arcing
sweep
arc
floating
arced
change of shape
splaying
crabwise
sideways
orbital rotation
orbital motion
degree
work the angles
circular
bulging
arcdegree
angularity
angular shape
snaking
convex shape
nonvertically
ovalescent
outline
cone-shaped
curving
convexity
turn
guide
nadir
geometrism
foreshape
three-point turn
rubberbanding
form
kinetic art
work envelope
figure
iconoclasm
gyro-
circular segment
spinning
downswing
Cab
swirl
triple point
lob
shaped
skew
body English
whirl
antidirected
convolution
vortex
tractionally
arcograph
shapingly
eccentric
full circle
eddy
zigzagging
arclength
plot
bell arch
swing
angular
footprint
nonhorizontally
cam
delta
attitude
hitbox
vertical angle
circle
course
spherize
conformal
circulation
azimuth
idiotropic
amplitude
cylindroid
round angle
pivoting
zoetrope
on
along
concave shape
anterogradely
curvature
topspin
wobble
skewed
kinetic
upbow
collider
arced
crabwise
sideways
circular
ovalescent
cone-shaped
shaped
antidirected
angular
conformal
idiotropic
skew
skewed
kinetic
nonvertically
tractionally
shapingly
nonhorizontally
on
along
anterogradely
arcing
sweep
floating
change of shape
splaying
orbital rotation
orbital motion
degree
bulging
arcdegree
angularity
angular shape
snaking
convex shape
outline
curving
convexity
guide
nadir
geometrism
foreshape
three-point turn
rubberbanding
form
kinetic art
work envelope
figure
iconoclasm
circular segment
spinning
downswing
Cab
swirl
triple point
lob
body English
whirl
convolution
vortex
arcograph
eccentric
full circle
zigzagging
arclength
plot
bell arch
footprint
cam
delta
attitude
hitbox
vertical angle
circle
course
circulation
azimuth
amplitude
cylindroid
round angle
pivoting
zoetrope
concave shape
curvature
topspin
collider
arc
work the angles
turn
skew
eddy
swing
spherize
wobble
upbow
noun
- a movement in an arc
- a wide scope
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a long oar used in an open boat
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
verb
- sweep across or over
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- clean by sweeping
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- cover the entire range of
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
verb
- To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
- To form an electrical arc.
- To move following a curved path.
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
- The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
- A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
- A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
- The dimensionality of a field extension.
- Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
- The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
- A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
- The number of logical connectives in a formula.
- A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
- A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
- The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
- A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
- A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
- An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
noun
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- A setline or trotline.
verb
verb
- To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- To reach a certain age.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- To complete.
- To become (begin to be).
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To make (money); turn a profit.
- Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- To change one's direction of travel.
- Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- To hinge; to depend.
noun
- The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A single loop of a coil.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A short skit, act, or routine.
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- A pass behind or through an object.
- An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- A walk to and fro.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- The time required to complete a project.
noun
- a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
- someone employed to conduct others
- someone who shows the way by leading or advising
- something that offers basic information or instruction
- a model or standard for making comparisons
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
verb
noun
- The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
- The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
- 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.
verb
noun
- A technique in which one point or object moves while attached to another point or object, as when dragging out a new shape in a drawing program.
- The speeding up of computer-controlled cars far behind the player, often as a method to increase the level of challenge provided to the player.
- A form of lag (delay) where the player's position is updated on their local client but is delayed reaching the server, so that they seem to "jump" to the new location when the client and server eventually synchronize.
noun
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- A specific way of performing a movement.
- A quantic.
- A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- Level of performance.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- A window or dialogue box.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
- The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- The den or home of a hare.
- An infraspecific rank.
verb
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
- To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- To take shape.
noun
- A shape.
- A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- A number, an amount.
- A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
- The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- A figure of speech.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- A numeral.
- A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
verb
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- To enter into; to be a part of.
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- To embellish.
- To come to understand.
- To be reasonable.
noun
- A point where a curve or surface intersects itself along three arcs.
- The intersection of an occluded front, cold front, and warm front.
- The unique temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid and gas phases of a substance are all in equilibrium.
- A point where the incident shock wave, the reflected shock wave, the Mach stem, and one slipstream meet.
- The point where two boundaries, such as a dry line, outflow boundary, or cold front, intersect.
- A point where three plates intersect.
verb
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- To hurl or throw.
adv
adj
- Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
noun
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- The coping of a gable.
- A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
- A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
noun
- A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
- One who does not behave like others.
- A kook; a person of bizarre habits or beliefs.
- A circle not having the same centre as another.
- An exercise that goes against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle.
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
- An arc of 360 degrees.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see full, circle.
- By extension, when a debate or discussion comes "full circle" when the participants end up going over points already discussed, even though no literal change of orientation is involved. the point at which effort has resulted in no progress.
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- A full turn back to the original direction or orientation. a point arrived at which is the same point at which it began;
adv
verb
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- influence decisively
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- hang loosely
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- have a certain musical rhythm
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
noun
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
adj
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner
- Lean, lank.
- Sharp and stiff in character.
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- Relating or pertaining to an angle or angles.
- Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- Measured by an angle.
noun
noun
- A polygon representing the shape of an item.
- The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
- Availability of a satellite from the ground.
- Profession or lifestyle.
- The surface space occupied by a structure.
- The audit trail left by a crashed program.
- Space required by a piece of equipment.
- The ecological impact of a human activity, machine, etc.
- The amount of hard drive space required for a program.
- A company's geographic market presence.
noun
- Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
- 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.
- 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.
- A traffic circle or roundabout.
verb
noun
- The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- 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.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- 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.
- 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
noun
- The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
- The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
- Currency; circulating coins; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
- The movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
- The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measurement of diffusion
- The movement of the blood in the circulatory system, by which it is brought into close relations with the cells and tissues of the body; (loosely) the circulatory system.
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.
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