circuit vs track

circuit

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

  • 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 space enclosed within a circle, or within limits. 

  • The basic grouping of local Methodist churches. 

  • A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed. 

  • 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. 

track

noun
  • The racing events of track and field; track and field in general. 

  • A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc. 

  • The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree. 

  • Physical course; way. 

  • The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc. 

  • The pitch. 

  • A road or other similar beaten path. 

  • The direction and progress of someone or something; path. 

  • Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring. 

  • A tract or area, such as of land. 

  • A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence. 

  • The street, as a prostitute's place of work. 

  • A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors. 

  • A themed set of talks within a conference. 

  • A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal. 

  • The way or rails along which a train moves. 

  • Sound stored on a record. 

  • The physical track on a record. 

  • A mark left by something that has passed along. 

verb
  • To create music using tracker software. 

  • To make sense; to be consistent with known information 

  • To monitor the movement of a person or object. 

  • To traverse; to move across. 

  • To create a musical recording (a track). 

  • To exhibit good cognitive function. 

  • To discover the location of a person or object by following traces. 

  • To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks. 

  • To tow. 

  • To match the movement or change of a person or object. 

  • To travel so that a moving object remains in shot. 

  • To follow the tracks of. 

  • To move. 

  • To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time. 

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