circle
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1. circle - Noun
2. circle - Verb
3. Circle - Proper noun
Meaning
A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.
The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.
An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.
A round body; a sphere; an orb.
Compass; circuit; inclosure.
A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set.
A circular group of persons; a ring.
A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
A territorial division or district.
To move around; to revolve around.
To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.
To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
Everything the power does, it does in a circle.
Going in a circle in the cold of Waimea.
A man's life is a circle from childhood to childhood.