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verb
- To encircle; to enclose, to encompass.
- To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
- To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.
- To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
- To submit to; to undergo.
noun
verb
- To encircle; to encompass.
- To go round, pass, go past.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
- To shape something into a curve.
- To turn past a boundary.
- To advance to home plate.
- To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- To do ward rounds.
- To become shaped into a curve.
- To finish; to complete; to fill out.
adj
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Large in magnitude.
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- Plump.
- Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- Vaulted.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
- Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
noun
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A circular dance.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- A round-top.
- A round of beef.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- A stage in a competition.
- A stage or level of a game.
- The hindquarters of a bovine.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- The play after each deal.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
verb
noun
- A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- An orbit of an heavenly body
- Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
- A sphere of action.
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
- A blank window or panel.
- A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
- One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
- The time period of an orbit
- A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
- The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
- A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
verb
verb
noun
- The hoopoe.
- A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
- A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
- A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
- A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
- A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
- The game of basketball.
- The rim part of a basketball net.
- A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
- A jockey.
- A hoop earring.
- An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
- A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
verb
- To encircle.
- To fasten a belt on.
- To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- To hit with a belt.
- To scream or sing in a loud manner.
- To move very fast.
- To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
- To hit someone or something.
- To drink quickly, often in gulps.
noun
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
- A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
- One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
- The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
- A quick drink of liquor.
- A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
- Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
- A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
- A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
- A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
verb
verb
- To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- To perceive or follow by scent.
- To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
- To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- To travel in a way that is not straight.
- To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
noun
- Flatus.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
- The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- The ability to breathe easily.
- Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
noun
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- The zodiac; also, the equator.
- A thin bed or stratum of stone.
verb
verb
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
noun
- a characteristic sound
- a toroidal shape
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
verb
noun
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.
verb
adj
verb
- To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
- To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- To turn pale; to lose colour.
- To become insignificant.
noun
- Limits, bounds (especially before of).
- A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
- A cheese scoop.
- The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
- A wooden stake; a picket.
adj
verb
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- To turn a knob etc.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- To wind into; to insinuate.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- To cause to rotate.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- To coax.
- To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
noun
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A twisting force.
- The form given in twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- A girl, a woman.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
adj
verb
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- To become entangled or snarled.
- Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
- Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- One who bows or bends.
- A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
- A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
verb
noun
- The overall form or organization of something.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
- Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
verb
- To encircle (someone or something) with outstretched arms; specifically, to measure the circumference or (rare) length of something.
- To measure a depth; to sound.
- To conduct an examination or inquiry; to investigate.
- To measure the depth of (water); to take a sounding of; to sound.
- Often followed by out: to deeply understand (someone or something); to get to the bottom of.
noun
- Originally, the distance between an adult man's arms stretched out away from the sides of his torso so that they make a straight line perpendicular to his body, measured from the tips of the longest fingers of each hand, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres); subsequently used as a unit for water depth but now generally replaced by the metre.
- Depth of insight; mental reach or scope.
- An unspecified depth.
noun
noun
verb
noun
- (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
- a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
- any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
- an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
verb
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