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circuit

A circuit is a loop that normally starts and finishes in the same place. They ran a circuit around the park. A circuit is a closed route where electricity flows. The electric circuit can hold 20 amperes.

circuit

an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow (= tour) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area they took an extended tour of Europe we took a quick circuit of the park a ten-day coach circuit of the island (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 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 make a circuit They were circuiting about the state (= circumference) the boundary line encompassing an area or object he had walked the full circumference of his land a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe (= racing circuit) a racetrack for automobile races (= lap) movement once around a course he drove an extra lap just for insurance

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Simple sentences

A protection system has been built into this circuit.
The short circuit blew a fuse.
Because of a short circuit, we were suddenly in the dark.
I spilled jam on the electric outlet and there was a short circuit.
The audience believed it to be part of the act, rather than a short circuit.

Movie subtitles

Have you checked the circuit?
He's circuit court judge.
There will be a circuit court here in a day or so.
Try the other circuit.
We're trying the other circuit.
It could break the circuit, cut a line, except at the source.
You only been out a week. and right away those fingers gotta play the subway circuit.
The phone isn't on the same circuit.
We have a short circuit.
I''Ll Tell My Pupils It''S A Circuit Tester.
The alarm system is battery- and circuit-powered.
I got the circuit judge to give me a writ.
We out the ultrasonic wavelength into the circuit and knock them down.
If I were to allow that to continue..he would blow every circuit in his body.
A short-circuit. We've always had electrical problems.
Yep, the Law. He's circuit court judge.
Circuit court be here in a day or so.
I'll drive in the Grand Circuit again.
We'll get our farm back in Connecticut. And we'll drive the Grand Circuit again.
Is it possible to short-circuit the transmitter and the receiver?
Fuses keep blowing on the undercarriage safety circuit.
I'll make an Anderson special, a talent I developed on the ulcer circuit.
If I were to allow that to continue he would blow every circuit in his body.
How to short-circuit the continuum on a five- or six-parsec level.
Will Your Majesty work a circuit?
A short circuit!
There was a short circuit.
A short-circuit.
There will be a circuit court here in a day or so. If you got any complaints to make, that's the place to make them.
Sure you wouldn't like another circuit with me?
Clear to join circuit and land.
I suppose I couldn't take her on a quick circuit, could I?
And I can name a pawnshop in every town on the circuit.
The Keith circuit.
Crash circuit.
The well known neuropsychiatrist was accidentally electrocuted in his own laboratory by a defective circuit.
Susie can stand just so much input, then her feedback circuit overloads and jams and she goes into a regular tizzy.
Playing the fashionable winter hotel circuit?

News and current affairs

Incredibly, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York decided that this meant that if Argentina paid in full what it owed those who had accepted debt restructuring, it had to pay in full what it owed to the vultures.
It cannot have escaped their notice that to uphold indefinite detention of foreign nationals without judicial process would have made them virtual pariahs on the conference circuit.
Circuit-breakers are in place nowadays to prevent a 1929-style slide into disaster.
It makes a circuit board look straightforward.
Indeed, not only are new institutional circuit breakers, such as the European Financial Stability Facility, in place; existing bodies have also been made more flexible and thus more effective.
There is a case, too, for looking again at the operation of circuit-breakers (which helped the Chicago markets in the crash), and for increasing the obligations on market makers.
But banks want to short-circuit these procedural safeguards.
Was it his bad luck, I wondered, to be born too early to take part in today's lucrative professional surfing circuit?
Doubtless, we will learn more about Blair's justifications for what he did, and further articulations of his interventionist creed, when he goes on the lecture circuit and, in due course, publishes his memoirs.
Since early 2009, the Fund has had significantly greater resources to lend to countries in trouble, to cushion the blow of crisis, and to offer a form of international circuit-breaker when it looks like the lights might otherwise go out.
We need a game changer, like the integrated circuit, radio, or electricity.
It is much harder to find circuit breakers for this dynamic than for, say, that caused by balance-sheet distress in the financial sector.
As a result, the world's international economic institutions will need to be strengthened in terms of governance and resources so that they can act as circuit-breakers in the event of future financial and economic turbulence.
The heavy artillery of monetary and fiscal stimulus is being wasted on attempts to short-circuit balance-sheet repair.
The subsequent introduction of circuit-breakers tacitly acknowledged that derivatives can cause disruptions, but the proper conclusions were not drawn.
If a bubble develops, and if the bubble does not deflate but collapses, threatening to cause a depression, the Fed would have the policy tools to short-circuit that chain.
The system needs circuit-breakers in the form of loans and capital flows that dampen the volatility and maintain access to financing across the system.
The US reaction is key: Rather than punishing the PA, and maybe the UN as well, it should use the resolution to propose the kind of diplomatic circuit-breaker for which the world has long been hoping.
It turned out that semiconductors were being fitted onto circuit boards in a mindless, primitive fashion, whereas potato chips were being produced through a highly automated process (which is how Pringles chips rest on each other perfectly).

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