Phrase Hound found 185 phrases and 38 compound words that contain circle. The most common are listed below. Open circle in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 185
- vicious circleA situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
- circle of friendsA group of close friends who usually do things together.
- full circleUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see full, circle.
- inner circleThe group comprising one's closest friends or associates.
- circle of lifeThe natural cycle of procreation, birth, life, death and predation.
- Antarctic CircleThe line which marks approximately the northernmost place in the Southern Hemisphere where the sun does not set on the summer solstice and does not rise on the winter solstice.
- Arctic CircleThe parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33′ 39″ north of the Equator, which marks approximately the southernmost place in the Northern Hemisphere where the sun does not set on the summer solstice and does not rise on the winter solstice.
- great circleA circle defined as the intersection of the surface of a sphere and a plane which passes through the centre of the sphere.
- unit circleA circle of radius 1.
- circle of confusionAn optical spot caused by a cone of light rays from a lens not coming to a perfect focus when imaging a point source.
- circle backTo return to a previous location or state; to come back to.
- stone circleA prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle.
- circle the drainTo be in a rapid decline or in a state of downfall, especially as leading to an inevitable utter failure or destruction.
- centre circleThe circle in the centre of the pitch which, at kick-off, the defending team may not enter until the attacking side has touched the ball.
- Circle CityThe city of Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
- magic circleA circle marked on the ground by a practitioner of magic, used as magical protection or to form a magical area.
- polar circleEither of the two parallels of the Earth located at the latitude of 66° 33′ 44″ N and 66° 33′ 44″ S.
- Ford circleAny one of a class of circles with centre at (p/q, 1/(2q²)) and radius 1/(2q²), where p/q is an irreducible fraction (i.e., p and q are coprime integers).
- crop circleAn area in a field of crops where the stalks have been flattened into a circle or other geometric shape, performed as a prank or sometimes ascribed to UFO activity etc.
- square the circleTo construct a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge, a task which is mathematically impossible.
- turning circleThe circular path formed by the wheel furthest from the centre of the turn when turning to the maximum extent.
- Golden CircleA proposed slave state encircling the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
- ice circleA phenomenon that occurs on rivers during winter, where floating ice caught in an eddying flow will rotate around, knocking off its distant edges, forming a floating revolving circular disk, slowing turning under the influence of the …
- director circleA circle formed by all 90° crossings of tangents of an ellipse or hyperbola.
- quality circlea group of employees which meets regularly to resolve problems and improve working methods; part of the kaizen system
Compound words 38
- CirclevilleAn unincorporated community in Rushville Township, Rush County, Indiana, United States.
- circlipA type of fastener consisting of a flexible metal ring of spring steel with open ends which can be snapped into place. Internal and external forms exist.
- circumcircleA circle that passes through every vertex of a given triangle (or other polygon where possible).
- excircleAn escribed circle; a circle outside a polygon (especially a triangle, but also sometimes a quadrilateral) that is tangent to each of the lines on which the sides of the polygon lie.
- midcircleIn, at, or towards the middle of a circle.
- squircleA closed quartic curve having properties intermediate between those of a square and a circle.
- circuleA small circle, used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a note.
- circloidA variant of a cycloid being the locus of a point on a circle that rolls around another circle
- quasicircleA Jordan curve in the complex plane that is the image of a circle under a quasiconformal mapping of the plane onto itself.
- recircleTo circle again.