circulatecir‧cu‧late /ˈsɜːkjəleɪt $ ˈsɜːr-/ ●○○ verb 
Swimming helps to get the blood circulating through the muscles. Ceiling fans circulated warm air around the room.2[intransitive] if information, facts, ideas etc circulate, they become known by many people: Rumours began circulating that the prime minister was seriously ill.3[transitive] to send goods, information etc to people: The group circulated petitions calling for a federal law to ban handguns.4[intransitive] to talk to a lot of different people in a group, especially at a party
WORD ORIGINcirculate
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin past participle of circulare, from circulus; ➔ CIRCLE1VERB TABLE
circulate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | circulate |
| he, she, it | circulates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | circulated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have circulated |
| he, she, it | has circulated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had circulated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will circulate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have circulated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am circulating |
| he, she, it | is circulating | |
| you, we, they | are circulating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was circulating |
| you, we, they | were circulating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been circulating |
| he, she, it | has been circulating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been circulating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be circulating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been circulating |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A list of well-known fraudsters was circulated to all local police chiefs.
- Blood circulates around the body.
- Greenman circulated a petition for the city to install a traffic light last summer.
- Rumors are circulating that the mayor's health is getting worse.
- Rumors began circulating that she was seriously ill.
- Sneed had circulated a letter round the department explaining the new pay cuts.
- The letter was circulated among news organizations nationwide.
- The organization's intranet system allows information to circulate rapidly.
- The propaganda Leary circulated soon attracted a great deal of publicity.
- The results of the survey were widely circulated.
- The vents circulate heat back into the room.
- While Shelley was still at school, he circulated a pamphlet attacking religion.
- A monthly bulletin is prepared and circulated to each section.
- Finally, may I dispel a couple of nonsensical rumours that are currently circulating.
- I have circulated the request to the various Regional Council service departments asking them to respond not later than 18 December 1992.
- One rumour circulating recently was that the vast majority of the 250 job losses would be from Barlaston.
- The air, thus refreshed, rises to the top of the nest and then circulates back down other passageways.
- The real product is the body of ideas that circulate from the vision.
- They circulated to the officials working on post-war plans a paper designed to refute the Section's approach.
Longman Language Activatorto send a letter, message, parcel etc
· Send a cheque for £50 with your order.· How many Christmas cards did you send?send somebody something · Perhaps I should send him a note of apology.· She sent him a furious email.send something to something · He sent a dozen red roses to his girlfriend on her birthday.· MI5 intercepted a message sent from a business firm in Paris to The Hague.
British /mail especially American to send a letter, package etc by putting it in a letter box or taking it to the post office: · I must remember to post Joey's birthday card.· You may choose not to mail the payment until the due date.post/mail something to somebody: · Could you mail those photographs to me?· Tickets will be posted to you unless otherwise requested.post/mail somebody something: · I mailed my dad a postcard from Alaska.
to send someone a copy of a document or message electronically down a telephone line, using a fax machine: · Shall I fax the report or mail it?fax something to somebody: · The order will be faxed directly to the manufacturer.fax somebody something: · They've agreed to fax us their proposals tomorrow.
to send a message directly from one computer to another computer, using the Internet: · You can email Richard in Sydney.email somebody something: · I'll e-mail you his address when I get home.email something to somebody: · She spent the next hour e-mailing her resume to prospective employers.
to send something somewhere so that it can be dealt with: send something off: · I must send this film off to be processed.send off something: · When did you send off your application form?
to send something to an organization by mail, so that it can be dealt with: send something in: · We've sent our passports in to get them renewed.send in something: · The final date for sending in completed application forms is July 3rd.· Almost 1000 questionnaires have already been sent in.
to send something to a lot of people: send out something: · The club sends out a monthly newsletter to all its members.· Officials are sending out information packs to 4000 firms in the area.send something out: · We posted the wedding invitations in batches, rather than sending them all out at the same time.
to send a letter or written message to each person in a group in order to make sure that everyone receives the information you want them to receive: · While Shelley was still at school, he circulated a pamphlet attacking religion.circulate something around/to/through etc: · Sneed had circulated a letter round the department explaining the new pay cuts.· A list of well-known fraudsters was circulated to all local police chiefs.be widely circulated (=circulated to a lot of people): · The results of the survey were widely circulated.
formal to send something to someone, especially something they have ordered or are expecting: · The seller had agreed to dispatch the goods free of charge.dispatch something to something: · The proofs were then despatched to London for printing.
informal to send something by mail, especially when it is urgent: · She managed to get all the letters off before five o'clock.get sth off to: · I'll get this off to you first thing in the morning.
