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Circle vs Aline - What's the difference?

circle | aline |

As verbs the difference between circle and aline

is that circle is to travel around along a curved path while aline is .

As a noun circle

is (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.

circle

English

(wikipedia circle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • :
  • A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
  • :
  • Orbit.
  • A specific group of persons.
  • :
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *
  • *:“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rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles .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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  • 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, group

    Derived terms

    * arctic circle

    Verb

    (circl)
  • To travel around along a curved path.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Other planets circle other suns.
  • To surround.
  • * Dampier
  • Their heads are circled with a short turban.
  • * Coleridge
  • So he lies, circled with evil.
  • To place or mark a circle around.
  • Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for.
  • To travel in circles.
  • Vultures circled overhead.

    Derived terms

    * circle the drain

    aline

    English

    Alternative forms

    * align

    Etymology 1

    From , (etyl) aligner .

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To form in line; to fall into line.
  • To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.
  • :* {{quote-book, year=1963
  • , year_published=2005 , edition=digitized , editor= , author=US National Bureau of Standards , title= , chapter= citation , genre=Science , publisher=US Govt. Printing Office , isbn= , page=69 , passage=Nuclear Orientation.' Studies made of the photoneutron cross section in the region of the giant resonance, using an ' alined holmium target, directly confirmed the theory that this cross section is associated with the two axes of the deformed nucleus. }}
  • :* {{quote-book, year=1975
  • , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Royal Society , title=Mathematical and Physical Sciences , chapter= citation , genre=Mathematics , publisher=Royal Society of London , isbn= , page=167 , passage=Field-alined electron intensities were not found in the low-altitude signature of the plasma sheet. }}
  • To adhere oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • :* {{quote-book, year=1977
  • , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Joint Publications Research Service , title=Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=34 , passage=The first item to be studied is the present status of the technical development of radio and television in the non-alined countries. }}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in line
  • :* {{quote-web, date=2009-01-26
  • , year= , first= , last= , author=Michele Wissot , authorlink= , title=New Year, New Numbers , site=Huffington Post citation , archiveorg= , accessdate= , passage=So instead of looking to the stock market for some quick fix, why not see what the stars have aline ? }}
    Derived terms
    * alinement

    Anagrams

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