Coterie vs Circuit - What's the difference?
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A circle of people who associate with one another.
An exclusive group of people, who associate closely for a common purpose; a clique.
A communal burrow of prairie dogs.
* 2000 , Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis , page 473:
* 2001 , Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Emperor's Embrace: The Evolution of Fatherhood :
* 2009 , Miriam Aronin, The Prairie Dog's Town: A Perfect Hideaway , page 22:
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.
As nouns the difference between coterie and circuit
is that coterie is a circle of people who associate with one another 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 a verb circuit is
to move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.coterie
English
Noun
(en noun)- The new junior employee joined our merry after-hours coterie .
- A tightly-knit coterie of executive powerbrokers made all the real decisions in the company.
- The coterie was located in the middle of our wheat field.
- The population of each coterie' constantly changes over a period of a few months or years, by death, birth, and emigration. But the ' coterie boundary remains about the same, being learned by each prairie dog born into it.
- The odd part of prairie dog life is that this friendly state exists only among the members of each coterie', and does not extend between ' coteries .
- The Town Grows Young prairie dogs in a coterie are brothers and sisters. They have the same father and sometimes the same mother. To find a mate from a different family, young prairie dogs must travel to a new area.
circuit
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thou hast used no circuit of words.
Verb
(en verb)- Having circuited the air.
