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单词 circling
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circlingn.

/ˈsəːklɪŋ/
Etymology: < circle v.
1.
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a. Formation of a circle or circles.
b. quasi-concrete. A circular formation.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > circularity > a circle > a circular formation
circling1430
row1576
ring1587
rounda1600
circularity1646
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xiii Within the cerclynge of her eyen bryght was paradise.
1646 A. Henderson in Macrie Life (1846) 54 While Archimedes was drawing his figures and circlings in the sand.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 176 Diving swans appear Above the crystal circlings white and clear.
2.
a. Movement in a circle; revolution.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in circle
umganga1300
umganginga1340
circlingc1440
compassing1530
circuition1533
circulation1535
round1539
circumgyration1606
rounding1612
circuling1647
circuiting1659
circumagitation1660
circuity1770
ringing1868
milling1874
circumfluence1881
ring-a-ring1922
mill1961
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 453/2 Serclynge, Circulacio.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie i. sig. Aa In the circlings of the fore-said River.
1864 Glasg. Daily Herald 24 Sept. I don't see how circling with the trawl among drift-nets should do any harm.
1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades iii. 40 The circling of the suns.
b. spec. (See quot.)
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1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxiii. 536 The savages attacked in the manner known as ‘circling’—that is, riding round and round the whites, hanging on the opposite side of their horses so as to be shielded.
3. = circuition n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > periphrasis or circumlocution
circumlocution?1518
ambage1532
periphrasis1533
circuition1542
circuit1552
notation1555
compassing1580
periphrase1589
ambush1601
encompassment1604
circumambulation1606
circling1623
perambulationa1652
roundaboutness1810
roundaboutation1812
ambagiosity1819
circumambulating1837
peripherization1926
1623 W. Sclater Quæstion of Tythes 9 Say if you can without circling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

circlingadj.

Etymology: formed as circle v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcircling.
1.
a. Encircling.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [adjective]
circumjacent1490
circumstant1545
circumvoisin1548
environing?a1560
encompassing1571
ambient1572
succingent1578
embracing1590
circling1594
girdling1598
circumdant1600
rounding1600
all round?1611
circumferent1620
circumsistent1625
circuiting1632
circulating1632
encircling1632
surrounding1637
begirting1645
circumambient1648
circumstantial1650
girding1658
skirtingc1735
entwining1737
circumadjacent1780
belting1808
engirdling1843
encyclic1850
engirding1852
zoning1853
roundaboutc1860
begirding1877
wraparound1957
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iv. 19 Her two branches..Whose cyrcling shadowes, Kings haue sought to sleepe in. View more context for this quotation
1616 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliad xi, in Whole Wks. Homer 156 Their world circling Sire, (Great Neptune).
1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman ii. 50 He dwelt in Bright Maria's Circling Arms.
1877 F. J. Furnivall Leopold Shakspere Introd. 117 See the town nestle under its circling hills.
b. Forming a circle; ranged in a circle.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [adjective] > forming a circle or ring
circling1724
round1783
1724–7 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. Ded. Treat a' the circling lugs wi' sound.
1733 J. Swift On Poetry 17 To whom the Tribe of circling Wits, As to an Oracle submits.
1799 R. Southey Sonn. x Scarce doth..The elder yet its circling tufts put forth.
1849 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 17 My station whence the circling land Lies mapped and pictured wide below.
2. Moving in a circle; revolving.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [adjective] > moving in circle
circularc1450
round1565
circumfluent1583
circling1599
circumferential1610
circumferent1620
circulating1632
compassing1638
circuline1647
circumambient1648
ambient1655
surrounding1657
gyrous1688
rounding1708
whirl-about1786
circumgyratory1835
gyrant1844
circuiting1886
roundwisea1930
the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [adjective] > passing round
circlinga1839
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. Ev Ile in these meddowes make a cerckling walke.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. Introd. 11 How circling Motion doth swift time divide.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 57 Now too soon for us the circling hours This dreaded time have compast. View more context for this quotation
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 7 Thou merriest soul That ever loved the circling bowl!
3. circling boy n. ‘a species of roarer; one who in some way drew a man into a snare, to cheat or rob him’ (Nares). Obsolete slang.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > decoy
stale1526
barnardc1555
barnacle1591
setter1591
tumbler1602
circling boy1631
moon-curser1673
sweetener1699
stool1825
stool-pigeon1830
bonnet1831
buttoner1839
button1851
steerer1873
plugger1886
shillaber1913
shill1916
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. iii. 57 in Wks. II One Val Cutting, that helpes Captaine Iordan to roare, a circling boy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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