circadian | (adjective) of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals | - |
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circinate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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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 | - |
(verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: encircle |
(verb) move in a circular path above (someone or something) | - |
(verb) travel around something | - |
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 |
(verb) make a circuit | - |
circuitous | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: devious, roundabout |
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(adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: roundabout |
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 | (adjective) having the shape or form of a circle | Synonyms: round |
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(adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: orbitual, rotary |
(noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
circularisation | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularization |
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circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
(verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
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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circularize | (verb) make circular | - |
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(verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
(verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularise |
(verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularise |
(verb) canvass by using a questionnaire | - |
circularly | (adverb) in a circular manner | - |
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circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
(verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
(verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
(verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
(verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
circulating | (adjective) passing from one to another | - |
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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 | - |
circulative | (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulatory |
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circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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circumboreal | (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: boreal |
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circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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(verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
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 |
circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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circumflex | (noun) a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality | - |
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circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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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 |
circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
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(adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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(verb) draw a line around | - |
(verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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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 |
circumspectly | (adverb) in a cagey manner | Synonyms: cagily |
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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 |
circumstantial | (adjective) fully detailed and specific about particulars | - |
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circumstantially | (adverb) insofar as the circumstances are concerned | - |
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(adverb) without advance planning | Synonyms: accidentally, by chance, unexpectedly |
(adverb) in minute detail | Synonyms: minutely |
(adverb) according to circumstances | - |
circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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circumvolution | (noun) the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis | - |
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circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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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 |