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Definition of Circulate
1. Verb. Become widely known and passed on. "The story went around in the office"
Related verbs: Broadcast, Circularise, Circularize, Diffuse, Disperse, Disseminate, Distribute, Pass Around, Propagate, Spread
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Derivative terms: Spread, Spread
2. Verb. Cause to become widely known. "Broadcast the news"
Generic synonyms: Air, Bare, Publicise, Publicize
Specialized synonyms: Podcast, Sow, Generalise, Generalize, Popularise, Popularize, Vulgarise, Vulgarize, Carry, Run
Causes: Go Around, Spread
Related verbs: Go Around, Spread
Derivative terms: Broadcast, Broadcast, Circular, Circulation, Diffusion, Diffusive, Dispersal, Dispersion, Dispersive, Dissemination, Dissemination, Dissemination, Disseminative, Disseminator, Propagation, Propagator, Spread, Spread, Spread, Spreading
3. Verb. Cause be distributed. "This letter is being circulated among the faculty"
Generic synonyms: Displace, Move
Specialized synonyms: Send Around, Utter, Scatter, Spread, Spread Out
Derivative terms: Circular, Circulation, Circulation, Circulation
4. Verb. Move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point. "The air here does not circulate"
Generic synonyms: Course, Feed, Flow, Run
Derivative terms: Circulation, Circulative
5. Verb. Move in circles.
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Specialized synonyms: Orb, Orbit, Revolve, Troll, Loop, Loop
Derivative terms: Circle, Circle, Circle
6. Verb. Cause to move in a circuit or system. "The fan circulates the air in the room"
Specialized synonyms: Convect
Derivative terms: Circulation, Circulation
7. Verb. Move around freely. "She circulates among royalty"
8. Verb. Cause to move around. "Circulate a rumor"
Causes: Move
Generic synonyms: Displace, Move
Derivative terms: Circulation, Circulation, Circulation
Definition of Circulate
1. v. i. To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
2. v. t. To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.
Definition of Circulate
1. Verb. (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit ¹
3. Verb. to move from person to person, as at a party ¹
4. Verb. to spread or disseminate ¹
5. Verb. to become widely known ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Circulate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
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Literary usage of Circulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"Of how many periodicals do you circulate single numbers? b. How many copies of each?
bers of periodicals. Of the 12 which do not, 3 — Fall River, ..."
2. The Value of Money by Benjamin McAlester Anderson (1917)
"What economic force is there, then, to make them circulate? ... It is, in effect,
saying that the dodo-bones will circulate because they will circulate. ..."
3. Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical by Henry Hughes (1854)
"The class of simple-laborers cannot circulate themselves; because they have not
the capital. ... If circulation is not ordered; some only, circulate. ..."
4. Ethical Obligations of the Lawyer by Gleason Leonard Archer (1910)
"NOT TO circulate SLANDER CONCERNING ADVERSARY. The lawyer owes a duty to the
adverse party not to circulate slanders concerning him. ..."
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