To surround.
To travel around along a curved path.
To travel in circles.
To place or mark a circle around.
An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.
A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
A territorial division or district.
Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
The orbit of an astronomical body.
A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
A traffic circle or roundabout.
To enclose or surround.
To produce (a sound) by ringing.
To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
To telephone (someone).
To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
to resound, reverberate, echo.
Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
To produce music with bells.
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
To rise in the air spirally.
A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.
A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
A circular group of people or objects.
A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
A pleasant or correct sound.
An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
A telephone call.
A burner on a kitchen stove.
An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.