Definitions for circulate

circulate cir·cu·late

Spelling: [sur-kyuh-leyt]
IPA: /ˈsɜr kyəˌleɪt/

Circulate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 462 anagrams from letters in circulate (acceilrtu).

Definitions for circulate

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause to pass from place to place, person to person, etc.; disseminate; distribute:
  2. Library Science. to lend (books and other materials) to patrons of a library for a specified period of time.

verb (used without object)

  1. to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point:
  2. to pass from place to place, from person to person, etc.:
  3. to be distributed or sold, especially over a wide area.
  4. Library Science. (of books and other materials) to be available for borrowing by 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), equivale

Examples for circulate

Choit documents the fading, cyan-heavy images that circulate in shop windows all over modern cities.

And when a fraudulent work hits the marketplace, it tends to circulate.

It was, indeed, a realm where this coinage did not circulate.

The exhibit began traveling across the country in December and will circulate through nine cities until 2014.

The animal is a sort of 'world' to the particles of the blood which circulate in it.

That was how the phrase began to circulate, and what it meant; nothing more.'

In medicine, Lazarus is the patient who, believed dead, spontaneously starts to circulate blood.

More than 250,000 copies of Israel Hayom circulate daily, making it the most widely read paper in Israel.

On the very next morning vague rumours began to circulate in the markets.

After this piece of nautical gallantry, the glass began to circulate.

Word Value for circulate
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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