crowd, Inf. gang; clique, cabal, camarilla, faction; club, society, association, fraternity, school.
4. series, set, cycle; circuit, tour, lap, turn, sweep, swing.
5. revolution, full turn, twirl, gyration; spiral, rondure, coil, whorl, vortex.
-v. 6. surround, encircle, ring; belt, girdle, gird, enclose, hedge in, hem in; ring round; circumnavigate, circumambulate, ensphere; encompass, compass, envelop, embrace.
7. rotate, revolve, whirl, twirl, reel; turn, wheel, spin, gyrate, pirouette, pivot, swivel; loop, coil, curl, eddy, gurge; circumrotate, circumvolve; move around, circulate.
circuit, n. 1. round, lap, beat, ambit, cycle, compass; orbit, trajectory, revolution, turn, loop; circle, sphere, orb, globe; route, path, course, itinerary, run, track.
2. tour, voyage, journey, pilgrimage, trip, travels, wanderings; outing, excursion, expedition, peregrination, trek, hike, walk, stroll, perambulation.
3. frontier, frontier line, boundary, boundary line, bounding line, border line, partition line, line of demarcation, line.
4. border, perimeter, periphery, edge, rim, fringe, verge, skirt; circumference, compass, ambit, margin, frame, outline, confine, confines; brink, brow, brim, hem; bound, limit, bourn, pale, extremity, termination; limits, city limits, outer limits.
5. borderland, borderground, borders, bounds, march, marches, marchland; outpost; outskirts, purlieu, suburbs, suburbia, Fr. banlieue.
circuitous, adj. roundabout, circular, ambagious, meandering, tortuous, sinuous, serpentine, anfractuous, flexuous; turning, twisting, crooked, zigzag, helical, labyrinthine, mazelike; rambling, indirect, devious.
circular, adj. 1. round, disklike, discoid, annular, ring-shaped, hooped; spherical, spheroidal, globular, globate, rotund, bulbous; cycloid, rotiform, orbicular, orbiculate, perimetric.
2. rounded, curved, curvilinear; arched, bowed, bent.
3. circuitous, roundabout, indirect. See - circuitous.
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4. advertisement, handbill, U.S. flyer, broadside, broadsheet, handout, throwaway, advert; brochure, pamphlet, booklet, leaflet, folder; letter, bulletin, notice, announcement, release, press release, statement; placard, poster, bill,
circulate, v. 1. spread, spread abroad, scatter, bestrew, strew, send out, disseminate, propagate, diffuse, disperse, intersperse, distribute; emit, give out, put forth, put forward; advertise, placard, publicize, make known, make public, publish, promulgate, run, Archaic, divulgate; proclaim, announce, declare, tell, utter, enunciate, give currency to; report, bring into the open, divulge, lay before the public, give to the world; blazon, blaze abroad, trumpet, broadcast, proclaim from the rooftops, proclaim at the crossroads, herald, noise abroad, hawk about; rumor, rumor about, bruit, whisper about, repeat, bandy about; air, ventilate, vent.
2. spread like wildfire, go the length and breadth of the land, course; get abroad, get out, come out, be published, become public, acquire currency; be diffused, permeate; drift, flit, blow about, scatter, disperse; emanate, flow, issue, go forth; meander, wander, pass around, travel; pass from mouth to mouth, change hands; go the rounds, circuit, shift about.
3. rotate, turn, circumrotate, revolve, circumvolve; move in a circle, circle, go around, compass; pirouette, gyrate, spiral, spin, pivot, swivel; whirl, swirl, gurge;