Circle
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 series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
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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Circle Quotations
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
The wheel is come full circle.
William Shakespeare
I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
Mitch Hedberg
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
Maynard James Keenan
The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
Nicolaus Copernicus
I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo
We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
Maynard James Keenan
Circle Translations
circle in Danish is cirkel
circle in Dutch is cirkel, kring
circle in French is cercle, rond
circle in German is Kreis
circle in Italian is cerchia
circle in Latin is orbis
circle in Norwegian is sirkel
circle in Swedish is krets, cirkel, kretsa, cirka
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