Dictionary entry details
• CIRCULATE (verb)
Meaning:
Become widely known and passed on
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
circulate; go around; spread
Context examples:
the rumor spread / the story went around in the office
Hypernyms (to "circulate" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Cause to become widely known
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
disseminate; circulate; pass around; circularise; diffuse; broadcast; circularize; spread; disperse; distribute; propagate
Context examples:
spread information / circulate a rumor / broadcast the news
Hypernyms (to "circulate" is one way to...):
air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)
Cause:
circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "circulate"):
sough; sow (introduce into an environment)
generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)
carry; run (include as the content; broadcast or publicize)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Cause to be distributed
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
pass around; circulate; distribute; pass on
Context example:
This letter is circulating among the faculty
Hypernyms (to "circulate" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "circulate"):
scatter; spread; spread out (strew or distribute over an area)
utter (put into circulation)
send around (forward to others)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Meaning:
Move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context examples:
Blood circulates in my veins / The air here does not circulate
Hypernyms (to "circulate" is one way to...):
course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "circulate"):
ventilate (circulate through and freshen)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Move in circles
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
circle; circulate
Hypernyms (to "circulate" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "circulate"):
orb; orbit; revolve (move in an orbit)
troll (circulate, move around)
loop (fly loops, perform a loop)
loop (move in loops)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Cause to move in a circuit or system
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
The fan circulates the air in the room
Hypernyms (to "circulate" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Cause:
circulate (move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "circulate"):
convect (circulate hot air by convection)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Move around freely
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
She circulates among royalty
Hypernyms (to "circulate" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "circulate"):
drift (move in an unhurried fashion)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Cause to move around
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
mobilise; mobilize; circulate
Context example:
circulate a rumor
Hypernyms (to "circulate" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Cause:
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
