transcription, транскрипция: [ sɜ:(r)k(ə)l ]
( circles, circling, circled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area.
The flag was red, with a large white circle in the center...
I wrote down the number 46 and drew a circle around it.
= ring
N-COUNT
2.
A circle of something is a round flat piece or area of it.
Cut out 4 circles of pastry.
...a circle of yellow light.
= ring
N-COUNT : usu N of n
3.
A circle of objects or people is a group of them arranged in the shape of a circle.
The monument consists of a circle of gigantic stones...
We stood in a circle holding hands.
= ring
N-COUNT : oft N of n
4.
If something circles an object or a place, or circles around it, it forms a circle around it.
This is the ring road that circles the city.
...the long curving driveway that circled around the vast clipped lawn.
= encircle
VERB : V n , V around/round n
5.
If an aircraft or a bird circles or circles something, it moves round in a circle in the air.
The plane circled, awaiting permission to land...
There were two helicopters circling around.
...like a hawk circling prey.
VERB : V , V adv / prep , V n
6.
To circle around someone or something, or to circle them, means to move around them.
Emily kept circling around her mother...
The silent wolves would track and circle them.
VERB : V around/round n , V n
7.
If you circle something on a piece of paper, you draw a circle around it.
Circle the correct answers on the coupon below.
= ring
VERB : V n
8.
You can refer to a group of people as a circle when they meet each other regularly because they are friends or because they belong to the same profession or share the same interests.
He has a small circle of friends...
Alton has made himself fiercely unpopular in certain circles.
N-COUNT : with supp
9.
In a theatre or cinema, the circle is an area of seats on the upper floor.
N-SING : the N
10.
see also Arctic Circle , dress circle , inner circle , vicious circle , virtuous circle
11.
If you say that you have come full circle or have turned full circle , you mean that after a long series of events or changes the same situation that you started with still exists.
We’ve come full circle and dark-blue jeans are once again the height of style.
PHRASE : V inflects