Circuit

['sɜːkɪt] or ['sɝkɪt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow.

(noun.) (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals.

(noun.) an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to; 'she's a familiar name on the club circuit'; 'on the lecture circuit'; 'the judge makes a circuit of the courts in his district'; 'the international tennis circuit'.

(verb.) make a circuit; 'They were circuiting about the state'.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

(n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.

(n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

(n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.

(n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

(n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.

(n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

(n.) Circumlocution.

(v. i.) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

(v. t.) To travel around.

編輯:莉齐

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Revolution, circular course.[2]. Space, region, tract, district.[3]. Boundary, compass, boundary line, distance round.[4]. Course, tour, round, perambulation, journey.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Tour, circumference

ANT:Line, straightness, directness

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解釋/意思:

n. the act of moving round: area extent: a round made in the exercise of a calling esp. the round made by the judges for holding the courts of law: the judges making the round: (Shak.) diadem.—v.t. to go round.—n. Circuiteer′ a judge: one who goes on a circuit.—adj. Circū′itous round about.—adv. Circū′itously.—n. Circū′ity motion in a circle: an indirect course.—Make a circuit to go round.

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