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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
circular
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
circular file
circular saw
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
nearly
▪ The king crabs have a nearly circular carapace, beneath which powerful legs helped the animal to swim and catch prey.
▪ First there was a nearly circular rim of resplendent mountains, their white caps glistening in the morning sun.
▪ The path is more nearly circular.
▪ The comet had a nearly circular coma about two degrees in diameter but no obvious tail.
▪ The wave accelerates into the nearly circular cavity from all sides, converging on the center of the crater.
▪ Both satellites pursue nearly circular, equatorial orbits about Mars.
roughly
▪ The lake was roughly circular in shape.
▪ The daytime blast is heard over a roughly circular area some 70 kilometers in diameter.
▪ They consist of roughly circular depressions and of more elongated depressions, and are radar-dark.
■ NOUN
argument
▪ Clearly the more elaborate the dress, the more dress-fasteners required, although there is here the danger of a circular argument.
▪ Pupils can often fall back on a circular argument such as: Why is the relationship linear?
▪ Failure to recognize this leads to circular arguments.
▪ The Court refused to allow itself to be caught in a circular argument as to which State needed to waive immunity first.
▪ This appears to be a circular argument, typical of closed-belief systems.
chamber
▪ The circular chamber was once again wide and dark and almost empty.
▪ The tunnel she had emerged into led to a circular chamber.
▪ Her worst fears were confirmed when they reached the circular chamber.
▪ A blast of superheated rock fragments heralded the Doctor's arrival into a huge circular chamber.
▪ Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along dark corridors and seemed to expand into the circular chamber.
▪ The passageway ended in another small, circular chamber.
flow
▪ The circular flow of income and spending.
▪ Let us build on the circular flow model by discussing more fully the concept of a market.
▪ Having identified the main sectors we can now include them in the circular flow approach adopted in Figure 1.2.
▪ We could examine the workings of the multiplier by considering changes in other injections into the circular flow.
▪ In other words, extra spending automatically generates additional leakages from the circular flow.
▪ Taxation Tin the circular flow has been interpreted as income taxation and is the difference between gross and disposable income.
▪ On the other hand reduced injections will have a contractionary effect on income levels in the domestic circular flow.
▪ Some ratios use domestic product, which measures resources produced entirely within the domestic circular flow.
letter
▪ Guidance by circular Every year all government departments send a score or more of circular letters to local authorities.
▪ This meeting also approved a circular letter which it is to be assumed canvassed for potential members.
logic
▪ The irony in all this is the circular logic of what appears to be the new strategic competition.
motion
▪ When considering circular motion it is often easier to work in terms of the angular velocity rather than ordinary linear velocity.
▪ In fact, each individual drop of water is describing a circular motion which takes it nowhere overall.
▪ Why then does the sun appear to set and to have a circular motion around the Earth?
▪ It lacks the qualities associated with the perfection of the celestial sphere: circular motion, elemental purity, immutability.
▪ He made a circular motion with closed fingers.
▪ Thus the poem has a circular motion corresponding to the circular shape of the object it describes.
▪ Knead the fondant or marzipan thoroughly, using a circular motion to spread the colour evenly.
▪ With shoes off, make a circular motion with the feet to the count of 10, Levi suggested.
orbit
▪ Similarly, radial burns can be used to convert circular orbits into elliptical ones.
▪ Subsequent timing observations have shown the pulsar to be in a 5.74-day circular orbit with a low-mass companion.
▪ A spacecraft passing through its perigee point is moving faster than an equivalent craft on a circular orbit of the same radius.
▪ Consequently the force of gravity at perigee is not enough to hold it in a circular orbit.
▪ This changes them from a circular orbit to an elliptical one.
▪ Another burn at this point can accelerate the craft, placing it on the higher circular orbit.
▪ An arrangement of more than four similar events into a circular orbit emphasises the centre, which may be occupied or not.
▪ So far we have been discussing circular orbits.
route
▪ This 97 mile circular route follows the towpaths of six different canals.
saw
▪ Their versatility means a circular saw is not always needed.
▪ A circular saw screeched and the smell of fresh sawdust was everywhere.
▪ The spikes can destroy a chainsaw or circular saw.
▪ If you already own a jigsaw and circular saw, the Cut Saw is probably not for you.
table
▪ Sit in one of the circular chairs, at a circular table, in the circular lobby.
▪ The furniture was sparse: a circular table and two chairs; a plain bookshelf crammed with books about art and artists.
▪ We sit in semidarkness around a huge circular table which fills the compartment almost completely.
▪ Bentwood chairs, small circular tables and wall-mounted globe cafe lights are the key.
▪ Close to the globe was a circular table, mostly painted blue.
▪ White lacquer-sprayed branches circled the room, laid with 10 circular tables.
▪ In the classroom, photos of the trip to the seaside were on display and there were small circular tables.
walk
▪ This latter deviation can, of course, be used to make a circular walk from the station of about seven miles.
▪ You can take a 12-mile or 20-mile circular walk around the village.
▪ For variety and to make a longer walk you can try the three circular walks which leave the towpath at various points.
▪ It is happily served by two old paths for ascent and descent, encouraging a circular walk best done clockwise.
▪ The aim of the circular walk I've devised is to capture as fully as possible the incredible magic of the Lakes.
▪ Planned circular walks are also available, which always include many points of interest and an approximate time.
▪ Tintern Abbey in the Wye Valley makes a good half way point on a circular walk from Chepstow.
▪ This was my first stop on a circular walk round the peninsula's exposed western extremity.
window
▪ The transepts have large circular windows.
▪ The circular window, the Gothic rose, evolved from the Romanesque wheel window.
▪ Above the porch was usually a decorative circular window in the façade gable which lit the nave behind.
▪ Then, looking up at the circular window above it, Jack saw that the catch was not fully in position.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The cattle are kept in a large circular enclosure.
▪ the moon's circular orbit
▪ The planets follow almost circular orbits around the sun.
▪ The procession follows a circular route through the town, and finishes back in the park.
▪ The villa has a circular courtyard with rooms leading off it in all directions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Attached to one side was an enormous circular blade; a startling silver against the gloom.
▪ Hold up the circular strip and ask the students how many sides it has.
▪ Rather, I think the measure should be circular, like the face of a clock.
▪ The frigidarium is small and circular in plan.
▪ The interior of the circular cella is a masterpiece of construction and lighting effect.
▪ The level I have in mind is circular.
▪ With shoes off, make a circular motion with the feet to the count of 10, Levi suggested.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Central Government publish general advice on a wide range of planning issues through planning policy guidance notes and circulars.
▪ In view of the threat of expulsions contained in these circulars, Labour supporters of Unity had to reconsider their position.
▪ It is not a circular slipped under your door to which you may or may not respond with a pre-paid envelope.
▪ Publishers often distribute, in addition to catalogues, circulars about individual books or series.
▪ Robotic bureaucrats do not look through the Sunday shopping circulars to find the lowest prices.
▪ Still, make sure that it's mentioned in the next circular, lad.
▪ The Patten plan, detailed in a Government draft circular, risks further heightening confrontation with teachers already boycotting national curriculum tests.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
circular

