circulate
verb /ˈsɜːkjəleɪt/
/ˈsɜːrkjəleɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they circulate | /ˈsɜːkjəleɪt/ /ˈsɜːrkjəleɪt/ |
| he / she / it circulates | /ˈsɜːkjəleɪts/ /ˈsɜːrkjəleɪts/ |
| past simple circulated | /ˈsɜːkjəleɪtɪd/ /ˈsɜːrkjəleɪtɪd/ |
| past participle circulated | /ˈsɜːkjəleɪtɪd/ /ˈsɜːrkjəleɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form circulating | /ˈsɜːkjəleɪtɪŋ/ /ˈsɜːrkjəleɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] when a liquid, gas or air circulates or is circulated, it moves continuously around a place or system
- The condition prevents the blood from circulating freely.
- circulate something Cooled air is circulated throughout the building.
Extra Examples- Blood circulates through the arteries and veins.
- The heart circulates blood around the body.
- sugar circulating in the bloodstream
- The condition prevents blood from circulating freely.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- freely
- around
- round
- in
- …
- [intransitive, transitive] if a story, an idea, information, etc. circulates or if you circulate it, it spreads or it is passed from one person to another
- Rumours began to circulate about his financial problems.
- circulate around something There's a story circulating around the office that you are about to leave the company.
- circulate among somebody newspapers circulating among minority communities
- circulate something Who has been circulating these rumours?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- widely
- freely
- among
- around
- round
- …
- [transitive] to send goods or information to all the people in a group
- circulate something They circulated a petition for his release.
- The book was circulated widely in Russia.
- circulate something to somebody The document will be circulated to all members.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- widely
- freely
- among
- around
- round
- …
- [intransitive] to move around a group, especially at a party, talking to different people
Word Originlate 15th cent. (as an alchemical term meaning ‘distil something in a closed container, allowing condensed vapour to return to the original liquid’): from Latin circulat- ‘moved in a circular path’, from the verb circulare, from circulus ‘small ring’, diminutive of circus ‘ring’.Sense (1) dates from the mid 17th cent.