circular as a noun: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
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circular
noun
1 circular
An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution:
— He mailed the circular to all subscribers.
synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway.
Roget 592:
correspondence,
letter,
epistle,
note,
billet,
post card,
missive,
circular,
favor,
billet-doux;
chit,
chitty†,
letter card,
picture post card;
postal [U.S.],
card;
despatch;
dispatch;
bulletin,
these presents;
rescript,
rescription†;
post
etc.
(messenger)
534.
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Roget 531:
publication;
public announcement
etc.
527;
promulgation,
propagation,
proclamation,
pronunziamento [It];
circulation,
indiction†,
edition;
hue and cry.
publicity,
notoriety,
currency,
flagrancy,
cry,
bruit,
hype;
vox populi;
report
etc.
(news)
532.
the Press,
public press,
newspaper,
journal,
gazette,
daily;
telegraphy;
publisher
etc.
v.;
imprint.
circular,
circular letter;
manifesto,
advertisement,
ad. ,
placard,
bill,
affiche†,
broadside,
poster;
notice
etc.
527.
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Roget 593:
booklet;
writing,
work,
volume,
tome,
opuscule†;
tract,
tractate†;
livret†;
brochure,
libretto,
handbook,
codex,
manual,
pamphlet,
enchiridion†,
circular,
publication;
chap book.
part,
issue,
number livraison [Fr.];
album,
portfolio;
periodical,
serial,
magazine,
ephemeris,
annual,
journal.
paper,
bill,
sheet,
broadsheet†;
leaf,
leaflet;
fly leaf,
page;
quire,
ream.
[subdivisions of a book]
chapter,
section,
head,
article,
paragraph,
passage,
clause;
endpapers,
frontispiece;
cover,
binding.
folio,
quarto,
octavo;
duodecimo†,
sextodecimo†,
octodecimo†.
encyclopedia;
encompilation†.
[collection of books]
library,
bibliotheca†.
press
etc.
(publication)
531.
[complete description]
definitive work,
treatise,
comprehensive treatise
(dissertation)
595.
[person who writes a book]
writer,
author,
litterateur [Fr.],
essayist,
journalism;
pen,
scribbler,
the scribbling race;
literary hack,
Grub-street writer;
writer for the press,
gentleman of the press,
representative of the press;
adjective jerker†,
diaskeaust†,
ghost,
hack writer,
ink slinger;
publicist;
reporter,
penny a liner;
editor,
subeditor†;
playwright
etc.
599;
poet
etc.
597.
bookseller,
publisher;
bibliopole†,
bibliopolist†;
librarian;
bookstore,
bookshop,
bookseller's shop.
knowledge of books,
bibliography;
book learning
etc.
(knowledge)
490.
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Dutch: circulaire, rondschrijven
adjective
1 circular
Having the shape or form of a circle.
synonym: round.
Roget 247:
round,
rounded,
circular,
annular,
orbicular;
oval,
ovate;
elliptic,
elliptical;
egg-shaped;
pear-shaped
etc.
245;
cycloidal
etc.
n.†;
spherical
etc.
249.
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Roget 245:
curved
etc.
v.;
curviform†,
curvilineal†,
curvilinear;
devex†,
devious;
recurved,
recurvous†;
crump†;
bowed
etc.
v.;
vaulted,
hooked;
falciform†,
falcated†;
semicircular,
crescentic;
sinusoid [Geom.],
parabolic,
paraboloid;
luniform†,
lunular†;
semilunar,
conchoidal†;
helical,
double helical,
spiral;
kinky;
cordiform†,
cordated†;
cardioid;
heart shaped,
bell shaped,
boat shaped,
crescent shaped,
lens shaped,
moon shaped,
oar shaped,
shield shaped,
sickle shaped,
tongue shaped,
pear shaped,
fig shaped;
kidney-shaped,
reniform;
lentiform†,
lenticular;
bow-legged
etc.
(distorted)
243;
oblique
etc.
217;
circular
etc.
247.
aduncated†,
arclike†,
arcuate,
arched,
beaked;
bicorn†,
bicornuous†,
bicornute†;
clypeate†,
clypeiform†;
cymbiform†,
embowed†,
galeiform†;
hamate†,
hamiform†,
hamous†;
hooked;
linguiform†,
lingulate†;
lobiform†,
lunate,
navicular†,
peltate†,
remiform†,
rhamphoid†;
rostrate†,
rostriferous†,
rostroid†;
scutate†,
scaphoid†,
uncate†;
unguiculate†,
unguiform†.
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Polish: kolisty
2 circular
Describing a circle; moving in a circle:
— The circular motion of the wheel.
synonyms: orbitual, rotary.
Polish: obrotowy, wirowy
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