The difference between Bunch and Circle
When used as nouns, bunch means a group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together, whereas circle means a two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
When used as verbs, bunch means to gather into a bunch, whereas circle means to travel around along a curved path.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bunch and Circle
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Bunch as a noun:
A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
Examples:
"a bunch of grapes;  a bunch of bananas;  a bunch of keys;  nowrap a bunch of yobs on a street corner"
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Bunch as a noun (cycling):
The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
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Bunch as a noun:
An informal body of friends.
Examples:
"He still hangs out with the same bunch."
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Bunch as a noun (US, informal):
A considerable amount.
Examples:
"a bunch of trouble"
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Bunch as a noun (informal):
An unmentioned amount; a number.
Examples:
"A bunch of them went down to the field."
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Bunch as a noun (forestry):
A group of logs tied together for skidding.
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Bunch as a noun (geology, mining):
An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
Examples:
"rfquotek Page"
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Bunch as a noun (textiles):
The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
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Bunch as a noun:
An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
Examples:
"Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch."
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Bunch as a noun:
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
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Bunch as a verb (transitive):
To gather into a bunch.
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Bunch as a verb (transitive):
To gather fabric into folds.
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Bunch as a verb (intransitive):
To form a bunch.
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Bunch as a verb (intransitive):
To be gathered together in folds
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Bunch as a verb (intransitive):
To protrude or swell
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Circle as a noun (geometry):
A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
Examples:
"synonyms: coiq1=not in mathematical use ring q2=not in mathematical use loop q3=not in mathematical use"
"The set of all points (x, y) such that (x-1)<sup>2</sup> + y<sup>2</sup> = r<sup>2</sup> is a circle of radius r around the point (1, 0)."
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Circle as a noun:
A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.
Examples:
"synonyms: disc disk q2=in mathematical and general use round q3=not in mathematical use; UK & Commonwealth only"
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Circle as a noun:
Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
Examples:
"Put on your dunce-cap and sit down on that circle."
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Circle as a noun:
A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
Examples:
"synonyms: arc curve"
"move in a circle'"
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Circle as a noun:
Orbit.
Examples:
"synonyms: orbit"
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Circle as a noun:
A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
Examples:
"synonyms: bunch gang group"
"inner circle'"
"'circle of friends"
"literary circle'"
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Circle as a noun (cricket):
A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
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Circle as a noun (Wicca):
A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
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Circle as a noun (South Africa):
A traffic circle or roundabout.
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Circle as a noun (obsolete):
Compass; circuit; enclosure.
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Circle as a noun (astronomy):
An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
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Circle as a noun:
A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
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Circle as a noun (logic):
A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
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Circle as a noun:
Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
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Circle as a noun:
A territorial division or district.
Examples:
"The ten Circles of the Holy Roman Empire were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet."
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Circle as a noun (in the plural):
A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
Examples:
"After working all night, she had circles under her eyes."
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Circle as a verb (transitive):
To travel around along a curved path.
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Circle as a verb (transitive):
To surround.
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Circle as a verb (transitive):
To place or mark a circle around.
Examples:
"Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for."
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Circle as a verb (intransitive):
To travel in circles.
Examples:
"Vultures circled overhead."