Disperse vs Circulate - What's the difference?

Disperse is a related term of circulate.

is that disperse is while circulate is to move in circles or through a circuit.

(intransitive) To scatter in different directions

The Jews are dispersed among all nations.

* Bible, Proverbs xv. 7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.

* Cowper

Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .

(intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate

(intransitive) To disseminate

(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract

(intransitive) To distribute throughout

* Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite similarity.

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(circulat)

to move in circles or through a circuit

to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit

to move from person to person, as at a party

to spread or disseminate

to circulate money or gossip

to become widely known

* put about * spread * disseminate

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