| 单词 | circulate |
| 释义 | circulate (once / 244 pages) 1v 2v To circulate is to move continuously in a specific circuit, often in a circle. A ceiling fan circulates cool air around the room on a warm day. Blood circulates through your body, pumped from your heart through veins and arteries — your circulatory system — and delivering oxygen to your tissues. This system is closed, meaning the blood stays in your body, bringing oxygenated blood back to your heart. People circulate when they move around a room at a party, chatting with different people, and rumors circulate when they're passed in a circle, from person to person. Circulate comes from the Latin circulare, "to form a circle." WORD FAMILYcirculate: circulated, circulates, circulating, circulation, circulative, circulatory+/circle: circled, circles, circlet, circling, circular, encircle, semicircle/circlet: circlets/circular: circularise, circularity, circularize, circularly, circulars, circulate/circularise: circularisation, circularised, circularises, circularising/circularity: circularities/circularize: circularization, circularized, circularizing/circulation: circulations, recirculation/encircle: encircled, encirclement, encircles, encircling/encirclement: encirclements/encircling: encirclingly/semicircle: semicircles, semicircular/semicircular: semicircularly USAGE EXAMPLESPolice are interviewing witnesses and ask people to help circulate their call for tips and help in finding the shooter. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) During the 19 months he spent there, a rumor circulated among the guards that he would be released as part of a prisoner exchange. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) As a result, prominent patrons circulated a petition imploring Beethoven to keep the premiere in Vienna. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point Blood circulates in my veins The air here does not circulate Hypo|Hyper ventilate circulate through and freshen course, feed, flow, run move along, of liquids 2v move in circles Syn|Hypo|Hyper circle orb, orbit, revolve move in an orbit trollcirculate, move around loopfly loops, perform a loop loopmove in loops retrogrademove backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 3v move around freely She circulates among royalty Hypo|Hyper drift move in an unhurried fashion go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 4v cause to move in a circuit or system The fan circulates the air in the room Hypo|Hyper convect circulate hot air by convection displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 5v cause to move around circulate a rumor Syn|Hyper mobilise, mobilize displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 6v cause be distributed 2This letter is being circulated among the faculty Syn|Hypo|Hyper distribute, pass around, pass on send around forward to others utterput into circulation scatter, spread, spread outstrew or distribute over an area circularise, circularizedistribute circulars to manure, muckspread manure, as for fertilization birdlime, limespread birdlime on branches to catch birds circumfusespread something around something distributespread throughout a given area displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 1v become widely known and passed on Syn|Hyper go around, spread broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread cause to become widely known go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 2v cause to become widely known circulate a rumor Syn|Hypo|Hyper broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread go around, spread become widely known and passed on podcast distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer sowintroduce into an environment generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarizecater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use carry, runinclude as the content; broadcast or publicize air, bare, publicise, publicize make public |
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