circle /'SX'tol/ [u I/T] ESPECIALLY WRTTTEN to
move around someone or something in a circle: The plane circled the airport seueral times before landing. + around/above Seagulls were circling above the cliffs.
orbit /'хЬЩ [v T] to go around the Earth, the Moon, the Sun etc in a continuous circular movement: a TV satellite that orbits the Earth every 48 hours
ARRIVE
opposite leave
see also late/not late, early
D to arrive somewhere
arrive /э'гшу/ [и i] to get to the place you were going to: И/hat time do you think well arrive?
arrive at the house/hotei/airport etc It
was already dark by the time they
arrived at their hotel.
arrive in France/Tokyo etc The British
Prime Minister arrived in Tokyo today. arrive he re/the re/back/ho me When I first arrived here none of the other students would talk to me. + from They were the first refugees to arrive from Bosnia.
A Don't say 'arrive to' a place. Say arrive at (a building or public place) or arrive in
(a city or country).
/t\ Don't say 'arrive at home' or 'arrive to home'. Say arrive home
Д Arrive is more formal than get to.
get to /'get tin/ [phrasaJ verb T] to arrive at a place: It'll take us about half an hour to get to the airport. get back to I'll call her when I get back to Chicago.
get there/here/ho me What time do you usually get home in the evening? 1 /
want to get there before the stores close.
come /клт/ [v 1] if someone or something comes, they arrive at the place where you are waiting for them: When the visitors come, bring them up to my office. I Has the mail come yet?
come home What time is Dad coming home?
coming - came - have come
reach /riitjy [v T] to arrive at a place, especially after a long or difficult journey: It took them over three days to reach the top of the mountain. I On March 3rd the US 1st Army finally reached Cologne.
Ж Don't say 'reach to' or 'reach at'.
Qbe here bi: hor/ spoken you say someone is here when they have arrived at the place where you are waiting for them: Susan, your friends are here. I Is Nick here yet?
turn up/show up ,t3:rn лр, Jou лр 1 phrasal verb 1] informal to arrive - use this about someone you are expecting to arrive, especially when they arrive late: Steve turned up half an hour late as usual. I Some of the people I invited
never showed up.
a plane, ship, or train arrives
arrive ,Vraiv [и 1] The plane arrived two hours late.
A
+ in/at//rom a train arriving in Osaka at 5.30 I Planes carrying military supplies have been arriving at the airbase.
Arrive is more formal than get in
get in 'get 'in [phrasa/ verb I] to arrive - use this when you are talking about the time when a train, ship, or plane arrives: What time does your train get in? + to The ferry gets in to Milwaukee around noon.
Land kend [v I) if a plane lands, it arrives at an airport
+ at When the plane landed at JFK. it was three hours late. + in What time do you land In Miami? come in to land (=go down slowly towards the ground at an airport) There's a plane coming m to land now.
^^ Planes land at an airport, or land in a city or country.
COme in ,клт in, [phrasa/ verb I] if а plane, ship, or train comes in. it arrives in the place where you are waiting: Crowds had gathered at the harbour to watch the ship come in. I Has the Air India flight come in yet?
when someone or
something arrives
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ARRIVE
arrival o'raiv^l [n singular. U] sb's arrival Joe's sudden arrival spoiled all our p/ans.
tke arrival of sb/stK We apologize for
the late arrival of flight 605. + at/in TV crews filming President Mandela's arrival at the airport I the
day after our arrival in Paris
on arrival (=when someone arrives) She
was rushed to the hospital but was found to be dead on arrival.
В to arrive somewhere without intending to
end up end 'лр [phrasa/ verb I] to arrive in a place that you did not intend to go to + in/at I fell asleep on the bus and ended up in Denver. I We had planned to go straight home, but we all ended up at Tom 's place.
COme tO Sth 'k\m tin (sth) [phrasal uerb Tj to arrive at a place during a journey, without knowing that you would arrive there We were walking through the forest when we came to о waterfall.
INT ф DO
Л 1 /
^^ see ^^
PICTURE
see also
MUSIC
кпш ф drj
Use come to especially when you are writing stories.
ART
RLMS/MOVIES PAINT _ A _ 03 OPINIONS
THEATRE
design
decorate ф draw books/literature
something that an artist has produced
art a:rt [n Uj a way of representing things or exoressing ideas, using pictures, sculpture. and other objects that people can iook at: a book about German art in the 19th century I Is a pile of bricks in a gallery really art? I What kind of art do you like?
work of art >з:гк ov a:rt [n Cj something produced by an artist, especially something that most people agree is of very high quality: Several priceless works
of art were bacf/v damaged when the palace was bombed.
plural works of art
work /w3irk/ In CI a picture, statue, sculpture etc - use this especially when you are
also saying who the artist was: David Hockney's latest work has just gone on display. I Her later works reflected her growing depression.
masterpiece /'maist^piisllmaes-/ [n С] a
You can use work of art work, and
masterpiece about any kind of art.
portrait /'px'tr&tj [n C] a picture of a person
picture, statue etc that is of extremely high quality, especially one that is believed to be the best work of a particular artist: one of the great Italian masterpieces I Many people regard this painting as Raphael's masterpiece.