Circuit vs Tract - 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
* Huloet
(obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
(obsolete) To travel around.
An area or expanse.
* Milton
* Addison
A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract .
A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
* Jonathan Swift
A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
* Milton
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Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
(obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
(obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
(obsolete) Track; trace.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
(obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
(obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
Circuit is a related term of tract.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between circuit and tract
is that circuit is (obsolete) to travel around while tract is (obsolete) to draw out; to protract.As nouns the difference between circuit and tract
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 tract is an area or expanse.As verbs the difference between circuit and tract
is that circuit is (obsolete) to move in a circle; to go round; to circulate while tract is (obsolete) to pursue, follow; to track.circuit
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thou hast used no circuit of words.
Verb
(en verb)- Having circuited the air.
tract
English
Etymology 1
From tractus, the perfect passive participle of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- an unexplored tract of sea
- the deep tract of hell
- a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth
- The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
- improved by tract of time
- Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in , involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time
- the tract of speech
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- The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
- (Dryden)
- Efface all tract of its traduction.
- But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.
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Etymology 2
From tractus , the participle stem of (etyl) trahere.Verb
(en verb)- Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract ?
- (Ben Jonson)
