Английский словарь американских идиом - circle
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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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(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 ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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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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- 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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