Break-circuit
(n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. |
Circuit
(n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit |
Circuit
(n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space |
Circuit
(n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. |
Circuit
(n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. |
Circuit
(n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher. |
Circuit
(n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice. |
Circuit
(n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors. |
Circuit
(n.) Circumlocution. |
Circuit
(v. i.) To move in a circle |
Circuit
(v. t.) To travel around. |
Current
(a.) Running or moving rapidly. |
Current
(a.) Now passing, as time |
Current
(a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand |
Current
(a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged. |
Current
(a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation |
Current
(a.) A flowing or passing |
Current
(a.) General course |
Drain
(v. t.) To draw off by degrees |
Drain
(v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off |
Drain
(v. t.) To filter. |
Drain
(v. i.) To flow gradually |
Drain
(v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping |
Drain
(n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off |
Drain
(n.) That means of which anything is drained |
Drain
(n.) The grain from the mashing tub |
Rossel current
() A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea. |
Short circuit
() A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. |
Short-circuit
(v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance. |
Sink
(v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity |
Sink
(v. i.) To enter deeply |
Sink
(v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression |
Sink
(v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed |
Sink
(v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river |
Sink
(v. t.) To cause to sink |
Sink
(v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline |
Sink
(v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc. |
Sink
(v. t.) To bring low |
Sink
(v. t.) To conseal and appropriate. |
Sink
(v. t.) To keep out of sight |
Sink
(v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment |
Sink
(n.) A drain to carry off filthy water |
Sink
(n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen. |
Sink
(n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost |
Tile-drain
(v. t.) To drain by means of tiles |
Top-drain
(v. t.) To drain the surface of, as land |
Water drain
() A drain or channel for draining off water. |
lap circle
circuit | movement once around a course, he drove an extra lap just for insurance |
tour
circuit | 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 |
drain
drainage | emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it |
| current intelligence | intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest, usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation |
| drain | a gradual depletion of energy or resources, a drain on resources, a drain of young talent by emigration |
| brain drain | depletion or loss of intellectual and technical personnel |
AND circuit
AND gate | a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire |
| bridge bridge circuit | a circuit consisting of two branches ( arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected |
cesspool
cesspit
sink sump | a covered cistern, waste water and sewage flow into it |
circuit
electrical circuit
electric circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow |
circuit board
circuit card
board card plug-in
add-in | a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities |
circuit breaker
breaker | a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded |
closed circuit
loop | a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates |
| computer circuit | a circuit that is part of a computer |
control circuit
negative feedback circuit | a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input |
drain
drainpipe
waste pipe | a pipe through which liquid is carried away |
| drain | tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material |
| drain basket | a filter in a sink drain, traps debris but passes water |
feedback circuit
feedback loop | a circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a system |
| heat sink | a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat |
integrated circuit
microcircuit | a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor, a whole system rather than a single component |
| kitchen sink | a sink in a kitchen |
light circuit
lighting circuit | wiring that provides power to electric lights |
NAND circuit
NAND gate | a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate |
| open circuit | an incomplete electrical circuit in which no current flows |
OR circuit
OR gate | a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire |
parallel circuit
shunt circuit | a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit |
| printed circuit | computer circuit consisting of an electronic sub-assembly, copper conductors are laminated on an insulating board or card and circuit components are inserted into holes and dip soldered |
| pulse timing circuit | a circuit that times pulses |
racing circuit
circuit | a racetrack for automobile races |
| resonator resonant circuit | an electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude |
| series circuit | a circuit having its parts connected serially |
short circuit
short | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |
| sink | plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe |
squelch circuit
squelch
squelcher | an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise |
| tank circuit | an oscillatory circuit |
telephone line
phone line
telephone circuit
subscriber line
line | a telephone connection |
| trap-and-drain auger | a plumber's snake for clearing a trap and drain |
X-OR circuit
XOR circuit
XOR gate | gate for exclusive OR, a circuit in a computer that fires only if only one of its inputs fire |
tidal flow
tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
riptide
rip current | a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore |
current
stream | a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes), the raft floated downstream on the current, he felt a stream of air, the hose ejected a stream of water |
| circuit court of appeals | one of the twelve federal United States courts of appeals that cover a group of states known as a `circuit' |
| circuit | (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (soalled 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 |
stream
flow
current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
circumference
circuit | 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 |
| circuit | 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 |
borscht circuit
borsht circuit
borscht belt
borsht belt | (informal) a resort area in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was patronized primarily by Jewish guests, many comedians learned their trade playing the borscht circuit |
sinkhole
sink
swallow hole | a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof |
alternating current
AC
alternating electric current | an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally, In the US most household current is AC atcycles per second |