British to put a letter, parcel etc into a post box or take it to a post office to be sent: · I'll put a cheque in the post for you tonight.
information/feelings/ideas/problems etc if information, an idea, or a feeling spreads , or if you spread it, more and more people begin to know about it or be affected by it: · After she died at a San Jose hospital, word spread fast.· News of the disaster was spreading quickly.· Rumors about Amy spread through the school.· The lawsuit charged the magazine with spreading lies about the company and its products.spread to/into/through etc: · Panic spread through downtown Port-au-Prince.
also get round British if news or information gets around or goes around , people tell other people, so that soon a lot of people know about it: · News soon got around that Nick was back in Barnstable.· It's a small place, so news and gossip gets around pretty quickly.· It didn't take long for word to get around that Moore was leaving the company.
if news, information, stories etc circulate , they spread through a large group of people, especially because each person tells it to someone else: · The organization's intranet system allows information to circulate rapidly.· Rumors began circulating that she was seriously ill.circulate among: · The letter was circulated among news organizations nationwide.
formal to spread information, ideas etc as widely as possible, especially in order to influence the way people think or behave: · Racist messages are being widely disseminated via the Internet.· The Health Education Council is the central agency for disseminating information about disease prevention.
if a problem or bad situation spills over , it spreads beyond the place or situation in which it starts, and begins to affect other places, people, or areas of activity: spill over to/into/from etc: · It is easy to allow personal emotions to spill over into your work.· Government chiefs are worried that the refugee problem might spill over from neighboring countries.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Rumours began circulating that the prime minister was seriously ill.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES If your muscles are tense, blood cannot circulate freely.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
Rumours began circulating that the prime minister was seriously ill. If your muscles are tense, blood cannot circulate freely.· These, together with a list of queries and references needed, were circulated around the team for comments and suggestions.· Pictures of the dead men had been circulated around the jury.
· A buffet meal is much easier and more sociable, enabling you to circulate freely.· Place them so that air can freely circulate around the back.· Other cell types - leucocytes and blood platelets - spend much of their time circulating freely and thus showing no adhesive interactions.· Avoid very sweaty armpits because sweat quickly decomposes in areas where air does not circulate freely.· Boards should be positioned in storage so that air can circulate freely around both main faces.· The principle is to support the crop above the ground and to allow the air to circulate freely through it.
· Nevertheless their Bible was widely circulated not only among the middle classes but among the nobility.· The daily broadsheet circulates widely in the Arab world and among Arabs living in the West.· The consultative paper was widely circulated and was received with mixed feelings.· The examination timetable has been widely circulated but if any one wishes a copy please telephone your request to the examinations department.· Both were widely circulated and well received.· By the end of the month it had been codified into a document which was widely circulated for study among work groups.· International speakers regularly contribute and the papers presented are widely circulated.
NOUN· Ventilation: ample room between inner and flysheet for air to circulate, especially when doors at either end are open.· The exit-doors were open to allow the air to circulate.· When heat styling, use a vent brush which allows hot air to circulate through the brush, spreading the heat evenly.· Place them so that air can freely circulate around the back.· Avoid very sweaty armpits because sweat quickly decomposes in areas where air does not circulate freely.· Boards should be positioned in storage so that air can circulate freely around both main faces.· Ventilation: because the fly sits on top of the inner there's little space for air to circulate in this area.· Diogenes backed up his theory of the importance of air circulating through the body with some primitive human anatomy.
· Ventilation: because the fly sits on top of the inner there's little space for air to circulate in this area.
· Just as the blood is circulated through our physical body, so energy flows through and between the subtle bodies.· The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.· After death, a machine called a ventilator keeps the blood circulating until the organs are removed.
· Compressed air oscillates the ventricles, circulating blood around the body.· From these sites the activated lymphocytes circulate through the body.· Because the drugs circulate around your body through your bloodstream, they affect all your cells.· Just as the blood is circulated through our physical body, so energy flows through and between the subtle bodies.· Women usually have a small amount of the male hormone testosterone circulating in their bodies.· Diogenes backed up his theory of the importance of air circulating through the body with some primitive human anatomy.
· The California company has been circulating early development copies since last September and adding features and functions.· Count Tolstoy provided much of the information for the pamphlet at issue, of which Mr Watts circulated 10,000 copies.· Ipswich abolitionists in 1828 circulated bound copies of the Reporter.
· He had circulated a document which professed to trace his descent, through his father, from the Prophet.
