Phrase Hound found 132 phrases and 13 compound words that contain circles. The most common are listed below. Open circles in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 132
- going in circlespresent participle and gerund of go in circles
- go round in circlesTo repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress.
- go in circlesAlternative form of go round in circles: To repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress.
- goes in circlesthird-person singular simple present indicative of go in circles: To repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress.
- gone in circlespast participle of go in circles: To repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress.
- run in circlesAlternative form of go round in circles: To repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress.
- speak in circlesSynonym of talk in circles: To argue a point by repetition of the same theme, sometimes by using different words, but without making any progress.
- speaking in circlespresent participle and gerund of speak in circles
- spoke in circlessimple past of speak in circles
- spoken in circlespast participle of speak in circles: To argue a point by repetition of the same theme, sometimes by using different words, but without making any progress.
- talk in circlesTo argue a point by repetition of the same theme, sometimes by using different words, but without making any progress.
- talks in circlesthird-person singular simple present indicative of talk in circles: To argue a point by repetition of the same theme, sometimes by using different words, but without making any progress.
- went in circlessimple past of go in circles
- talking in circlespresent participle and gerund of talk in circles
- circles of friendsplural of circle of friends: A group of close friends who usually do things together.
- circles of lifeplural of circle of life: The natural cycle of procreation, birth, life, death and predation.
- speaks in circlesthird-person singular simple present indicative of speak in circles: To argue a point by repetition of the same theme, sometimes by using different words, but without making any progress.
- corn circlesplural of corn circle: An 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.
- crop circlesplural of crop circle: An 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.
- fairy circlesplural of fairy circle: A circular patch barren of vegetation, often encircled by a ring of stimulated grass growth, typically found in regions of arid grassland.
- family circlesplural of family circle: A gallery in a theater, generally one containing inexpensive seats.
- Ford circlesplural of Ford circle: Any 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).
- great circlesplural of great circle: A circle defined as the intersection of the surface of a sphere and a plane which passes through the centre of the sphere.
- green circlesplural of green circle: On a trail map, an indicator of a ski slope of the least difficulty, that is usually wide, open, and groomed, with a gradient of 0–25%.
- ice circlesplural of ice circle: A 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 …
Compound words 13
- semicirclesplural of semicircle: A half of a circle.
- circumcirclesplural of circumcircle: A circle that passes through every vertex of a given triangle (or other polygon where possible).
- demicirclesplural of demicircle: A semicircle.
- gyrocirclesplural of gyrocircle: A hyperbolic circle in gyrovector space.
- hemicirclesplural of hemicircle: Synonym of semicircle (“half of a circle”).
- maxicirclesplural of maxicircle: One of the forms of circular DNA in a kinetoplast (the other being minicircles). They encode the typical protein products needed for the mitochondria.
- megacirclesplural of megacircle: An extrachromosomal circular nucleic acid fragment
- midcirclesplural of midcircle: In, at, or towards the middle of a circle.
- minicirclesplural of minicircle: One of the forms of circular DNA in a kinetoplast (the other being maxicircles). They produce gRNA (guide RNA) to decode the encrypted information in the maxicircles, typically through the insertion or deletion of …
- pseudocirclesplural of pseudocircle: The finite topological space X consisting of four distinct points { a, b, c, d } with the non-Hausdorff topology a,b,c,d,a,b,c,a,b,d,a,b,a,b,∅.