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Word Meanings - CIRCUMFERENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery. Millon. 2. A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton. 3. The external

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1. The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery. Millon. 2. A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton. 3. The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.

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  • DISMISSIVE
    Giving dismission.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • MISMANAGER
    One who manages ill.
  • HORIZONTALLY
    In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
  • EXPAND
    To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
  • CIRCUITOUS
    Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
  • BOTCH
    1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
  • UNFOLDER
    One who, or that which, unfolds.
  • BUNGLER
    A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
  • ENCLOSURE
    Inclosure. See Inclosure. Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure.
  • BOTCHERY
    A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
  • DISPLAYER
    One who, or that which, displays.
  • DISMISS
    1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
  • UNFOLDMENT
    The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.
  • MISCONSTRUER
    One who misconstrues.
  • CIRCUITY
    A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
  • CIRCUITER
    One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge. R. Whitlock.
  • HORIZONTAL
    1. Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. "Horizontal misty air." Milton. 2. Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface. 3. Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance. Horizontal drill,
  • COMPASSABLE
    Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • ENCOMPASSMENT
    The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak.
  • DELIBERATELY
    With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.

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