verb (used without object),cir·cu·lat·ed,cir·cu·lat·ing.
to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
to pass from place to place, from person to person, etc.: She circulated among her guests.
to be distributed or sold, especially over a wide area.
Library Science. (of books and other materials) to be available for borrowing by patrons of a library for a specified period of time.
verb (used with object),cir·cu·lat·ed,cir·cu·lat·ing.
to cause to pass from place to place, person to person, etc.; disseminate; distribute: to circulate a rumor.
Library Science. to lend (books and other materials) to patrons of a library for a specified period of time.
Origin of circulate
1425–75 for earlier senses; 1665–75 for current senses; late Middle English <Latin circulātus (past participle of circulārī to gather round one, Medieval Latin circulāre to encircle), equivalent to circul(us) circle + -ātus-ate1
It takes a few weeks for immunity to build, so by the time the virus really starts circulating you’re already protected.
The COVID-19 pandemic is about to collide with flu season. Here’s what to expect.|Sara Chodosh|August 26, 2020|Popular Science
Twitter users recently circulated a photo of what was believed to be the same boat, taken at a recent campaign event for the President.
5 crazy details from the case against Steve Bannon—including ‘a boat named Warfighter’|Jeff|August 20, 2020|Fortune
In late October 2019, social-media users once again expressed anger after photos began circulating of a school’s students wearing brainwave-monitoring headbands, supposedly to improve their focus and learning.
Inside China’s unexpected quest to protect data privacy|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Create value-added and engaging content to make sure your website actively circulates SERPs.
What Google says about nofollow, sponsored, and UGC links in 2020: Does it affect your SEO rankings?|Joseph Dyson|July 24, 2020|Search Engine Watch
By 2016, it was the dominant form of influenza virus circulating in tested pigs.
4 reasons not to worry about that ‘new’ swine flu in the news|Erin Garcia de Jesus|July 2, 2020|Science News
In medicine, Lazarus is the patient who, believed dead, spontaneously starts to circulate blood.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead|Sandeep Jauhar|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And when a fraudulent work hits the marketplace, it tends to circulate.
Why eBay Is an Art Forger’s Paradise|Lizzie Crocker|August 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The exhibit began traveling across the country in December and will circulate through nine cities until 2014.
New Project Features Guantánamo’s Long Past|Miranda Green|May 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Choit documents the fading, cyan-heavy images that circulate in shop windows all over modern cities.
CPR For Dying Photos|Blake Gopnik|November 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
More than 250,000 copies of Israel Hayom circulate daily, making it the most widely read paper in Israel.
Wither The Israeli Press?|Noam Sheizaf|October 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
O ye men and women of the world, take this book and warn all sinners, or copy it out and circulate it for general information!
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio vol. II (of 2)|Songling Pu
Capital reappeared, and money began to circulate freely again.
The Secret of the League|Ernest Bramah
The next step was to introduce conical tubes by which the water could circulate through the main fire flue (Galloway boiler).
Farm Engines and How to Run Them|James H. Stephenson
No two persons have the same resisting power toward poisons that circulate in the blood.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:|Louis Marshall Warfield
About midnight his limbs became stiff, the blood soon ceased to circulate, and he was found in the morning, a stiff corpse.
The Indian in his Wigwam|Henry R. Schoolcraft
British Dictionary definitions for circulate
circulate
/ (ˈsɜːkjʊˌleɪt) /
verb
to send, go, or pass from place to place or person to persondon't circulate the news
to distribute or be distributed over a wide area
to move or cause to move through a circuit, system, etc, returning to the starting pointblood circulates through the body
to move in a circlethe earth circulates around the sun