· He referred to the new written policy and circulated four letters from parents objecting to the proposed closure.· It is normally circulated under covering letter and will incorporate a confidentiality agreement.· We circulated a letter to various individuals in the field asking if they had any unpublished records we might need.· It tells readers to circulate the letter widely.
· Sometimes the police will circulate a list with details of people who are fraudulently using hotels in the area.· Often they circulate these lists to local conservation and amenity groups, residents' associations and subscribers.· Credit offers are circulated from purchasable mailing lists just like any other commodity.
· The main points for debate could then be circulated to panel members and the course team before the event.· The Bulletin is circulated to four thousand members of the academic, business and government policy communities worldwide.· Council approved a five-year Corporate Plan for the Institute, and this was circulated to members.· A highly-sensitive questionnaire has been circulated to almost all members of the southern defence forces.
· The Home Secretary accordingly circulated a further paper on 28 July.· Members unable to attend are circulated with the research papers on request.· At the end of March, I circulated a paper which enthusiastically backed electrification.· He circulated a paper with background details on the family and a photograph of Densen and Netsai Mafinyani and their two boys.
· Six days to circulate a petition around the scattered islands.· We are now circulating petitions calling for a federal law to ban handguns.· Supporters are circulating a petition to force the committee to report the bill to the floor.· They donned black armbands mourning the cattails and circulated petitions to have the offending drainage pipe removed.· He and buddy Chuck Bauman have been circulating petitions for months asking voters to repeal property taxes.· Reform Party supporters then circulated new petitions and filed them with Taft last month.· Do teachers have the right to circulate controversial petitions on school premises?· The group expects to reach that threshold after circulating petitions at Earth Day events this weekend.
· When reports began circulating that up to 200 miners had been trapped, officials claimed that there were no casualties.· As news about the archdiocesan report began to circulate, the pressure increased on Ray McGovern to abandon his protest.· Documents from the report have begun to circulate on the island.· At issue in the case was an inaccurate Dun & Bradstreet credit report that had been circulated to five subscribers.· Four reports were published, backed up by a series of duplicated reports which were circulated to interested parties.
· Later, hundreds of others would line up behind us. Rumors of all kinds circulated.
· Not long afterwards, ugly rumours began to circulate.· But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law.· Finally, may I dispel a couple of nonsensical rumours that are currently circulating.· This confirmed rumours which had been circulating in previous months.· Then, in the early spring of 1944, strong rumours began to circulate that big changes were coming to Bourn.· Alleged finds, discoveries and rumours have been circulating wildly ... but how much is fact and how much is hearsay?
· It was about now that an ugly story began to circulate, originating with the manor's servants.· In one apocryphal story that circulated on trading floors years ago, Black once tried to execute several trades using his model.· There were also stories circulating that he had been the beneficiary of Marian apparitions.· In fact, I sensed something missing in the stories that circulated.· The chroniclers entered the world of witches and spirits and handed on the sort of stories that circulated.· How the stories circulated on every campus!· Strange stories began to circulate about Morrissey's new residence.· Three stories were quick to circulate, embellished at will with as much creativity as news releases from the Government Information Office.
VERB· The exit-doors were open to allow the air to circulate.· Make sure the pans are in the center of the rack to allow heat to circulate around them.· When heat styling, use a vent brush which allows hot air to circulate through the brush, spreading the heat evenly.· The principle is to support the crop above the ground and to allow the air to circulate freely through it.
· As a consequence, the goldsmiths' receipts began to circulate as generally acceptable means of payment.· As news about the archdiocesan report began to circulate, the pressure increased on Ray McGovern to abandon his protest.· It was about now that an ugly story began to circulate, originating with the manor's servants.· Not long afterwards, ugly rumours began to circulate.· That's the rumour which will begin to circulate: a poisoner as well as a sodomite.· Strange stories began to circulate about Morrissey's new residence.· Rumours began to circulate that Banzai had been conquered.· When reports began circulating that up to 200 miners had been trapped, officials claimed that there were no casualties.
WORD FAMILYnouncirclesemicirclecirculationadjectivecircularsemicircularcirculatoryverbcirclecirculate
1[intransitive, transitive] to move around within a system, or to make something do this: Swimming helps to get the blood circulating through the muscles. Ceiling fans circulated warm air around the room.2[intransitive] if information, facts, ideas etc circulate, they become known by many people: Rumours began circulating that the prime minister was seriously ill.3[transitive] to send goods, information etc to people: The group circulated petitions calling for a federal law to ban handguns.4[intransitive] to talk to a lot of different people in a group, especially at a party