circular note
circular parry
circular polarized light
circular queue
circular reference
circular sector
circular segment
circular state
circular telegram
circularwise
cocircular
court circular
demicircular
hemicircular
innermost stable circular orbit
maxicircular
metacircular
meta-circular
microcircular
minicircular
near-circular
noncircular
quasicircular
semicircular
semi-circular
squircular
subcircular
supercircular
tricircular
uncircular
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