Cyclic \Cyc"lic\ (s?k"l?k or s?"kl?k), Cyclical \Cyc"lic*al\ (s?k"l?-kal), a. [Cf. F. cycluque, Gr. kykliko`s, fr. ky`klos See Cycle.]

  1. Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
    --Coleridge.

  2. (Chemistry) Having atoms bonded to form a ring structure. Opposite of acyclic.

    Note: Used most commonly in respect to organic compounds.

    Note: [Narrower terms: bicyclic; heterocyclic; homocyclic, isocyclic]

    Syn: closed-chain, closed-ring.

  3. Recurring in cycles[2]; having a pattern that repeats at approximately equal intervals; periodic. Opposite of noncyclic.

    Note: [Narrower terms: alternate(prenominal), alternating(prenominal); alternate(prenominal), every other(prenominal), every second(prenominal); alternating(prenominal), oscillating(prenominal); biyearly; circadian exhibiting 24-hour periodicity); circular; daily, diurnal; fortnightly, biweekly; hourly; midweek, midweekly; seasonal; semestral, semestrial; semiannual, biannual, biyearly; semiweekly, biweekly; weekly; annual, yearly; biennial; bimonthly, bimestrial; half-hourly; half-yearly; monthly; tertian, alternate(prenominal); triennial]

  4. Marked by repeated cycles[2].

    Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.

    Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject.
    --Milman.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
circular

late 14c., from Anglo-French circuler, Old French circuler "circular" (14c., Modern French circulaire), from Latin circularis, from circulus (see circle (n.)). The metaphoric circular firing squad is attested by 1990.

circular

1550s, "circular figure," from circular (adj.). Meaning "a notice circulated" is from 1818.

Wiktionary
circular

a. 1 Of or relating to a circle. 2 In the shape of, or moving in a circle. n. 1 A printed advertisement, directive, or notice intended for mass distribution; a flyer 2 In administration, a circular letter 3 (context dated English) A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.

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WordNet
circular

  1. adj. having a circular shape [syn: round] [ant: square]

  2. shaped like a ring [syn: annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, ringed, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped]

  3. marked by or moving in a circle [syn: rotary]

circular

n. an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers" [syn: handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway]

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Wikipedia
Circular

Circular may refer to: Forms of communication used in conveying information and directives within an organization. It is sometimes called office instructions.

  • The shape of a circle
    • Circular reasoning, a type of logical fallacy
    • Circular reference
  • Circular letter (disambiguation)
    • Flyer (pamphlet), a form of advertisement
  • Circular Letter (Interlingua), an early Interlingua newsletter published from 1954 to 1965, when it was expanded and renamed Lingua e Vita
  • Circular (album), the second studio album by Spanish singer Vega
  • Circular (application), a buffer application for Twitter
Circular (album)

Circular is the second studio album by Spanish singer Vega, released on February 27, 2006 (see 2006 in music) by Universal Music Spain.

Circular (application)

Circular is a web application designed to schedule posts to Twitter. It is the main free alternative to Buffer. It doesn't support Facebook or LinkedIn.

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Usage examples of "circular".

If we only consider the mean or average effect in orbits nearly circular, this force may be considered as an ablatitious force at all distances below the mean, counterbalanced by an opposite effect at all distances above the mean.

The passage let into a circular sanctorum, its albescent walls worked in intricate arabesques, its high vaulted ceiling held aloft by fluted alabaster columns.

She had a bowl of soft water and a pair of boots to offer for the heavy waders, for outer comfort, a glass of cold buttermilk and a bench on which to rest, in the circular arbour until dinner was ready.

The teenager looked, pointing to a circular blemish on the feather-edge timber wall of the barn.

THE MAIN HALL OF THE FORTRESS, Lancelot, Gawain, Galahad, Bors, Dagonet and Tristran stood behind chairs at the thick-plank circular table, waiting.

As related in the opening chapter, the 21 ships of the Force threaded their way through Bungo Strait at about noon and by nightfall were well into the Pacific, forging southeastward in circular cruising disposition.

The one to the chromed skull impacted solidly, leaving a neat circular hole in the forehead, an inch from the glowing eyes.

This country is flooded with cheap circulars and pamphlets, circulated openly and broadcast, wherein ignorant, pretentious, blatant quacks endeavor to frighten young men who may never have practiced self-abuse, or been guilty of excesses in any way, and yet who experience, now and then at long intervals, nocturnal seminal emissions.

In the eastern side of the circular room last described there is a storage cist about 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep.

Vppon the which there was placed an other vessell as it were a circular couer of a most curious leafe worke, with a smal coronice, and an artificiall orifice.

Each division is filled with a geometrical pattern of two panels, each panel ending in a trefoil, with a circular trefoil in the head of each division, and a crocketed gable, terminating in a rich finial above it.

From the imposing entrance through a double avenue of cryptomeria, among courts, gates, temples, shrines, pagodas, colossal bells of bronze, and lanterns inlaid with gold, you pass through this final court bewildered by magnificence, through golden gates, into the dimness of a golden temple, and there is--simply a black lacquer table with a circular metal mirror upon it.

He closed the circular catch basin cover, not too much more than half a cubit across.

Therefore he should have time to swing around on a long circular course and bring Flapper back to the island just after darkfall, when her return was least likely to be noticed.

Two Southern Guards stood as Alucius and Deen rode through the opening in the wall and along the circular lane to the main entry.