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Cabal vs Circuit - What's the difference?

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Cabal is a related term of circuit.


As nouns the difference between cabal and circuit

is that cabal is a usually secret exclusive organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose while circuit is 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.

As verbs the difference between cabal and circuit

is that cabal is to engage in the activities of a while circuit is (obsolete) to move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

cabal

English

(wikipedia cabal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A usually secret exclusive organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
    • The cabal is plotting to take over the world.
  • A secret plot.
    • The cabal to destroy the building was foiled by federal agents.
  • An identifiable group within the tradition of .
  • * 1965
    • Some episkoposes have a one-man cabal . Some work together. Some never do explain.

    Synonyms

    * camarilla * conspiracy

    Derived terms

    * cabalistic * cabbalistic * TINC (there is no cabal)

    Verb

  • To engage in the activities of a
  • * I believed her to have been carried off by some persons belonging to a party of Jacobites who were known to be caballing against the government, though to what extent was not then ascertained.
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    • See also

    * cabal glass ----

    circuit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • *
  • That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
  • *
  • The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
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  • (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
  • A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
  • (legal) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
  • (legal)
  • (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
  • By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
  • (obsolete) circumlocution
  • * Huloet
    • Thou hast used no circuit of words.

    Related terms

    * circuit board * circuit breaker * circuit court * circuitous * circuitry * Galvanic circuit * integrated circuit * printed circuit * short circuit * Voltaic circuit

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
  • (obsolete) To travel around.
    • Having circuited the air.
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