Circuit vs Web - 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.
The silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
* Hawthorne
* Washington Irving
Specifically , the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).
(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
A latticed or woven structure.
* George Bancroft
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
(rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
(manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
(dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
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# The blade of a sword.
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# The blade of a saw.
# The thin, sharp part of a colter.
# The bit of a key.
: the World Wide Web.
to construct or form a web
to cover with a web or network
to ensnare or entangle
to provide with a web
As a noun 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 (obsolete) to move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.As a proper noun web is
(possibly|informal|outside|attributive use) the world wide web.circuit
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Noun
(en noun)- Thou hast used no circuit of words.
Verb
(en verb)- Having circuited the air.
web
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(wikipedia web)Noun
(en noun)- The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web .
- the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-colour or gold
- Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.
- Let me search the web for that.
- He caught the ball in the web .
- The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
- The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.
- And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
- The sword, whereof the web was steel, / Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
Derived terms
* cobweb * spiderweb * webbed * webbingProper noun
- I found it on the web .