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Circle
circle
(circles, circling, circled) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area. The flag was red, with a large white circle in the center... I wrote down the number 46 and drew a circle around it. = ring N-COUNT 2. A circle of something is a round flat piece or area of it. Cut out 4 circles of pastry. ...a circle of yellow light. = ring N-COUNT: usu N of n 3. A circle of objects or people is a group of them arranged in the shape of a circle. The monument consists of a circle of gigantic stones... We stood in a circle holding hands. = ring N-COUNT: oft N of n 4. If something circles an object or a place, or circles around it, it forms a circle around it. This is the ring road that circles the city. ...the long curving driveway that circled around the vast clipped lawn. = encircle VERB: V n, V around/round n 5. If an aircraft or a bird circles or circles something, it moves round in a circle in the air. The plane circled, awaiting permission to land... There were two helicopters circling around. ...like a hawk circling prey. VERB: V, V adv/prep, V n 6. To circle around someone or something, or to circle them, means to move around them. Emily kept circling around her mother... The silent wolves would track and circle them. VERB: V around/round n, V n 7. If you circle something on a piece of paper, you draw a circle around it. Circle the correct answers on the coupon below. = ring VERB: V n 8. You can refer to a group of people as a circle when they meet each other regularly because they are friends or because they belong to the same profession or share the same interests. He has a small circle of friends... Alton has made himself fiercely unpopular in certain circles. N-COUNT: with supp 9. In a theatre or cinema, the circle is an area of seats on the upper floor. N-SING: the N 10. see also Arctic Circle, dress circle, inner circle, vicious circle, virtuous circle 11. If you say that you have come full circle or have turned full circle, you mean that after a long series of events or changes the same situation that you started with still exists. We’ve come full circle and dark-blue jeans are once again the height of style. PHRASE: V inflects
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English cercle, from Anglo-French, from Latin circulus, diminutive of circus ~, circus, from or akin to Greek krikos, kirkos ring; akin to Old English hring ring — more at ring Date: 14th century 1. a. ring, halo b. a closed plane curve every point of which is equidistant from a fixed point within the curve c. the plane surface bounded by such a curve 2. archaic the orbit of a celestial body 3. something in the form of a ~ or section of a ~: as a. diadem b. an instrument of astronomical observation the graduated limb of which consists of an entire ~ c. a balcony or tier of seats in a theater d. a ~ formed on the surface of a sphere by the intersection of a plane that passes through it ~ of latitude e. rotary 2 4. an area of action or influence ; realm 5. a. cycle, round the wheel has come full ~ b. fallacious reasoning in which something to be demonstrated is covertly assumed 6. a group of persons sharing a common interest or revolving about a common center the sewing ~ of her church family ~ the gossip of court ~s 7. a territorial or administrative division or district 8. a curving side street II. verb (~d; circling) Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to enclose in or as if in a ~ 2. to move or revolve around satellites circling the earth intransitive verb 1. a. to move in or as if in a ~ b. circulate 2. to describe or extend in a ~ • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a a round plane figure whose circumference is everywhere equidistant from its centre. b the line enclosing a circle. 2 a roundish enclosure or structure. 3 a ring. 4 a curved upper tier of seats in a theatre etc. (dress circle). 5 a circular route. 6 Archaeol. a group of (usu. large embedded) stones arranged in a circle. 7 Hockey = striking-circle. 8 persons grouped round a centre of interest. 9 a set or class or restricted group (literary circles; not done in the best circles). 10 a period or cycle (the circle of the year). 11 (in full vicious circle) a an unbroken sequence of reciprocal cause and effect. b an action and reaction that intensify each other (cf. virtuous circle). c the fallacy of proving a proposition from another which depends on the first for its own proof. --v. 1 intr. (often foll. by round, about) move in a circle. 2 tr. a revolve round. b form a circle round. Phrases and idioms circle back move in a wide loop towards the starting-point. come full circle return to the starting-point. go round in circles make no progress despite effort. great (or small) circle a circle on the surface of a sphere whose plane passes (or does not pass) through the sphere's centre. run round in circles colloq. be fussily busy with little result. Derivatives circler n. Etymology: ME f. OF cercle f. L circulus dimin. of circus ring ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) круг; окружность двигаться по кругу; вращаться 2) сфера, область 3) ореол 4) замкнутая траектория (полёта) летать по замкнутой траектории, летать по кругу 5) циркулировать circle center 0 — окружность с центром в точке 0 circle of confusion — 1. кружок рассеяния 2. тлв круг нерезкости, круг размытости circle of contact — окружность касания circle of convergence — круг сходимости circle of curvature — круг (окружность) кривизны - addendum circle - aiming circle - Antarctic circle - Arctic circle - azimuth circle - base circle - blur circle - centershift control circle - circumscribing circle - clearance turning circle - concentric circles - contour circle - dedendum circle - divided circle - drawbar circle - finder circle - freezing circle - geodesic circle - great circle - height circle - imaginary circle - inscribed circle - limit circle - Mohr's circle - moldboard circle - neck circle - orthogonal circles - osculating circle - parallel circle - pedal circle - pitch circle - polar circle - potential circle - principal circle - reference circle - root circle - small circle - steering circle - stress circle - swinging circle - tangent circle - trartic circle - turning circle - vertical circle - wheel rolling circle ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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круг; кольцо; окружность; сфера, область circle of influence azimuth circle hollow circle Mohr's circle of stress nonsorted circles slip circle stress circle turning circle ...Англо-русский строительный словарь
