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circulate
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to move in circles or through a circuit 2 (context transitive English) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit 3 to move from person to person, as at a party 4 to spread or disseminate 5 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circulate \Cir"cu*late\, 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. Circulating pump . See under Pump . Syn: To spread; diffuse; propagate; disseminate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s (late 15c. as a past participle adjective), as a chemical term for alternating vaporization and condensation, from Latin circulatus , past participle of circulare "to form a circle," from circulus (see circle (n.)). Meaning "to move around, revolve" ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" [syn: go around , spread ] cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circularize , circularise , distribute ...
Usage examples of circulate.
The way that extreme service works k best exemplified by a story that has been circulating in advertising and marketing circles for years.
James Warburg affidavit is not aimed at the original boo but rather at an anti-Semitic book circulated over a decade later.
Spies had been circulated about Alb to spread the rumor that Penvey was to be attacked.
Stories circulated that this allegation made a number of moderate Republicans more inclined to vote against Clinton, but of the 45 Republicans who saw the secret documents, only two were undecided.
Faraday generator and supported internal circulating currents of five million amperes with a power dissipation of a thousand billion watts.
Each time the circulating nurse returned to the OR, he expected her to spread the news that there had been a terrible anesthetic complication.
It is certain that when at Madrid he had aspired to win the good graces of a Spanish Infanta, and on that subject reports were circulated with which I have nothing to do, because I never had any opportunity of ascertaining their truth.
This country is flooded with cheap circulars and pamphlets, circulated openly and broadcast, wherein ignorant, pretentious, blatant quacks endeavor to frighten young men who may never have practiced self-abuse, or been guilty of excesses in any way, and yet who experience, now and then at long intervals, nocturnal seminal emissions.
During the night rumors had circulated that troops were about to march or were already on their way from Sevres and Saint-Denis to crush the Paris rising.
He also appreciated the need for a successful government to have its own organs of press propaganda, cheaply priced and widely circulated so as to avoid surrendering the field to perpetual oppositions.
They reported favorably to the succeeding convention at Buffalo, which adopted the report, and I published and circulated it.
Raeburn, and consequently had heard enough of the truth about him to disbelieve the gross libels which were constantly being circulated by the unscrupulous among his opponents.
I was amused at the false reports which were being circulated about me, and, I became from that moment a thorough sceptic on the subject of historical truth.
The prelate, feeling the force of these animadversions, circulated a pamphlet in which it appeared that the midwife had made three prior appearances before the judge, and that she would have been sent to the gallows long ago if the archbishop had not hesitated to shame three of the noblest families in Bologna, whose names appeared in documents in the custody of his chancellor.
Then a vice detective in Portsmouth thought he might recognize the circulated photograph, despite the damage and discoloration.