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every morning. 4 encircle, surround, gird, enclose,
circumscribe: Twenty small diamonds circle each star sapphire.
circuit n. 1 compass, circumference, perimeter, periphery, girth,
border, boundary, edge, limit, ambit, margin, outline,
confine(s), bound, pale: The circuit of the area amounts to 72
miles. 2 round, tour, ambit, circle, orbit, course, lap: The
rider completed the circuit of the ranch, mending the fence as
he went.
circular adj. 1 round, disc-shaped or chiefly US disk-shaped, disc-like
or chiefly US disk-like, discoid; ring-shaped, ring-like,
annular: Notice the circular pattern of growth of this ivy. 2
roundabout, indirect, circuitous, tortuous, twisting, twisted,
anfractuous; periphrastic, circumlocutory; devious: We had to
take a circular route because the road was closed. Why can't she
say what she means instead of being so circular? 3 illogical,
inconsistent, redundant, fallacious, irrational, Formal
sophistic or sophistical: To say that you exist because you
think and that you think because you exist is an example of
circular reasoning.
circulate v. 1 move or go about or round or around, orbit, flow, course,
run, circle: The blood circulates from the heart through the
arteries and veins and back to the heart. 2 spread, distribute,
disseminate, issue, publish, air, announce, proclaim, make
known, noise abroad, bruit about, report, broadcast, reveal,
divulge, advertise, publicize, promulgate, put about, bring or
put out, pass out or round or around: He has been circulating
the story that his ex-wife cheated on her income tax. 3 spread,
go round or around, be bruited about, come out: A rumour has
been circulating about your behaviour at the office party.
circulation
n. 1 circuit, course, orbit, flow, flowing, motion: It was
Harvey who discovered the circulation of the blood. 2 spread,
spreading, dissemination, transmission, passage, distribution,
diffusion, publication, advertisement, announcement, issuance,
issuing, pronouncement, proclamation, promulgation, broadcast,
broadcasting: The state has again forbidden the free
circulation of information.
circumstance