The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric. From LearnThat.org. [James Joyce (1882-1941).]
concentric rings. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
SHEPHERD: We often see an intensification phase when we see these regenerating eye walls, what we call concentric eye walls. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2004] Reference
Arrange plums in concentric circles on top, leaving about 1/2-inch (1 cm) between circles. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
Like this for Israeli: in concentric circles, feet flying, every other person off the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman] Reference
As Asian immigration radiated outward in concentric circles from Monterey Park, the culture wars moved to new staging grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull] Reference
These depressions, called salt pans, are characterized by concentric rings of special vegetation that can tolerate these highly salty conditions. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Eccentric muscle training helps glucose tolerance more than concentric, which is what you get walking uphill both ways. From Wordnik.com. [Hate mail] Reference
concentric circles of security that you try to plan for, you try to do assessments, you try to do that kind of concentric circles. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2001] Reference
In many instances this has encouraged a shift away from 'concentric' or. From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
Amy rolled her wrists in small, concentric circles. From Wordnik.com. [Adults at Home] Reference
But it's protected, for good reason, by a series of concentric walls. From Wordnik.com. [Arjuna Ardagh: Why It Is Wise to Worship a Woman] Reference
The concentric annual or yearly rings which appear on the end face of. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
And this paragraph seems to live within a maze of concentric contradictions. From Wordnik.com. [WikiLeaks War Diary Prompts Bored Media To Finally Admit Afghanistan Is Not Going Well] Reference
A few concentric ripples widened, travelled towards him, and were absorbed in the current. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
In the middle of the lantern was the large concentric-ringed glass of great magnifying power. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
"We call it 'concentric circle' travel — you travel in an area that's close to you," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Our Time Off] Reference
The room spun in woozy concentric circles around it but the drain stayed centered, like a pivot. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow's Trailer] Reference
There should be between them harmony as sweet as that which moves the concentric rings of Saturn. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"The ever-increasing concentric circles of poverty are not only morally wrong, they can be dangerous.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sage Of Indianapolis] Reference
RHINEBECK, N.Y. -- In the vast concentric circles of Clintonian friendship, a new vocabulary defines coolness. From Wordnik.com. [Chelsea Clinton's wedding: A very inviting proposition? Not for some VIPs.] Reference
The field in a simple glaucoma is apt to approach concentric limitation; namely, more like the field in simple atrophy. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
It occupies three sides of a parallelogram, has a handsome chapel, and a great cistern vaulted with concentric circles. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
A maple tree, over the pit, being cut down, two hundred and fifty concentric circles were counted, making the mound to be A. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Drivers from the northwest have to navigate its rings of concentric circular highways to get to coastal ports or to head south. From Wordnik.com. [China Traffic Jam Could Last Weeks] Reference
Acuvue Bifocal lenses, made by Vistakon, are made with five concentric viewing zones, which alternate like the rings on a bull's-eye. From Wordnik.com. [Health Briefs] Reference
The Cube is full of quirky designs, like the “pebble drop” headliner with concentric, raised circles and the asymmetrical rear window. From Wordnik.com. [Nissan Cube—Getting inside the box] Reference
Ever-widening circles were somewhere, widening and pulsating bigger, concentric circles forming out of larger concentric circles, on and on. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, So This Is What LSD Feels Like] Reference
The concentric ring of canals that make up the old city are extensions of the routes that led to China, India, and the southern tip of Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Globalization’s First Outpost] Reference
In the centre of this incomplete circle, there was described a luminous disc, surrounded by the prismatic colours displayed in concentric rings. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Working in acrylic on panel, he plays inventive variations on the theme of the concentric circle, evoking the divisions and metastasizing of cells. From Wordnik.com. [ArtScene: Catch Them Before They Close: Top Current Exhibitions in the Northwest] Reference
By means of this fixed centre-point any number of concentric circles may be drawn, without making a hole of very distinguishable size on the paper. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
It is obvious that the points of the teeth and the bottoms of the spaces, as well as the pitch circle, are concentric to the axis of the wheel bore. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
There are in addition an oil pressure gauge, a petrol pressure gauge, a glass petrol level and two concentric glass pressure gauges for gas pressure. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
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