Circuit vs Girdle - What's the difference?
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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.
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That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
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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.
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(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
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(obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
(obsolete) To travel around.
That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
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A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
* Bible, Revelations xv. 6
The zodiac; also, the equator.
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The line of greatest circumference of a diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
(mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
The clitellum of an earthworm.
(Scottish, Northern English)
To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
Circuit is a related term of girdle.
As nouns the difference between circuit and girdle
is that 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 while girdle is that which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.As verbs the difference between circuit and girdle
is that circuit is (obsolete) to move in a circle; to go round; to circulate while girdle is to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.circuit
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Noun
(en noun)- Thou hast used no circuit of words.
Verb
(en verb)- Having circuited the air.
girdle
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Noun
(en noun)- within the girdle of these walls
- their breasts girded with golden girdles
- that gems the starry girdle of the year
- from the world's girdle to the frozen pole
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