different between circle vs stripe

English

Etymology

From Middle English circle, cercle, from Old French cercle and Latin circulus, diminutive of Latin circus (“circle, circus”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to Old English hring (“ring”). Compare also Old English ?ircul (“circle, zodiac”), which came from the same Latin source.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sûr?-k?l, IPA^(key): /?s??k?l/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?s??.k??]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?s?.k??]
• Rhymes: -??(?)k?l
• Homophone: cercal
• Hyphenation: cir?cle

Noun

circle (plural circles)

1. (geometry) 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).

   Synonyms: (not in mathematical use) coil, (not in mathematical use) ring, (not in mathematical use) loop

2. 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.

   Synonyms: disc, (in mathematical and general use) disk, (not in mathematical use; UK & Commonwealth only) round

3. Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.

   Children, please join hands and form a circle.

   1. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.

   2. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.

4. A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.

   Synonyms: bunch, gang, group

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.

5. The orbit of an astronomical body.
6. (cricket) 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.
7. (Wicca) 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.
8. (South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.
9. (obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.
10. (astronomy) 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.
11. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.

    • Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain.

12. (logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
    • 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing

      That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing.

13. Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
    • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

      Has he given the lie, / In circle, or oblique, or semicircle.

14. A territorial division or district.

15. (in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.

Derived terms

Related terms

• circular
• circulate
• circus

Descendants

• Pitcairn-Norfolk: sirkil

Translations

Verb

circle (third-person singular simple present circles, present participle circling, simple past and past participle circled)

1. (transitive) To travel around along a curved path.

   The wolves circled the herd of deer.
2. (transitive) To surround.

   A high fence circles the enclosure.

   • 1699, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions

     Their heads are circled with a short turban.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Dungeon

     So he lies, circled with evil.

3. (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.

   Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for.

4. (intransitive) To travel in circles.

   Vultures circled overhead.

Derived terms

• circle the drain

Translations

Anagrams

• cleric

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German stripe, Dutch strippen

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st(?)?a?p/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /st(?)???p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Noun

stripe (plural stripes)

1. A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.

2. A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
   • 8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus

     At first, what mattered was the sparky contents of Sontag’s head; by the end she was best known for the way she wore her hair – that saturnine battle helmet of dyed black, with a single stripe left white at the temple like a Frankensteinian lighting bolt of intellect.

3. (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
4. (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

   persons of the same political stripe

   • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?

     Everyone I spoke to had waved flags at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, had camped out for Diana’s funeral and, in some cases, her ill-fated wedding. (No one mentioned going to Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s now all-but forgotten wedding, and yet the awkward truth is that Harry and Meghan’s marriage is no more significant than that one was, in terms of lineage.) Not being a royalist of any stripe, I’d not been to any of those.

5. A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2,^[1]

     Thou most lying slave,

     Whom stripes may move, not kindness!

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Deuteronomy 25.3,^[2]

     Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed:

   • 1735, James Thomson, The Four Seasons, and Other Poems, London: J. Millan and A. Millar, “Winter,” lines 353-354, p. 21,^[3]

     [Tyrants] at pleasure mark’d him with inglorious stripes;
6. A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
7. (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
8. Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
9. (computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

stripe (third-person singular simple present stripes, present participle striping, simple past and past participle striped)

1. (transitive) To mark with stripes.
2. (transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.
3. (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.

Translations

Related terms

• striped
• stripy
• Stars and Stripes
• striper
• candy striper
• restripe

Translations

Further reading

• stripe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• stripe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• stripe at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Pitres, Presti, Priest, Sprite, esprit, pierst, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, tripes

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.

Noun

stripe f or m (definite singular stripa or stripen, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)

1. a stripe
2. a strip

Derived terms

• flystripe
• Gazastripen
• kyststripe
• landingsstripe

References

• “stripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.

Noun

stripe f (definite singular stripa, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)

1. a stripe
2. a strip

Derived terms

References

• “stripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.