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