Search Details
Word: circuit
(lookup usage)
(lookup stats)
Meaning:
Noun:
- A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
- By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
- electricity Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
- legal A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
- (''Methodist Church'') A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
- obsolete Circumlocution.
- That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
- The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth around the sun.
- The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
- The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »
Verb:
- obsolete To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
- obsolete To travel around.
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »