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Circulate

verb

(past & past part. circulated; pres. part. circulating)

Become widely known and passed on. Synonyms: go around, spread. "The story went around in the office"

Cause to become widely known. Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread. "Circulate a rumor" , "Broadcast the news"

Cause be distributed. Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on.

Move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point. "The air here does not circulate"

Move in circles. Synonym: circle.

Cause to move in a circuit or system.

Move around freely.

Cause to move around. Synonyms: mobilise, mobilize.

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"Circulate" Quotes from Famous Books

... had been striving to deliver himself for some time. "Mr Inglethwaite," he said excitedly, "they must be told at once! We can get more good out of your little girl's illness than fifty meetings would do us. You know what the British public are! I'll circulate the real reason of your departure from the meeting first thing to-morrow morning, and half the wobblers in the place will vote for you out of sheer kind-heartedness. ...

— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay

... president of the Chamber of deputies a simple request for permission to proceed. Probably the permission will not be granted, and the affair will have to stop at that stage; but the matter being once made known will circulate through the Chambers, the newspapers will get hold of it and make a stir, and the ministry, sub rosa, can envenom the ...

— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac

... has even a collection of photographs of beautiful pictures can easily make them a real blessing to many who have no other avenue open to art. And so with books. One owns a copy of Plato, another of Dante, another of Goethe, and these books circulate freely among all who care to read them. They are better than a public library where the books must be hurried back at a given date. They are sometimes even better than large private libraries where the number of books ...

— Girls and Women • Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}

... complaints voiced in regard to the complete disorganization of the public services. M. Hennion, chief of police, has devised an excellent means of clearing the streets of dangerous individuals. He has arranged for half a dozen auto-busses containing a dozen policemen to circulate in the different quarters at night. The auto-busses stop now and then, and the police make a silent search for marauders. Any one found with a revolver or a knife is arrested, put in handcuffs, and placed in the auto-bus and carried to the ...

— Paris War Days - Diary of an American • Charles Inman Barnard

... any trace of habitation, we resolved to avail ourselves of the good taste of the founder; and spreading out the contents of our hampers, proceeded to discuss a most excellent cold dinner. When the good things had disappeared, and the wine began to circulate, one of the party observed that we should not think of enjoying ourselves before we had filled a bumper to the brim, to the health of our good king, whose birth-day it chanced to be. Our homeward thoughts and loyalty uniting, we filled our glasses, ...

— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

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