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circulate
[ sur-kyuh-leyt ]
verb (used without object)
- to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point:
Blood circulates throughout the body.
- to pass from place to place, from person to person, etc.:
She circulated among her guests.
- to be distributed or sold, especially over a wide area.
Synonyms: promulgate, lay, disperse
- Library Science. (of books and other materials) to be available for borrowing by patrons of a library for a specified period of time.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to pass from place to place, person to person, etc.; disseminate; distribute:
to circulate a rumor.
- Library Science. to lend (books and other materials) to patrons of a library for a specified period of time.
circulate
/ ˈsɜːkjʊˌleɪt /
verb
- to send, go, or pass from place to place or person to person
don't circulate the news
- to distribute or be distributed over a wide area
- to move or cause to move through a circuit, system, etc, returning to the starting point
blood circulates through the body
- to move in a circle
the earth circulates around the sun
circulate
/ sûr′kyə-lāt′ /
- To move in or flow through a circle or a circuit. Blood circulates through the body as it flows out from the heart to the tissues and back again.
Derived Forms
- ˈcirculatory, adjective
- ˈcircuˌlator, noun
- ˈcircuˌlative, adjective
Other Words From
- circu·lata·ble adjective
- cir·cu·la·tive [sur, -ky, uh, -ley-tiv, -l, uh, -tiv], adjective
- cir·cu·la·to·ry [sur, -ky, uh, -l, uh, -tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], adjective
- inter·circu·late verb intercirculated intercirculating
- non·circu·lating adjective
- non·circu·la·tory adjective
- pre·circu·late verb precirculated precirculating
- re·circu·late verb recirculated recirculating
- un·circu·lated adjective
- un·circu·lating adjective
- un·circu·lative adjective
- well-circu·lated adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of circulate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of circulate1
Example Sentences
It takes a few weeks for immunity to build, so by the time the virus really starts circulating you’re already protected.
Twitter users recently circulated a photo of what was believed to be the same boat, taken at a recent campaign event for the President.
In late October 2019, social-media users once again expressed anger after photos began circulating of a school’s students wearing brainwave-monitoring headbands, supposedly to improve their focus and learning.
Create value-added and engaging content to make sure your website actively circulates SERPs.
By 2016, it was the dominant form of influenza virus circulating in tested pigs.
In medicine, Lazarus is the patient who, believed dead, spontaneously starts to circulate blood.
And when a fraudulent work hits the marketplace, it tends to circulate.
Skinnier hawkers stealthily circulate cooking queijo cualho (toasted cheese on a stick) in makeshift tin kettles.
The exhibit began traveling across the country in December and will circulate through nine cities until 2014.
But hell stories circulate most prominently among various stripes of evangelical Christians who fear ending up there.
The three groups necessarily include all in the community who circulate money.
As already indicated, money may be said to circulate only when it passes in exchange for goods.
Both styles and variations of them circulate widely in New Zealand among children and adolescents.
The blazing fire again made the blood circulate through his numbed limbs, and dried his clothes.
It is our duty to spare no pains to circulate information, and to spread the truth far and wide.
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