Circle vs Blue - What's the difference?
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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rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles .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.
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*: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.
Of the colour blue.
(lb) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue'-stocking and the fogy!—and yours ''are'' pale '''blue , Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
Pornographic or profane.
(lb) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
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# Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
(lb) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
(lb) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
(lb) Possessing a coat of fur that is a shade of gray.
(lb) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
literary; bluestockinged.
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(lb) Having a color charge of blue.
The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
A blue dye or pigment.
Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
Blue clothing
(in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
(slang) A member of law enforcement
The sky, literally or figuratively.
The ocean; deep waters.
Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily in the family Lycaenidae.
A bluefish.
(Australia, colloquial) An argument.
* 2008 , Cheryl Jorgensen, The Taint ,
* 2009 , John Gilfoyle, Remember Cannon Hill ,
* 2011 , Julietta Jameson, Me, Myself and Lord Byron ,
A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
(British) A type of firecracker.
(archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
(ergative) To make or become blue.
(metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
(slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
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.As a verb circle
is to travel around along a curved path.As a proper noun blue is
an anglicization of (etyl) blau.circle
English
(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.
Derived terms
* circle the drainAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsblue
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) * (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- The ladies were very blue and well informed.
Antonyms
* (having blue as its colour) nonblue, unblueNoun
(en noun)- The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
- The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield.
- ''His request for leave came out of the blue .
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- If they had a blue between themselves, they kept it there, it never flowed out onto the streets to innocent people — like a lot of things that have been happenin? on the streets today.
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- On another occasion, there was a blue between Henry Daniels and Merv Wilson down at the pig sale. I don?t know what it was about, it only lasted a minute or so, but they shook hands when it was over and that was the end of it.
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- I was a bit disappointed. Was that it? No abuse like Lord Byron had endured? Not that I was wishing that upon myself. It was just that a blue between my parents, albeit a raging, foul, bile-spitting hate fest, was not exactly Charles Dickens.
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*Verb
- They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never.
