Gravitate
['grævɪteɪt] or ['ɡrævɪtet]
Definition
(verb.) move due to the pull of gravitation; 'The stars gravitate towards each other'.
(verb.) be attracted to; 'Boys gravitate towards girls at that age'.
(verb.) move toward; 'The conversation gravitated towards politics'.
Typed by Leigh--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object.
Checker: Otis
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Tend by gravity.
Checked by Ernest
Examples
- She seemed to gravitate physically towards him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Still h e could not explain why the oxygen did not gravitate to the lowest place, the nitrogen form a stratum above, and the aqueous vapor swim upon the top. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The magnetic particles are attracted out of the straight line of the falling stream, and being heavy, gravitate inwardly and fall to one side of a partition placed below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To move nearer to God, he must move towards his miners, his life must gravitate towards theirs. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her presence filled him with keenness and excitement, he gravitated cunningly towards her, as if she had some unseen force of attraction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- No insight into the evident fact that power upsets all mechanical foresight and gravitates toward the natural leaders seems to have illuminated those historic deliberations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Ollie