circumbendibus
circuitousness
roundaboutly
backhanded
roundabout
flying jenny
circumferential
ambagious
circular
windlass
devious
by-
around Robin Hood's barn
galloper
turbo roundabout
roundabout way
detour
island
circumforaneous
forthright
rotary
forthrightly
squarely
circumlocutious
circumlocutory
circle
periphrastic
chowk
ambages
circumlocutionary
all the way to Egery and back
roundaboutness
rotunda
plumb
ring junction
clockwiseness
gyratory
deiseal
meeting
intersectionally
circumgyration
bylane
rightwise
crossroad
subcircle
laterally
sunwise
round
circumgyratory
deasil
clockwisely
mini-roundabout
foot
curve
oblique
circumlocution
circuity
back alley
lateral
around
loop
hypotrochoid
distolateral
semidirectional
shunpike
retrorse
hield
sideways
bight
slantways
circularism
nip
slantwise
sideway
sidewise
skew
antrorse
sideline
corner
spherical angle
isoeccentric
turning circle
intercircle
veer
go round
interstitial
gully
tractionally
blind curve
wraparound
blind bend
right-handed
orbit
circumbendibus
backhanded
circumferential
ambagious
circular
devious
circumforaneous
circumlocutious
circumlocutory
periphrastic
circumlocutionary
rightwise
sunwise
circumgyratory
oblique
distolateral
semidirectional
retrorse
antrorse
isoeccentric
intercircle
interstitial
wraparound
right-handed
roundaboutly
forthright
forthrightly
squarely
deiseal
intersectionally
laterally
sunwise
deasil
clockwisely
around
sideways
slantways
slantwise
sideway
sidewise
tractionally
circuitousness
circumbendibus
flying jenny
windlass
galloper
turbo roundabout
roundabout way
detour
island
rotary
circle
chowk
ambages
roundaboutness
rotunda
plumb
ring junction
clockwiseness
gyratory
meeting
circumgyration
bylane
crossroad
subcircle
round
mini-roundabout
foot
curve
circumlocution
circuity
back alley
lateral
loop
hypotrochoid
shunpike
bight
circularism
nip
skew
sideline
spherical angle
turning circle
deasil
gully
blind curve
blind bend
roundabout
windlass
hield
corner
veer
go round
orbit
verb
- To travel round roundabouts
- To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner
- To play on a roundabout (carousel)
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.
adj
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 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
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
- The perpendicular direction or position.
- A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
- A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
verb
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
- To work as a plumber.
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To fall or sink like a plummet.
- To position vertically above or below.
adv
adj
noun
- A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
- The people at such a gathering.
- A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
- The act of persons or things that meet.
- An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
- An encounter between people, even accidental.
noun
noun
- A circular or repetitious route.
- 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 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
- 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 encircle; to encompass.
- 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.
adv
noun
- The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- Travel by walking.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The bottom edge of a sail.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- The globular lower domain of a protein.
- The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- Foot soldiers; infantry.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
verb
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
adj
adj
noun
noun
- An instance of such usage; a roundabout expression, whether an inadvisable one or a necessary one.
- Unnecessary use of extra words to express an idea, such as a pleonastic phrase (sometimes driven by an attempt at emphatic clarity) or a wordy substitution (the latter driven by euphemistic intent, pedagogic intent, or sometimes loquaciousness alone).
- Necessary use of a phrase to circumvent either a vocabulary fault (of speaker or listener) or a lexical gap, either monolingually or in translation.
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.
adv
- in a circle or circular motion
- in the area or vicinity
- by a circular or circuitous route
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- to a particular destination either specified or understood
- all around or on all sides
- in circumference
- from beginning to end; throughout
noun
- A ring road or beltway.
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- A quasigroup with an identity element.
- The opening so formed.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
verb
- To move in a loop.
- To move something in a loop.
- To place in a loop.
- To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- To form something into a loop.
- To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- To form a loop.
noun
- The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A hamburger.
- A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A playful bite.
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- A short turn in a rope.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
verb
- To squeeze or pinch.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To taunt.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
noun
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
verb
- 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.
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
noun
- A secondary road, especially a byroad at right angles to a main road.
- A line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.
- Something that is additional or extra or that exists around the edges or margins of a main item.
- Usually in the plural: the area outside the playing field beyond each sideline.
- The outside or perimeter of any activity.
- A line at the side of something.
- A line defining the side boundary of a playing field. Used in Canadian football, field lacrosse and basketball.
verb
verb
- To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- To supply with corners.
- To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
noun
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- A cornerback.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- A corner kick.
- First base or third base.
- Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
noun
- The circular path formed by the wheel furthest from the centre of the turn when turning to the maximum extent.
- The path followed by a vessel’s center of gravity when it makes a complete turn of 360° with a consistent rudder angle. (FM 55-501)
- A place where a vehicle can turn and face in the opposite direction.
adj
verb
- To rotate, to move in a circle.
- To circumvent or to outmanoeuvre someone.
- To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
- To go around the side of sth., to bypass something.
- To go to another person's home or a public event.
- To circulate, to move aimlessly but ghostly (threateningly and invisibly).
- To physically swirl or rotate.
- To evade sth.
- To pass around, to circulate sth.
- To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification)
noun
- an alleyway or side street.
- A road drain.
- A small valley.
- A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
- A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
- A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
- A large knife.
- A drop kerb.
verb
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
- Turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise.
- Intended to be worn on, or used by, the right hand.
- Of a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion.
- Of a coordinate system: following the right-hand rule.
- Using their right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, their left.
noun
verb
- To move in a circle.
- To center (around).
- To circle or revolve around another object or position.
- To place an object (e.g. a satellite) into an orbit around a planet.
- To move around the general vicinity of something.
- To continue to follow and/or engage with someone via social media after breaking up with them.
noun
- A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
- A path for the ball on the outer edge of the playfield, usually connected so that the ball entering in one end will come out of the other.
- The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members of a specified group of transformations that act on X.
- A state of increased excitement, activity, or anger.
- A sphere of influence; an area or extent of activity, interest, or control.
- The path of an electron around an atomic nucleus.
- One complete circuit round an orbited body.
- The state of moving in an orbit.
- The area around the eye of a bird or other animal.
- The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
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