Circ vs Circle - What's the difference?
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(informal) Circumcision.
* 2001 , Richard Gordon, Great Medical Mysteries , House of Stratus (2001), ISBN 1842325183,
* 2011 , Michelle Au, This Won't Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood , Grand Central Publishing (2011), ISBN 9780446574419,
* 2011 , Maggie Kozel, The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey In and Out of Medicine , Chelsea Green Publishing (2011), ISBN 9781603582971,
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(informal) To circumcise.
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*:If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.
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(Webster 1913)
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(lb) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from another point.
:The set of all points (x'', ''y'') such that (x-1)2 + y2 = r2 is a circle of radius ''r around
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 from another point.
Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
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A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
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Orbit.
A specific group of persons.
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*:As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle , a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
*1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
*:The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles .
(lb) 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.
(lb) 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.
(lb) A traffic circle or roundabout.
*2011 , Charles E. Webb, Downfall and Freedom , p.120:
*:He arrived at the lakefront and drove around the circle where the amusement park and beach used to be when he was a kid
(lb) Compass; circuit; enclosure.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:in the circle of this forest
(lb) 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 series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain.
(lb) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
*(Joseph Glanvill) (1636-1680)
*:That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing.
Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
* (1579-1625)
*:Has he given the lie, / In circle , or oblique, or semicircle.
A territorial division or district.
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To travel around along a curved path.
* Alexander Pope
To surround.
* Dampier
* Coleridge
To place or mark a circle around.
To travel in circles.
In obsolete terms the difference between circ and circle
is that circ is an amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus while circle is compass; circuit; enclosure.circ
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Etymology 1
See (circus).Etymology 2
From circumcision/circumcise by shortening.Noun
(en noun)page 65:
- During the pre-NHS 1930s, circumcision was as fashionable among the British middle class as confirmation. Breech deliveries were said to be popular with both obstetrician and anaesthetist, a boy assuring them early in the birth of 'a couple of guineas next week for the circ .'
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- The circ is progressing apace when, without warning, one of the nurses bursts in from outside, and I mean bursts'' in, as opposed to entering soundlessly and unobtrusively as we all try to (with the exception of the attending surgeons, who ''always burst in), and tells us, "Someone just crashed a plane into one of the Twin Towers."
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- Ironically, our Japanese-born colleague Seiji, who came from a culture that did not circumcise, had no problem with it. In fact, he was amazing to behold. Seiji could finish a "slice and dice," as we called it, before I could even get my gloves on. Bob and I would change every poopy, slimy diaper in that nursery just to stall until Seiji finished the circs .
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(wikipedia circle)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (two-dimensional outline geometric figure) coil (not in mathematical use), ring (not in mathematical use), loop (not in mathematical use) * (two-dimensional solid geometric figure) disc/disk (in mathematical and general use), round (not in mathematical use; UK & Commonwealth only ) * (curve) arc, curve * (orbit) orbit * (a specific group of persons) bunch, gang, groupDerived terms
* arctic circleVerb
(circl)- Other planets circle other suns.
- Their heads are circled with a short turban.
- So he lies, circled with evil.
- Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for.
- Vultures circled overhead.