Circle: Definition and part of speech

Circle

  1. n. A territorial division or district.
  2. n. A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.
  3. n. The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.
  4. n. An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.
  5. n. A round body; a sphere; an orb.
  6. n. Compass; circuit; inclosure.
  7. n. A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set.
  8. n. A circular group of persons; a ring.
  9. n. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
  10. n. A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
  11. 1n. 1 A territorial division or district.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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