semicircle

Converse of object

• form: My companions and I stopped walking, and turning around, I saw the crewmen form a semicircle around their leader.
• make: A young shoot made a semicircle in 24 hrs.
• intersect: Where Lines MO and NO intersect this semicircle read and values along the short curves on the scale of the inner semicircle.
• describe: The huge semicircle described by the old A32 to do the same job seems very silly!
• cut: The shoe is a rectangular piece of wood with a semicircle cut into the far side so that it fits snugly around a disk.
• have: The resort has semicircle shaped facing East, eight kilometers of golden sand covered beach.

Converse of subject

• shelter: The harbor is sheltered by a semicircle of mountains.

Preposition: around

• city: Our lines made a large semicircle around the city of Taegu.

Adjective modifier

• large: Known as the New Cut, there is a large semicircle cut out of the parallel sides to allow the turning of large boats.
• other: Whereupon the semicircle a became bordered with Violet above, Scarlet below; but the other semicircle b quite con trary.
• neat: Sit in the shade, and take inspiration from a bubbling fountain and a neat semicircle of noble Belgian statuary.
• upper: The upper semicircle of each node on the comparison diagram summarizes these features.
• huge: The huge semicircle described by the old A32 to do the same job seems very silly!

Modifies a noun

• round: In a semicircle round the clearing stood the tents of the great functionaries of Bokhara.

Preposition: in

• front: The jury was escorted in and lined up in a semicircle in front of the judge's bench.

Preposition: of

• tree: There is also before the semicircle of the trees just mentioned a large vacant space, where the soldiers are exercised.
• mountain: The harbor is sheltered by a semicircle of mountains.