blindside vs circuit

blindside

noun
  • The space on the side of the pitch with the shorter distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare openside. 

  • The blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number 6. 

  • A person's weak point. 

  • A tram/train driver's field of blindness around a tram (trolley/streetcar) or a train; the side areas behind the tram/train driver. 

  • A driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver. 

verb
  • To attack (a person) on his or her blind side. 

  • To catch off guard; to take by surprise. 

circuit

noun
  • The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits. 

  • The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin. 

  • A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person. 

  • The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution 

  • Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China. 

  • The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not. 

  • The basic grouping of local Methodist churches. 

  • A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed. 

  • A track on which a race in held; a racetrack 

  • By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville. 

  • The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan. 

  • A chain of cinemas/movie theaters. 

  • Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function. 

  • A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job 

  • That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. 

  • The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area. 

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