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Circling vs Circulating - What's the difference?

circling | circulating |

As verbs the difference between circling and circulating

is that circling is present participle of lang=en while circulating is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun circling

is a circular motion.

As an adjective circulating is

moving about freely.

circling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A circular motion.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings .

    circulating

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Moving about freely.
    • He glanced at the slowly circulating guests.
  • An institution lending from its collection, especially of books, on condition of membership.
    • A circulating library.

    Verb

    (head)