Circuit vs. Theater — What's the Difference?

A closed, usually circular line that goes around an object or area.

A building, room, or outdoor structure for the presentation of plays, films, or other dramatic performances.

The region enclosed by such a line.

A room with tiers of seats used for lectures or demonstrations

A path or route the complete traversal of which without local change of direction requires returning to the starting point.

Dramatic literature or its performance; drama

The act of following such a path or route.

The milieu of actors and playwrights.

A journey made on such a path or route.

The quality or effectiveness of a theatrical production

A closed path followed or capable of being followed by an electric current.

Dramatic material or the use of such material

A configuration of electrically or electromagnetically connected components or devices.

The audience assembled for a dramatic performance.

A regular or accustomed course from place to place; a round:a salesperson on the Detroit–Minneapolis–Chicago circuit; a popular speaker on the lecture circuit.

A place that is the setting for dramatic events.

The area covered by such a course, especially by the judge or judges of a court.

A large geographic area in which military operations are coordinated

An association of theaters in which plays, acts, or films move from theater to theater for presentation.

A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.

A group of nightclubs, show halls, or resorts at which enterners appear in turn.

A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.

A series of competitions held in different places.

A lecture theatre.

To make a circuit or circuit of.

(medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.

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

(US) A cinema.

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

Drama or performance as a profession or art form.

That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.

The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.

A conspicuous but unproductive display of action.

(electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.

An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.

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

Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.

(legal) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.

That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.

(historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:

A sphere or scheme of operation.

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

A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.

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

A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented;

Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.

The art of writing and producing plays

(legal) circuit court

A region in which active military operations are in progress;

(Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.

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

(motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack

(obsolete) circumlocution

(Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.

(graph theory) A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.

A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.

To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

To travel around.

The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

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

That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.

Circumlocution.

To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

To travel around.

An electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow

A journey or route all the way around a particular place or area;

An established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to;

(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

A racetrack for automobile races

Movement once around a course;

Make a circuit;