windlass
devious
around Robin Hood's barn
roundaboutly
circumbendibus
roundabout
flying jenny
circuity
course
circular
detour
roundabout way
circumlocutory
snake
periphrastic
ambagious
circumlocutious
circumferential
rightwise
circle
boomerang
island
strafe
lateral
rampway
wallow
circuitous
circumlocutionary
circuitousness
circumforaneous
interturn
blind curve
forthright
forthrightly
curvingly
circling
downslope
squarely
rollingly
blind bend
rotary
turbo roundabout
double
slant
round
jumpup
jinky
chowk
arc
deasil
ambages
hairpin bend
gyratory
dogleg
clockwisely
outcurved
wander
sunwise
descent
curve
figure eight
all the way to Egery and back
rotunda
mini-roundabout
zigzag
backhanded
line squall
esses
corkscrewing
grade
rake
meander
ramble
shoulder
circle round
slalom
circle around
knuckle
revolve around
switchback
common rue
cycloid
past
corkscrew
spiral
sidle
moving ramp
procumbent
wraparound
bellying
bellied
devious
circular
circumbendibus
circumlocutory
periphrastic
ambagious
circumlocutious
circumferential
rightwise
circuitous
circumlocutionary
circumforaneous
interturn
downslope
jinky
outcurved
sunwise
backhanded
procumbent
wraparound
bellying
bellied
roundaboutly
forthright
forthrightly
curvingly
squarely
rollingly
deasil
clockwisely
sunwise
past
windlass
circumbendibus
flying jenny
circuity
course
detour
roundabout way
island
strafe
lateral
rampway
wallow
circuitousness
blind curve
circling
blind bend
rotary
turbo roundabout
slant
jumpup
chowk
circle
deasil
ambages
hairpin bend
gyratory
dogleg
descent
curve
figure eight
rotunda
mini-roundabout
zigzag
line squall
esses
corkscrewing
grade
rake
meander
shoulder
slalom
knuckle
switchback
common rue
cycloid
sidle
moving ramp
roundabout
snake
circle
boomerang
double
round
windlass
arc
wander
ramble
circle round
circle around
revolve around
corkscrew
spiral
verb
- To travel round roundabouts
- To play on a roundabout (carousel)
- To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner
adj
noun
- A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.
- A fairground carousel.
- A detour.
- A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
- A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
noun
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
- The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- The itinerary of a race.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- A row of bricks or blocks.
- One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.
- A learning programme, whether a single class or (UK) a major area of study.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
- The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- A golf course.
- A treatment plan.
- A stage of a meal.
- A sequence of events.
- A racecourse.
- The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To travel around along a curved path.
- To travel in circles.
- To place or mark a circle around.
- To surround.
noun
- A traffic circle or roundabout.
- An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
- A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.
- A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
- A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
- A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
- A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
- A territorial division or district.
- Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
- Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
- A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
- A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
- A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
- The orbit of an astronomical body.
- A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
verb
- To travel in a curved path.
- To return or rebound unexpectedly, especially when the result is undesired; to backfire.
- To abort a mission and return to base early.
noun
- A breakdancing move in which the performer walks on their hands while keeping the legs raised off the ground.
- A device for changing the color of a followspot.
- A flat curved airfoil that spins about an axis perpendicular to the direction of flight, originally used in various parts of the world as a hunting weapon or, in returnable types, for sports or training.
- An early return of an aircraft whose mission was aborted, often due to technical failures.
- A boomerang kick.
noun
- A roundabout; A traffic circle.
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
- A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; A peninsula; A half-island.
- A traffic island.
- A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
- An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
verb
noun
- A lateral pass.
- An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
- A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
- An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.
verb
adj
- Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.
- To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
- Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.
- Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.
- Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.
- (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) Pertaining to sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.
verb
- To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- To get a two-base hit.
- To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- To serve a second role or have a second purpose.
- To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- To fold over so as to make two folds.
- To operate as a double agent.
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- To double down.
- To multiply by two.
- (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- To repeat exactly; copy.
