Circle vs. Cycle

Circlenoun

(geometry) 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).

Circlenoun

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.

Circlenoun

Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.

Circlenoun

A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.

Circlenoun

Orbit.

Circlenoun

A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.

Circlenoun

(cricket) 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.

Circlenoun

(Wicca) 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.

Circlenoun

(South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.

Circlenoun

(obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.

Circlenoun

(astronomy) 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.

Circlenoun

A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.

Circlenoun

(logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.

Circlenoun

Indirect form of words; circumlocution.

Circlenoun

A territorial division or district.

Circlenoun

(in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.

Circleverb

(transitive) To travel around along a curved path.

Circleverb

(transitive) To surround.

Circleverb

(transitive) To place or mark a circle around.

Circleverb

(intransitive) To travel in circles.

Circlenoun

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.

Circlenoun

The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.

Circlenoun

An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.

Circlenoun

A round body; a sphere; an orb.

Circlenoun

Compass; circuit; inclosure.

Circlenoun

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.

Circlenoun

A circular group of persons; a ring.

Circlenoun

A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.

Circlenoun

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

Circlenoun

Indirect form of words; circumlocution.

Circlenoun

A territorial division or district.

Circleverb

To move around; to revolve around.

Circleverb

To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.

Circleverb

To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.

Circlenoun

ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point;

Circlenoun

an unofficial association of people or groups;

Circlenoun

something approximating the shape of a circle;

Circlenoun

movement once around a course;

Circlenoun

a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island;

Circlenoun

street names for flunitrazepan

Circlenoun

a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra;

Circlenoun

any circular or rotating mechanism;

Circleverb

travel around something;

Circleverb

move in circles

Circleverb

be around;

Circleverb

form a circle around;

Circlenoun

a round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the centre)

Circlenoun

something in the shape of a circle

Circlenoun

a dark circular mark below each eye caused by illness or tiredness

Circlenoun

a curved upper tier of seats in a theatre or cinema

Circlenoun

short for striking circle

Circlenoun

a group of people with a shared profession, interests, or acquaintances

Circleverb

move all the way around (someone or something), especially more than once

Circleverb

move in a wide loop back towards one's starting point

Circleverb

form a ring around

Circleverb

draw a line around

Circle

A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre; equivalently it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is constant. The distance between any point of the circle and the centre is called the radius.

Cyclenoun

An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.

Cyclenoun

A complete rotation of anything.

Cyclenoun

A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.

Cyclenoun

The members of the sequence formed by such a process.

Cyclenoun

(music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.

Cyclenoun

A series of poems, songs or other works of art.

Cyclenoun

A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.

Cyclenoun

A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike.

Cyclenoun

(baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.

Cyclenoun

(graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.

Cyclenoun

A chain whose boundary is zero.

Cyclenoun

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

Cyclenoun

An age; a long period of time.

Cyclenoun

An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.

Cyclenoun

(botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.

Cycleverb

To ride a bicycle or other cycle.

Cycleverb

To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.

Cycleverb

(electronics) To turn power off and back on

Cycleverb

(ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal

Cyclenoun

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

Cyclenoun

An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.

Cyclenoun

An age; a long period of time.

Cyclenoun

An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.

Cyclenoun

The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

Cyclenoun

One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.

Cyclenoun

A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.

Cyclenoun

A motorcycle.

Cyclenoun

A series of operations in which heat is imparted to (or taken away from) a working substance which by its expansion gives up a part of its internal energy in the form of mechanical work (or being compressed increases its internal energy) and is again brought back to its original state.

Cyclenoun

A complete positive and negative, or forward and reverse, action of any periodic process, such as a vibration, an electric field oscillation, or a current alternation; one period.

Cycleverb

To pass through a cycle{2} of changes; to recur in cycles.

Cycleverb

To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.

Cycleverb

To cause to pass through a cycle{2}.

Cyclenoun

an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs;

Cyclenoun

a series of poems or songs on the same theme;

Cyclenoun

a periodically repeated sequence of events;

Cyclenoun

the unit of frequency; one Hertz has a periodic interval of one second

Cyclenoun

a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon;

Cyclenoun

a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals

Cycleverb

cause to go through a recurring sequence;

Cycleverb

pass through a cycle;

Cycleverb

ride a motorcycle

Cycleverb

ride a bicycle

Cycleverb

recur in repeating sequences