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How to pronounce circle in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms band, lot, set
Type of social group
Has types coterie, four hundred, camp, car pool, clique, cohort, company, confederacy, conspiracy, horsey set, horsy set, ingroup, inner circle, jet set, pack, party
Type Words
Synonyms rotary, roundabout, traffic circle
Type of junction
Type Words
Synonyms encircle
Type of shape, form


encircle the errors.
Type Words
Synonyms forget me drug, mexican valium, r-2, roach, roofy, rope, rophy
Type of rohypnol, flunitrazepan
Type Words
Synonyms round
Type of rotating mechanism
Has types disk, disc
Derivation circular


the machine punched out metal circles.
Type Words
Synonyms circuit, lap
Type of travel, locomotion
Has types victory lap, pace lap, lap of honour
Derivation circular
Type Words
Synonyms dress circle
Type of seating room, seating, seats, seating area


they had excellent seats in the dress circle.
Type Words
Type of oval, ellipse
Has types equator, osculating circle, circle of curvature, epicycle, circlet
Derivation circular


he calculated the circumference of the circle.
Type Words
Type of move, travel, go, locomote
Has types loop, troll, orb, revolve, orbit


the plane circled, looking for a landing spot.
Type Words
Type of form, shape


the chairs were arranged in a circle.
Type Words
Type of go, locomote, move, travel
Has types circumnavigate, revolve around, circumambulate, circle round, walk around, circle around, compass


circle the globe.

Examples of circle

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Lee then ran to the center circle and fired a symbolic arrow into the night sky.
From the chron.com
Cut a piece of matching ribbon slightly shorter than the diameter of the circle.
From the kentucky.com
The area where the crippled nuclear power plant is located is circle on the map.
From the timesunion.com
Sidiqi was part of Atta's circle, according to the German intelligence official.
From the edition.cnn.com
Arrange the triangles, chip side down, in a circle on the baking sheet or stone.
From the freep.com
In a vicious circle, the higher rates themselves increased Greece's debt burden.
From the businessweek.com
Laid off from her job as a store clerk, she appealed to another circle for help.
From the businessweek.com
By the end, with a black man in the White House, Prothero brings it full circle.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Imagine a balance beam routine over four hooves, cantering in a constant circle.
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More examples
  • 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; "he calculated the circumference of the circle"
  • Travel around something; "circle the globe"
  • Move in circles
  • Set: an unofficial association of people or groups; "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot"
  • Something approximating the shape of a circle; "the chairs were arranged in a circle"
  • Lap: movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance"
  • A circle is a simple shape of Euclidean geometry consisting of those points in a plane which are equidistant from a given point called the centre (or center; cf. American and British English spelling differences). The common distance of the points of a circle from its centre is called its radius.
  • Circle is the first full length album on Mush, by the short-lived collaboration between producer Boom Bip and rapper/poet Doseone. It is the only album ever recorded by the duo.
  • Circle is an experimental rock-music band, founded in Pori, Finland in 1991. Their style may be classed Progressive or Krautrock, similar to Faust, Can and Neu!.