Crossword clues for circulate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Circulate \Cir"cu*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Circulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Circulating.] [L. circulatus, p. p. of circulare, v. t., to surround, make round, circulari, v. i., to gather into a circle. See Circle.]
To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
--Boyle.-
To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.
Circulating decimal. See Decimal.
Circulating library, a library whose books are loaned to the public, usually at certain fixed rates.
Circulating medium. See Medium.
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" is from 1670s; of blood, from 1650s; of persons, "to mingle in a social gathering," from 1863. Sense of "to pass about freely" is from 1660s; of newspapers from 1885. Related: Circulated; circulating.
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 to become widely known
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, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around]
cause to be distributed; "This letter is circulating among the faculty" [syn: pass around, pass on, distribute]
move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point; "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate"
move in circles [syn: circle]
cause to move in a circuit or system; "The fan circulates the air in the room"
move around freely; "She circulates among royalty"
cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" [syn: mobilize, mobilise]
Wikipedia
Circulate was the second solo album of Neil Sedaka after his 1959 debut solo album Rock with Sedaka. Circulate was released in 1961 on RCA and was produced by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner. Except for the title song "Circulate" and "I Found My World In You", the whole album contains covers of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s songs as interpreted by Sedaka. Two of the songs were re-issued as B-sides of other hits: "I Found My World In You" was the B-side of "Sweet Little You" later in 1961, and "Circulate" was the B-side of "Alice In Wonderland" in 1963. Sedaka later recorded Italian-language versions of "Smile" (as "Sorridi") and "All the Way" (as "Si' Amore")
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.