revolve

[reĀ·volve]

When something revolves, it turns on an axis or in an orbit around something else. People who love you probably think the world revolves around you (but really, the earth revolves around the sun).

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To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.

Verb
cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"

Verb
move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"

Verb
turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"


v. i.
To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.

v. i.
To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.

v. i.
To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.

v. i.
To return; to pass.

v. t.
To cause to turn, as on an axis.

v. t.
Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.


Revolve

Re*volve" , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revolved; p. pr. & vb. n. Revolving.] [L. revolvere, revolutum; pref. re- re- + volvere to roll, turn round. See Voluble, and cf. Revolt, revolution.] 1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
If the earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour.
2. To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun. 3. To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve. 4. To return; to pass. [R.] Ayliffe.

Revolve

Re*volve", v. t. 1. To cause to turn, as on an axis.
Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile.
2. Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.
This having heard, straight I again revolved The law and prophets.

To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.

To cause to turn, as on an axis.

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Usage Examples

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

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