Circle

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Compass; circuit; inclosure.

II. Circle ·noun To move around; to revolve around.

III. Circle ·noun A territorial division or district.

IV. Circle ·noun A circular group of persons; a ring.

V. Circle ·noun Indirect form of words; circumlocution.

VI. Circle ·noun A round body; a sphere; an Orb.

VII. Circle ·noun A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.

VIII. Circle ·noun The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.

IX. Circle ·vi To move circularly; to form a circle; to Circulate.

X. Circle ·noun An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.

XI. Circle ·noun A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.

XII. Circle ·noun To encompass, as by a circle; to Surround; to Inclose; to Encircle.

XIII. Circle ·noun 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.

XIV. Circle ·noun 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.

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