quadrate
tetragon
sesquiquadrate
trioctile
arc
semisextile
demilune
biquintile
octant
semiquintile
trine
semiquadrate
latitude
almucantar
quintile
octavation
nonant
decile
quincunx
cometocentric
sextile
semiorbicular
circled
lunulet
crown of aberration
retrograde
opposition
eccentricity
subcircular
cone
conoid
bicircular
tricircular
cone shape
escribe
heavenish
orbicular
extraorbital
great circle
set
subcontrary
antiepicentre
square
amplitude
astro-
anticlockwise
equatorial
square circle
bowl
slant height
nine-point circle
interradius
hexachiral
apastron
equinoctial
cyclometry
celestial equator
heaven
lunar distance
ultrazodiacal
roundel
equinoctial circle
conjunction
rim
equinoctial line
compression
rondure
round-like
eccentric
halo
midcircle
nadir
radial
intercircle
semicircular
centrolobularly
polyzonal
quadrant
hemicycle
eye
subtrigonal
sail vault
semilunate
apogalacticon
elevation
orbiculate
segment
squircular
terminator
central angle
round
trailer
umbecast
interquartile
circular
encircle
septfoil
sesquiquadrate
demilune
trine
cometocentric
sextile
semiorbicular
circled
retrograde
subcircular
bicircular
tricircular
heavenish
orbicular
extraorbital
subcontrary
anticlockwise
equatorial
hexachiral
ultrazodiacal
round-like
radial
intercircle
semicircular
polyzonal
subtrigonal
semilunate
orbiculate
squircular
round
interquartile
circular
centrolobularly
quadrate
tetragon
trioctile
arc
semisextile
biquintile
octant
semiquintile
semiquadrate
latitude
almucantar
quintile
octavation
nonant
decile
quincunx
lunulet
crown of aberration
opposition
eccentricity
cone
conoid
cone shape
great circle
antiepicentre
square
trine
amplitude
square circle
bowl
slant height
nine-point circle
interradius
apastron
equinoctial
cyclometry
celestial equator
heaven
lunar distance
roundel
equinoctial circle
conjunction
rim
equinoctial line
compression
rondure
eccentric
halo
midcircle
nadir
quadrant
hemicycle
eye
sail vault
apogalacticon
elevation
segment
terminator
central angle
trailer
septfoil
escribe
set
umbecast
encircle
noun
- That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
- A directed edge.
- An arclight.
- A story arc.
- A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
- 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.
verb
noun
- The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
- The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.
- Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.
- The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
- An imaginary line (in fact a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
- The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
noun
- The relationship between two planets that are distant from each other by one eighth of a great circle (45.625 degrees)
- Transposition by an octave.
- Normalization of a numerical ratio by repeated multiplication or division by 2.
- Conversion (of the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation.
noun
- An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects.
- An arrangement of five units with four forming the corners of a square and the fifth at the centre of the square, a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
- A Galton board.
- A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at five-twelfths of an as.
adj
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adv
noun
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
noun
- The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
- The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.
- A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
- In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
- The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
- An opposite or contrasting position.
- A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
verb
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
adj
- Having, or being in, a contrary order; said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
- Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
noun
noun
- The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- A well-defined core of a human body, a flat section from the fundament to the thoracic diaphragm.
- A cell in a grid.
- The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
- A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
- A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
- The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- Cigarette.
- The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
- A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
- A mortarboard.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- A vat used for fermentation.
- A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
verb
- To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- To hold a quartile position respecting.
- To form with four sides and four right angles.
- To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular
- To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
adv
adj
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- Honest; straightforward; fair.
- Even; tied
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- Socially conventional; boring.
- Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
- Hypernyms: rectangular, polygonal
noun
- The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object.
- The maximum absolute value of some quantity that varies.
- The maximum absolute value of the vertical component of a curve or function, especially one that is periodic.
- The measure of something's size, especially in terms of width or breadth; largeness, magnitude.
- The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.
- The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.
adj
noun
noun
- The round hollow part of anything.
- A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- The action of bowling a ball.
- An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
- A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- The game of bowls.
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
verb
noun
- The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
- A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.
- The abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus.
- The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
- The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically
- The afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium.
- Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.
- Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate.
- Paradise, the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.
- Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.
noun
- A bastion of a circular form.
- A circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service.
- A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
- Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
- A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle.
- A roundelay or rondelay.
noun
- The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
- A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related.
- The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
- Cooccurrence; coincidence.
- An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
- The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
- A place where multiple things meet
noun
- The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.
- The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
- An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
- The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
- The process by which data is compressed.
adj
noun
- A circle not having the same centre as another.
- One who does not behave like others.
- A kook; a person of bizarre habits or beliefs.
- An exercise that goes against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle.
- A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
adj
- Having a different center; not concentric.
- Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
- Having different goals or motives.
- Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.
- Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
- Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
noun
- The great circle that is equidistant from two poles.
- A circle that is in the middle.
- A reference generalised circle through which two given circles are inverses of each other.
- The middle of an act of circling.
- The middle of a circle.
- The circle (if one exists) that passes through the midpoint of each side of a given polygon, especially a triangle.
adv
noun
- The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
- The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
- The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
verb
adj
noun
- One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
- One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
- A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
- One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.
- One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
noun
- The circle in the centre of a volute.
- A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
- A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
- The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
- A meaningful stare or look.
- One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
- The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
- An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
- The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
- A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
- A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
- The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
- The visual sense.
- A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
- The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
- Tinge; shade of colour.
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
- The name of the Latin-script letter I.
- Attention, notice.
- An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
- View or opinion.
- A reproductive bud in a potato.
- A brood.
- The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
- That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
verb
noun
- The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.
- That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
- The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
- The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line.
- The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
- The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
- The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
- A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
- A hill is an elevation of the ground.
- The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
noun
- The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
- One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- An Ethernet bus.
- Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A length of some object.
- A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
verb
noun
- The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.
- An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
- A text character that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
- A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
- Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
- An intelligent android created to destroy humans.
adj
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
adv
verb
noun
- Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
- A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
- A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.
- The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.
- The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card.
- A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
- A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
- An unpowered wheeled vehicle, not a caravan or camper, that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc, that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.
- Someone who or something that trails.
verb
adj
- In the shape of, or moving in a circle.
- Referring back to itself, so as to prevent computation or comprehension; infinitely recursive.
- Circuitous or roundabout.
- Of or relating to a circle.
- Distributed to a large number of persons.
noun
- Synonym of flyer: a printed advertisement, directive, or notice intended for mass circulation.
- A shuttle bus with a circular route.
verb
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