Results for circle
Definitions of circle:
part of speech: noun
A round body; a plane surface bounded by a single curved line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center; the closed plane curve bounding such a surface; a number of persons or things united by a common bond; something round, as a group of seats in a theater.
part of speech: verb transitive
To surround.
part of speech: noun
A figure contained by a single curved line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre; a ring; any round body; the compass or circuit of anything or place; a sphere or station in society; a number of persons, as a circle of friends; a series ending where it begins.
part of speech: verb
To move round; to encompass; to surround or enclose; to keep together.
part of speech: verb intransitive
Usage examples for circle:
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The words did not please Mrs. Dare, who had then joined the circle
"Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles", Mrs. Henry Wood -
So now we enter a circle in which we never moved before, and we are not of it.
"The Mountain Girl", Payne Erskine -
She was within a circle of pleasure, he outside.
"Castle Craneycrow", George Barr McCutcheon