HOW TO PRONOUNCE
circulate
/ˈsɝ.kjʊˌleɪt/
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What does circulate mean?
verb
- To move in circles or through a circuit.
- To cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit.
- To move from person to person, as at a party.
More meanings (3)
verb
- To spread or disseminate.
- To become widely known.
- Of decimals: to repeat.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɝ.kjʊˌleɪt/
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Nevertheless, all commodities and ideas circulate throughout the Union as freely as in a country inhabited by one people.
“I should like to rap with a good stick on the empty pates of the dolts who circulate such nonsense!”
More book examples (3)
Ail the walls were double and were made of windproof material, with about an inch between for the air to circulate.
Though it goes backwards and forwards between the ground and the granary, it never changes masters, and therefore does not properly circulate.
Nevertheless, after the affray which I have just related, such reports began to circulate that I felt it necessary to be on my guard.