semicircle
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈsɛmɪˌsɜrkl/
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semicírculo
- The children sat in a semicircle on the grass to listen to the storyteller.
- arranged in a semicircle
It's a little box, and there are series of lights arranged in a semicircle at the top of the box.
- It's a little box, and there are series of lights arranged in a semicircle at the top of the box.
Examples
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In front of the stalls, customers squat in semicircles, dining on noodles and dumplings.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's a little box, and there are series of lights arranged in a semicircle at the top of the box.
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There were a bunch of older men sitting in a semicircle at his feet.
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We were walking side by side in a vague semicircle around the empty tennis court.
Fiction book (1995) -
The girls each find their place in a semicircle around the jacuzzi.
Fiction book (1995) -
They lay the net in a big semicircle.
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Later, another staff member laid a fire in the dining room and set a semicircle of chairs around the fireplace.
Academic text (2004) -
The others in the set stood waiting in a semicircle for another coat and sanding.
Fiction book (1993) -
The U.N. soldiers stood in a protective semicircle backed by a broad wall overlooking the river.
Fiction book (1998) -
A small clump of people huddled in a semicircle, close but not touching.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
A curved shape like half a circle
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Semicircle comes from the parts semi- 'half' and circle 'round shape'. The semi- part is the same as in semifinal, so semicircle means one half of a circle, with the straight diameter across and the curved arc around it.