different between circuit vs swing

English

Etymology

From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire. As a Chinese administrative division, a calque of Chinese ? (dào) or ? (lù).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?s??.k?t]
• (General American) IPA^(key): [?s?.k?t]
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): [?s??.k??], [?s??.k??]
• Rhymes: -??(r)k?t

Noun

circuit (plural circuits)

1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
   • 1904, Popular Science Monthly Volume 64 page 33

     After 27 days the moon has made one circuit among the stars, moving from west to east. But in those 27 days the sun has likewise moved eastwardly, about 27 degrees. The moon, then, has to make one circuit and a little more in order to be again in the line joining the earth and sun, in order to be again 'new.'

2. The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
4. The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
6. (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
7. A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
   • November 25 2016, Jane Cornwell in The Age, Bill Bailey: bird loving joker at the peak of his career

     Having cut his teeth on London's take-no-prisoners comedy circuit he can handle hecklers too, sometimes with musical accompaniment; recent shows see him armed with a veritable chamber orchestra's worth of instruments, all of which he plays.

8. (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
9. (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
   1. The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
   2. The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
   3. Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
10. (law) Abbreviation of circuit court.
11. (Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
12. By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
13. (motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
    • November 13 2016, Formula 1

      Interlagos is the 24th track Hamilton has won at in F1, which is more than any other driver in history. The only circuit on the current calendar that Hamilton hasn’t won at is Baku, which only joined the schedule this year.

14. (obsolete) circumlocution
    • 1572, Richard Huloet, Huloets Dictionarie

      circuite of words.

15. (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
16. (graph theory) A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
17. A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
    • 1990, Arthur A. Thompson, ?Alonzo J. Strickland, Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases (page 341)

      Mike Patrick commented on a theater chain he was considering buying and converting to 99 ¢ theaters with multiplex screens: I'm looking at a circuit of theaters in a major metropolitan area. Now the owner hasn't told me that it is for sale yet.

    • 2002, Allen Eyles, ?Keith Skone, Cinemas of Hertfordshire (page 61)

      It again featured Edgar Simmons (the architect and chairman), John Ray (the builder), L. E. Agar (managing director) and J. G. Wainwright (head of a separate circuit of cinemas).

Synonyms

• (path or distance around a space): periplus (naval)
• (Imperial Chinese administrative divisions): dao; lu, route (Later Jin to Song); tao (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

circuit (third-person singular simple present circuits, present participle circuiting, simple past and past participle circuited)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To travel around.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /si??kujt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /sir?kujt/

Noun

circuit m (plural circuits)

1. circuit

Further reading

• “circuit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “circuit” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “circuit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “circuit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?r?k?i/
• Hyphenation: cir?cuit
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

circuit n (plural circuits, diminutive circuitje n)

1. (sports) racetrack

   Synonym: racebaan

2. (physics) electric circuit

   Synonym: stroomkring

3. (figuratively) exclusive group of individuals, clique, circle

   Synonyms: kliek, kring

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: sirkuit

French

Etymology

From Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?.k?i/
• Homophone: circuits

Noun

circuit m (plural circuits)

1. circuit
2. tour

Derived terms

• circuit imprimé
• coup de circuit

Further reading

• “circuit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kir.ku.it/, [?k?rku?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??ir.ku.it/, [?t??irkuit?]

Verb

circuit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of circue?

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French circuit and Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??ir.ku?it/

Noun

circuit n (plural circuite)

1. circuit

Declension

Related terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English swingen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swingan? (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

swing (third-person singular simple present swings, present participle swinging, simple past swung or (archaic or dialectal) swang, past participle swung or (archaic) swungen)

1. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

   The plant swung in the breeze.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 12

     With one accord the tribe swung rapidly toward the frightened cries, and there found Terkoz holding an old female by the hair and beating her unmercifully with his great hands.
2. (intransitive) To dance.
3. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.

   The children laughed as they swung.

4. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
5. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows.
6. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
7. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.

   It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.

8. (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.

   He swung his sword as hard as he could.

9. (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
10. (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.

    If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.

11. (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
12. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
13. (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
14. (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.

    "to swing one's partner", or simply "to swing"

15. (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.

    The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.

16. (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
17. (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.

    A ship swings with the tide.

Troponyms

• (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point): pivot, swivel

Derived terms

• come out swinging
• overswing
• swing into action
• swingle

Translations

Noun

swing (countable and uncountable, plural swings)

1. The manner in which something is swung.
2. The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
3. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
5. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
6. A dance style.
7. (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
8. The amount of change towards or away from something.
   • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

     Miss Pole came round with a swing to as vehement a belief in the sorrowful tale as she had been sceptical before […]

   1. (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.

      The polls showed a wide swing to Labour.

9. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
10. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
11. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
12. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
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14. (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.

    • Take thy swing.

    • 1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings

      To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle on the full swing of his genius.

15. Influence or power of anything put in motion.
16. (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.

Quotations

• 1937 June 11, Judy Garland, “All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm”, A day at the races, Sam Wood (director), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  All God’s chillun got rhythm. All God's chillun got swing.

  Maybe haven't got money, maybe haven't got shoes.

  All God’s chillun got rhythm for to push away their blues.

Derived terms

• sex swing
• swing and a miss
• swing of things
• swings and roundabouts
• what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

Translations

Anagrams

• Gwins, wings

Czech

Noun

swing m

1. swing (dance)

Further reading

• swing in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• swing in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swi?/

Noun

swing m (plural swings)

1. swing; several senses

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Noun

swing m (invariable)

1. swing (music and dance style; golf swing)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Noun

swing m (plural swings)

1. swing (a dance and music style)
2. swinging (exchange of partners for sex)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?swin/, [?sw?n]

Noun

swing m (plural swings)

1. swing (dance)