circling
Meaning of circling
adjective
- moving in a circle; revolving.
a circling helicopter
- move all the way around (someone or something), especially more than once.
they were circling Athens airport
we circled round the island
Old English, from Old French cercle, from Latin circulus ‘small ring’, diminutive of circus ‘ring’.
Information about circling
- The plural form of circling is: circlings.
- Languages in which circling is used:
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Hyphenation of circling
cir-cling
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- circling is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
circling synonyms
Meaning (of a bird or aircraft) fly in a wide circle or curve:
Meaning move in a circular orbit around:
Meaning move or cause to move in a circle round an axis or centre:
Meaning move or cause to move rapidly round and round:
Meaning move in a spiral course:
Meaning move or cause to move rapidly in a circle or spiral:
Meaning sail or travel all the way around (something, especially the world):
Meaning (of a celestial object or spacecraft) move in orbit round (a star or planet):
Meaning walk all the way round (something):
Words that rhyme with circling
Ling, Coaling, Ealing, annealing, antiwhaling, appealing, autodialing, avaling, backpedaling, baling, bealing, berascaling, canaling, capitaling, charcoaling, coaling, concealing, congealing, countersealing, craaling, credentialing, crystaling, dealing, descaling, dialing, downscaling, embaling, empaling, ensealing, equaling, exhaling, fealing, foaling, forepaling, gealing, gimbaling, goaling, haling, healing, impaling, inhaling, initialing, instealing, interdealing, intervaling, journaling, keelhaling, kraaling, lateraling, localing
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