Revolution

[revə'luːʃ(ə)n] or ['rɛvə'lʊʃən]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the overthrow of a government by those who are governed.

(noun.) a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; 'the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution'.

黛娜編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.

(n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.

(n.) The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events.

(n.) The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.

(n.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.

(n.) A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.

(n.) A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.

康斯坦丁校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Rotation, gyration, whirling, circular motion.[2]. Change (in the political constitution of a country), organic change, successful revolt or rebellion.

手打:拉蒙纳

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Rotation, periodicity, return, change, alteration, revulsion, revolt,reconstitution, emeute

ANT:Fixity, permanence, stability, conservation, allegiance, stabilisation,perpetuation, suppression

亚历山大校對

解釋/意思:

n. act of revolving: motion round a centre: course which brings to the same point or state: space measured by a revolving body: a radical change as of one's way of living: fundamental change in the government of a country: a revolt: a complete rotation through 360? a round of periodic changes as the revolutions of the seasons: the winding of a spiral about its axis: change of circumstances: consideration.—adj. Revolū′tionary pertaining to or tending to a revolution in government.—v.t. Revolū′tionise to cause a revolution or entire change of anything.—ns. Revolū′tionism; Revolū′tionist one who promotes or favours a revolution.—The American Revolution the change from the position of colonies to that of national independence effected by the thirteen American colonies of England in 1776; The French Revolution the downfall of the old French monarchy and the old absolutism (1789); The Revolution the expulsion of James II. from the throne of England (1689) and the establishment of a really constitutional government under William III. and Mary.

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