Definitions
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- v. To bear or carry around.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To bear or carry round.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To limit; keep within bounds.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They varied in size from tiny globular structures no bigger than his fist to giants four meters in circumfer-ence.
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Barckley's reference to Man falls within the circumfer - ence of the generalization by Guillaume de la Perrière in Les considérations des quatres mondes (1552): Or est en l'hõme (par la resolution de tous bons autheurs) le vray & merueilleux lien de deux Natures, spirituelles
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Recall for him/her that the formula for the circumfer - ence of a circle is C = d (times the diameter).
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Ac - Israel given in the Book of Num - connects with a superior circumfer - dares rouse him?
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical - and precisely programmable - circumfer ...
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When one wheel moves another in either of these ways, the velocities of their circumfer - ences are equal; and therefore their angular velo - cities, or the number of revolutions which they make in the same time, are inversely as their ra - dii.
Outlines of Natural Philosophy: Being Heads of Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh
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On the north there is another ifland of an indiflferent height, and of a fomewhat larger circumfer - ence than the great high ifland laft-mentioned.
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After leaving this riTer, th banks of Red river are eane as before for about twenty miles, when you come to the round prairie, right side, about five miles in circumfer - ence.
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010-111 A standard site for the measurement of circumfer - ences is the A.
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The market-place, called El Campo, is 700 paces in circumfer - ence, furrounded by a great number of r'xivents, and is the place where the fairs k "kept.
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