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1) круг; кружок 2) круг, окружность двигаться по кругу 3) метал. круг, заготовка круглого сечения; круглая листовая заготовка 4) полигр. круглая линейка (для расположения шрифта по окружности ) 5) авиац. замкнутая траектория летать по замкнутой траектории, летать по кругу 6) круг, сфера, область 7) отмечать кружком; окружать center of circle — окружности circle on surface — окружность на поверхности circle circumscribed about triangle — окружность, описанная около треугольника circle with sticker — топ. круг с наклеенной полоской motion in a circle — движение по окружности periphery of a circle — окружность quadrature of a circle — квадратура круга tangent to circle —касательная к окружности within the Polar circle — за полярным кругом to argue in a circle — впасть в порочный круг to arrange in a circle — располагать(ся) по кругу циклическом порядке to circumscribe a circle — описывать окружность to form circle — образовывать круг to inscribe a circle — вписывать окружность to move in a circle — двигаться по кругу - Polar circle - addendum circle - approximate circle - auxiliary circle - azimuth circle - base circle - bearing circle - boundary circle - circle of a triangle - circle of confusion - circle of convergence - circle of curvature - circle of declination - circle of equal altitudes - circle of equal probability - circle of infinite radius - circle of inversion - circle of least confusion - circle of zero radius - circulating circle - circumscribed circle...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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сущ. 1) общ. группа, круг (людей) 2) общ. сфера, область 3) общ. круговорот, цикл 4) эк. цепь кинотеатров 5) бирж. круг* (метод определения покупателей новых ценных бумаг до того, как будет получено официальное разрешение на продажу: зарегистрированные представители ищут потенциальных покупателей и докладывают о возможных заказах андеррайтерам, которые включают их в общий список) Syn: "field, area, domain, zone, region, "space See: underwriter, trading tactics CIRCLE сущ. 1) группа, круг (людей) 2) сфера, область 3) круговорот, цикл 4) округ - business circles Syn: field, area, domain, zone, region, space ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. круг to move in circles —- кружить the aeroplane made two circles and landed —- самолет сделал два круга и приземлился we sat in a circle around the campfire —- мы сидели кружком у костра 2. кольцо, окружение in a circle of trees —- в кольце деревьев a circle of lookers-on —- кучка зевак (окруживших что-л) 3. сфера, область; круг a wide circle of interests —- широкий круг интересов within the circle of possibilities —- в пределах возможного 4. круг (людей); группа; кружок family circle —- семейный круг a circle of friends —- (тесный) круг друзей a sewing circle —- кружок кройки и шитья the circle of his acquaintance widened —- круг его знакомств расширился 5. (общественные) круги ruling circles —- правящие круги 6. круговорот, цикл circle of seasons —- круговорот времен года circle of fifth —- муз. квинтовый круг to come full circle —- завершить цикл; сделать полный оборот 7. ободок; светящийся круг (вокруг Луны) венчик; венец; диадема 8. нимб, орел 9. театр. ярус upper circle —- верхний ярус 10. арена цирка 11. ист. округ 12. астр. орбита 13. астр. круг, сфера (о путях небесных светил) a full circle of the Moon —- полный круг обращения Луны 14. диск (Луны) 15. лог. логический круг; порочный круг to argue in a circle —- выдвигать в качестве доказательства то, что само требует доказательства 16. мат. круг; окружность 17. спец. круговая...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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about вращаться, крутиться вокруг кого-л. John circled round the girl at the party, waiting for a chance to talk to her. CIRCLE of the seasons смена всех четырех времен года CIRCLE 1. noun 1) круг; окружность 2) группа, круг (людей) - ruling circles 3) кружок 4) сфера, область a wide circle of interests - широкий круг интересов 5) круговорот; цикл - circle of the seasons - come full circle 6) округ 7) theatr. ярус - dress circle - upper circle - parquet circle 8) astr. орбита 9) astr. круг (вокруг Луны и т.п.) 10) geogr. круг Syn: see clique 2. v. 1) двигаться по кругу; вращаться (тж. circle about/around/round) the Earth circles the Sun - Земля вращается вокруг Солнца 2) poet. окружать 3) передавать по кругу (вино, закуску и т.п.) - circle about ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n 1 »SHAPE« a completely round shape, like the letter O (Draw a circle 10cm in diameter. | Cut the pastry into circles. | perfect circle (=exactly round)) 2 »GROUP OF PEOPLE/THINGS« a group of people or things forming a round shape (The children stood round in a circle. | a circle of chairs) 3 »SOCIAL GROUP« also circles a group of people who know each other (a large circle of friends | well-known in fashionable circles | move in different circles (=have different friends, jobs, interests etc)) 4 political/literary/scientific etc circles the people who are involved in politics, literature, science etc (These ideas have caused an uproar in literary and academic circles.) 5 »THEATRE« BrE the upper floor of a theatre, that has seats arranged in curved rows; balcony (2) especially AmE 6 go round in circles to think or argue about something without deciding anything or making progress (Let's have a break - we're just going round in circles.) 7 come/turn full circle if a process, argument etc comes full circle, it ends in the same situation in which it began (By August her feelings had turned full circle.) (- see also square the circle square3 (6), vicious-circle) ~2 v 1 to draw a circle around something (Circle the correct answer.) 2 to move around in a circle in the air (The plane circled the airport before landing.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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See: COME FULL CIRCLE, IN A CIRCLE or IN CIRCLES, RUN CIRCLES AROUND also RUN RINGS AROUND. ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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- c.1300, from O.Fr. cercle, from L. circulus "small ring," dim. of circus (q.v.). Replaced O.E. trendel and hring. Meaning "group of persons surrounding a center of interest" is from 1714; that of "coterie" is from 1646; dim. form circlet is from 1481. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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