Difference between Circle and Circulate

What is the difference between Circle and Circulate?

Circle as a verb is to travel around along a curved path. while Circulate as a verb is to move in circles or through a circuit

Circle

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To travel around along a curved path. To surround. To place or mark a circle around. To travel in circles.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from another point. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance from another point. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle. Orbit. A specific group of persons. A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.

Example sentence: I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

Circulate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to move in circles or through a circuitto cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuitto move from person to person, as at a partyto spread or disseminateto become widely known

We hope you now know whether to use Circle or Circulate in your sentence.

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