Definitions for circulates

circulates cir·cu·late

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

Circulates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1020 anagrams from letters in circulates (acceilrstu).

Definitions for circulates

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 circulates

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 circulates

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for circulates
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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