circle | (noun) movement once around a course | Synonyms: circuit, lap |
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(noun) any circular or rotating mechanism | Synonyms: round |
(noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: rotary, roundabout, traffic circle |
(noun) a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra | Synonyms: dress circle |
(noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roach, roofy, rope, rophy |
(noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: band, lot, set |
(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 | - |
(noun) something approximating the shape of a circle | - |
circlet | (noun) decorated metal band worn around the head | - |
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(noun) a small circle | - |
circuit | (noun) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area | Synonyms: tour |
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(noun) movement once around a course | Synonyms: circle, lap |
(noun) an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow | Synonyms: electric circuit, electrical circuit |
(noun) a racetrack for automobile races | Synonyms: racing circuit |
(noun) (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals | - |
(noun) an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to | - |
(noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circumference |
circuitousness | (noun) The state of being roundabout, indirect or not to the point. | - |
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circuitry | (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits | - |
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circular | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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circularisation | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularization |
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circularity | (noun) the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure | Synonyms: disk shape |
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circularization | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularisation |
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circulation | (noun) the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area | - |
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(noun) the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines) | - |
(noun) free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant) | - |
(noun) movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels | - |
(noun) number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold | - |
(noun) (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period | - |
circumcision | (noun) the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males | - |
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(noun) the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite | - |
circumduction | (noun) a circular movement of a limb or eye | - |
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circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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(noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
(noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
circumflex | (noun) a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality | - |
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circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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(noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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(noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |
circumstance | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: condition, consideration |
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(noun) formal ceremony about important occasions | - |
(noun) a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity | - |
(noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: context, setting |
circumstances | (noun) a person's financial situation (good or bad) | - |
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(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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circumvolution | (noun) the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis | - |
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circus | (noun) a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals | - |
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(noun) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment | Synonyms: carnival |
(noun) an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent | - |
(noun) (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games | - |
(noun) a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals | - |
cirio | (noun) candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers | Synonyms: boojum tree, Fouquieria columnaris, Idria columnaris |
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cirque | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: corrie, cwm |
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cirrhosis | (noun) a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism | Synonyms: cirrhosis of the liver |
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cirrhus | (noun) usually coiled | Synonyms: cirrus |
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cirriped | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirripede |
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cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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cirrocumulus | (noun) a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples | Synonyms: cirrocumulus cloud |
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cirrostratus | (noun) a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude | Synonyms: cirrostratus cloud |
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cirrus | (noun) a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile | - |
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(noun) a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles) | Synonyms: cirrus cloud |
(noun) usually coiled | Synonyms: cirrhus |