What does circulation mean?
Word: Circulation
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Circulation means the movement of blood round the body, or of air or water through a space. It also means the number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold or passed around.
Synonyms: flow, movement
How do you spell circulation?
Syllables: cir - cu - la - tion
Tricky part: The two c's at the start sound different: the first is soft before i, the second hard before u. Students also drop the u and write circlation, or start with s.
Watch out for: circlation, circulasion, sirculation
Memory tip: Blood goes round in a circle, and circulation starts with the same four letters as circle.
Circulation in a sentence
Example 1: Rubbing your cold hands together helps the circulation.
Example 2: The ceiling fan keeps the air in circulation on humid evenings.
Example 3: That Hindi daily has the largest circulation in our state.
Fun Fact
In 1628 the English doctor William Harvey published his account of the circulation of the blood, showing that the heart pumps it round the body in a loop.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Fill in the missing letters to complete the word:
circul_t_on
a) a, e
b) a, i
c) o, i
d) e, i
Show answer
b) a, i. The noun is built on circulate, so an a follows the l, and the shun ending is spelt -tion.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word circulation as used in the sentence:
The new science magazine has a circulation of nearly fifty thousand copies a month.
a) revenue
b) distribution
c) production
d) editing
Show answer
b) distribution. Circulation here means how widely the copies are spread among readers.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the meaning of the only correctly spelt word:
1. circulation 2. artary 3. capilary 4. resperation
a) the process of breathing in and out
b) a tube that carries blood away from the heart
c) blood flowing round the body in a loop
d) one of the tiny tubes that link the larger blood vessels
Show answer
c) blood flowing round the body in a loop. Resperation and artary each have one wrong vowel and capilary is a letter short; circulation is written correctly.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
Yoga and long walks can improve blood incoiutcarl in older people.
a) circulation
b) articulation
c) circulating
d) calculation
Show answer
a) circulation. Calculation has no r, articulation needs two a's and two t's, and circulating has a g, so circulation is the match.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these helps the circulation of air in a classroom?
a) opening the windows
b) closing the curtains
c) locking the door
d) switching off the lights
Show answer
a) opening the windows
2. A rumour that is in circulation is ____.
a) printed in a history book
b) proved to be completely true
c) spreading from one person to the next
d) kept as a closely guarded secret
Show answer
c) spreading from one person to the next
