n
A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
adj
Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
adv
So as to surround or be near.
adv
Obsolete form of around. [So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.]
v
(intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
n
(obsolete) A circling motion; a rotation.
v
(transitive) To place or mark a circle around.
v
Alternative form of circle-strafe [(intransitive, video games) To move around a target in circular fashion while facing it, in order to avoid counterattacks while attacking at close range.]
v
To draw a wagon train into a circle to allow the wagons to provide cover when under attack.
v
(intransitive, video games) To move around a target in circular fashion while facing it, in order to avoid counterattacks while attacking at close range.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To travel around.
n
(archaic) The act of going round; a circuit, an encircling.
v
To distribute circulars to or at.
v
(transitive) To distribute a circular or circulars to.
v
(mathematics) Of decimals: to repeat.
adj
(obsolete) Proceeding in a circle; circular.
v
(transitive) To agitate on all sides.
v
(transitive) To walk around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
n
(obsolete) The act of running about.
v
(archaic, law, Scotland, transitive) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
v
(law, obsolete) To contravene; to nullify.
n
(Scotland, law) The act of circumducing.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To bear or carry around.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To include in a circular space; to bound.
adj
(obsolete) blowing around
v
(transitive) To mark with a circumflex; hence to accentuate or emphasize.
n
A winding about; a turning or fold.
n
A flowing round on all sides; an enclosing with fluid.
v
To spread round; to surround.
v
(intransitive) To make circuits (around an area or space).
n
circling, wheeling (around)
v
Obsolete form of circumgyrate. [(intransitive) To move around something.]
v
(transitive) To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail.
v
(botany) to bend in a direction that is continuously moving in a horizontal direction
v
(obsolete) To put round; to place around; to place or arrange circularly.
v
(transitive) To sail completely around.
v
(geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
v
To flow around as waves or undulations
n
(archaic) The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.
v
Alternative form of circumvent [(transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass]
v
(transitive) to surround or besiege
n
The act of flying round.
v
To roll, curl or twist around
v
(transitive) To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.
adj
That consists of a closed circuit
v
(intransitive) To circulate together.
n
A corner or external angle.
v
To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
v
(transitive) To supply with corners.
n
A pub on the corner of two roads; a pub that is very near - one's local (just around the corner)
v
(figuratively, by extension) To go through figurative barriers; to go beyond an expected boundary.
v
(transitive) To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
adj
Obsolete form of intertissued. [interwoven]
v
(often military) To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.
n
environment; surroundings
v
Obsolete spelling of environed: simple past tense and past participle of environ.
v
(informal) To be nearby or available.
v
(obsolete) to encompass or surround something
v
(intransitive) To circulate (in).
v
(idiomatic) Do something (especially talking) circuitously.
v
To circumvent or to outmanoeuvre someone.
v
Alternative form of go around the houses [(idiomatic) Do something (especially talking) circuitously.]
v
To circulate from one place to another.
v
(intransitive, usually of a group of people) To move or circulate in a confused or disorderly manner within a limited area.
adj
(Britain, of traffic) Arranged in close formation, one behind the other.
v
To move around the general vicinity of something.
v
(transitive) Of a vehicle: to corner better than.
v
(transitive) To surround as an outskirt.
adj
(forensics) Very close; not touching but not more than a few metres (yards).
v
(transitive, intransitive) To circle again.
v
(intransitive) To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body).
v
To be connected with; to concern.
v
To call a number of people by phone, usually a circle of friends, to organise something.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
adv
In a repeated circular motion.
v
(US, dated) To round up (cattle) by riding around them.
v
(transitive) To gather (cattle) together by riding around them.
v
To turn and attack a potential attacker
adj
Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
v
(intransitive) To become round or rounded
v
alternative form of run circles around [To outperform by a great margin.]
v
(transitive, intransitive) To travel or move around in a semicircle.
v
To circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid.
v
(idiomatic) Synonym of talk in circles
adj
(of a person) Acting or appearing on the street corner
v
(transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
n
One who, or that which, surrounds.
n
The area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance.
v
To make a complete circuit.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
n
(Now chiefly UK dialectal) A round about; a way around; detour.
n
(obsolete) The circumference or periphery of a circle.
v
simple past tense of go round
v
(transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
adj
Alternative form of wrapround [Synonym of wraparound]
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