Revolution
[revə'luːʃ(ə)n] or ['rɛvə'lʊʃən]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rotation, gyration, whirling, circular motion.[2]. Change (in the political constitution of a country), organic change, successful revolt or rebellion.
Checker: Ramona
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rotation, periodicity, return, change, alteration, revulsion, revolt,reconstitution, emeute
ANT:Fixity, permanence, stability, conservation, allegiance, stabilisation,perpetuation, suppression
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Definition
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.
Editor: Vito
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In politics an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically in American history the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood but are accounted worth it—this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed. The French revolution is of incalculable value to the Socialist of to-day; when he pulls the string actuating its bones its gestures are inexpressibly terrifying to gory tyrants suspected of fomenting law and order.
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Examples
- Its object (in your English opinion) is anarchy and revolution. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was made in America, and he fought the Indian wars and the war of the Revolution with it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Against the unifying effort of Christendom and against the unifying influence of the mechanical revolution, catastrophe won. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was to protect private property that the Revolution began. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The house had stood on a tottering base for a dozen years; and at last, in the shock of the French Revolution, it had rushed down a total ruin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In a little more than a century this mechanical revolution has been brought about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There have been other periods of revolution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This awful revolution, wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, may be usefully applied to the useful instruction of the present age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And, unlike the American colonists, who simply repudiated a king, the French, following in the footsteps of the English revolution, beheaded one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But it is taking the revolution many centuries to produce a new mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Oh, a term that came up in the French Revolution, said Keck. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The nineteenth century produced a revolution. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The revolution collapsed utterly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The account of this little revolution in May Fair astonished and gave a little gaiety to an otherwise very triste conversation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The first American pins were made in Rhode Island, during the Revolution, by Jeremiah Wilkinson. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From these ends is extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions turn. Plato. The Republic.
- These revolutions require a rare combination of personal audacity and social patience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When rotating at the rate of 788 revolutions in a minute, and lifting the water 19·4 feet, the greatest practical effect, compared with the power employed, was attained. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The proportion between them, therefore, must remain the same, and cannot well be altered, at least for any considerable time, by any such revolutions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Prior to 1878 the speed of the average spindle was limited to 5,000 revolutions a minute. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is a revolutionary task, and like all real revolutions it will not be done in a day or a decade because someone orders it to be done. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The average performance of the engines was 26 strokes per minute, and the number of revolutions of the screw in the same time was 138?. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- That the great affairs of the world, the wars, revolutions, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Sims, and he undertook to build an engine to run at three hundred and fifty revolutions and give one hundred and seventy-five horse-power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The cotton passed through the two pairs of rollers, and its extension depended entirely on the difference in the velocity of the revolutions of the two pairs. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A speed of 30,000 revolutions a minute may be attained by this construction. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The ordinary revolutions of war and government easily dry up the sources of that wealth which arises from commerce only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The engine runs from 300 to 400 revolutions per minute and develops from four to five horse power. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They were practically unknown then, and when he went to an engine builder and said that he wanted a 150 horse-power engine that would run 700 revolutions per minute he was told it was impossible. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Violent revolutions may be charged up to the unreadiness of statesmen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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