CIRQUE Synonyms

• a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake

• ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point

• an unofficial association of people or groups

• something approximating the shape of a circle

• movement once around a course

• a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island

• street names for flunitrazepam

• a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra

• any circular or rotating mechanism

• travel around something

• move in a circular path above (someone or something)

• form or draw a circle around

• a characteristic sound

• a toroidal shape

• a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling

• (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop

• an association of criminals

• the sound of a bell ringing

• a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle

• jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger

• a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)

• sound loudly and sonorously

• ring or echo with sound

• make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification

• get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

• extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

• attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify

• A valley, often wooded and often with no river

• A cirque.