Difference between Circulate and Circle

What is the difference between Circulate and Circle?

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

Circulate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to move in circles or through a circuit to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit to move from person to person, as at a party to spread or disseminate to become widely known

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: We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

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

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