- To sail around (a headland or other point).
- To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
adj
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Designed for two users.
- Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
noun
- The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- A two-base hit.
- A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A double-precision floating-point number.
- A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A double feast.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- A hit on this ring.
- A boat for two scullers.
- The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
adv
noun
- An oblique movement or course.
- A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
- A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
- A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
- A point of view, an angle.
- A look, a glance.
- An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
- A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
- A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
- A sloped surface or line.
- A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
- A slope; an incline, inclination.
- A sloping surface in a culture medium.
- Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
verb
adj
verb
- wind around; move along a circular course
- make round
- pronounce with rounded lips
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
- express as a round number
- become round, plump, or shapely
adj
adv
adj
noun
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- the usual activities in your day
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- the course along which communications spread
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- an outburst of applause
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- any circular or rotating mechanism
verb
- To move following a curved path.
- To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
- To form an electrical arc.
noun
- A directed edge.
- An arclight.
- A story arc.
- A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
- That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
- A curve, in general.
- A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
- A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning.
- A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
- The three-point line.
noun
- A sharp bend in the fairway before reaching a hole.
- A single intersection consisting of two opposing T-junctions in close proximity; an intersection with a staggered cross street.
- A configuration of stairs where a flight ascends to a half-landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards.
verb
adv
noun
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
- An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- A one-dimensional continuum.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
verb
noun
- A roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
- A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based.
- A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.
- A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
noun
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- A rating.
- A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- A level of primary and secondary education.
- A gradian.
- An eyeglass prescription.
- The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- The level of the ground.
- A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
verb
- To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To pass from one school grade into the next.
- To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- To organize in grades.
noun
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
verb
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
- One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
- Perplexity.
- Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork.
- A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
- A tortuous or winding journey.
verb
verb
- To follow a winding path or course.
- To lead the life of a vagabond or itinerant; to move about with no fixed place of address.
- To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.
- To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course
- To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
noun
noun
- A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
- The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
- An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
- The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
- A usually unsealed strip of land bordering a road, where vehicles can drive or park in an emergency.
- A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
- The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
- A season or a time of day when there is relatively little air traffic.
- The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
- The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
- The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
- The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
- The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- That which supports or sustains; support.
- Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
- The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
- The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
verb
- To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
- To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
- To put (something) on one's shoulders.
- To place (something) against one's shoulders.
- To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
- To accept responsibility for.
- To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
- To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
- To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
noun
- The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
- A cut of meat.
- The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
- A mechanical joint.
- The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
- Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
- A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
- A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
verb
noun
- A path or road having a series of steep ascents and descents.
- A railway track on a steep slope in a zigzag formation, in which a train travels in a reverse direction at each switch.
- A railway track on which there are steep ascents and descents, a train moving partially or fully by the force of gravity using the momentum generated when descending to travel up an ascending part of the track; especially (Britain, dated), such a track built for fun rides at an amusement park; a type of rollercoaster.
- A sharp bend in a path or road which causes a traveller to almost reverse their direction of travel, especially one of a series of such bends on an incline; a hairpin bend; also a path or road having such a series of bends.
- A flight path consisting of a series of steep ascents and descents, generally flown as a stunt.
verb
noun
adv
adj
- Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
- Having already happened; in the past; finished.
- Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
- Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
prep
- Beyond in place or quantity
- Any number of minutes after the last hour
- Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
- No longer capable of.
- Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
noun
verb
noun
- a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
- a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
- a continuously accelerating change in the economy
- ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
adj
adj
- That extends around a corner or bend.
- Designed to be wrapped around the body and tied.
- Serving to surround or bookend something else.
noun
- Word wrap, the word processing feature that moves text on to the next line if it will not fit on the current one.
- A label or advertising display that wraps around a container.
- An extension to a property that combines side and rear extensions.
- The wrapping of numerical value in case of underflow or overflow.
- A segment where material featuring one person (such as a reporter) is introduced and concluded by another person.
- A garment that is wrapped around the body and tied.
- Synonym of wraparound mortgage
adj
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