Revolve
[rɪ'vɒlv] or [rɪ'vɔlv]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Rotate, wheel, turn, whirl, circulate, roll, gyrate, go round, turn round.
v. a. Consider, meditate, ponder, study, reflect upon, ruminate upon, brood over.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Contemplate, turn, consider, weigh, ponder, examine, wheel, rotate, circulate
ANT:Discard, disregard, dismiss, misconsider
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Definition
v.i. to roll back: to roll round on an axis: to move round a centre: to rotate as the planets: to meditate.—v.t. to cause to turn: to consider.—n. a radical change.—v.i. Rev′olute to revolve.—adj. rolled backward.—adjs. Rev′olūtive cogitating; Revol′vable.—ns. Revolve′ment reflection; Revol′vency revolution.—adj. Revol′ving turning moving round.—ns. Revol′ving-fur′nace a furnace used in making black ash; Revol′ving-light a lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at intervals.
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Examples
- It is next passed to the cooking department and placed in huge steam-jacketed kettles, which revolve continually and thus keep the chicle from scorching. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Ordinarily the gun has ten barrels, with ten corresponding locks, which revolve together during the working of the gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A circular disk, bearing a circular series of figures is mounted on a handle to revolve. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Donkin and Bacon proposed placing the types upon a prism, which was to revolve against an irregularly shaped cylinder, on which the paper was to be placed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Among the century's improvements in this line is the use of disks in place of the old shovel blades to penetrate the earth and revolve in contact therewith. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They were like those double stars which revolve round and round each other, and from a distance appear to be one. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The velocity with which the pump should revolve depends upon the height to which the water is to be raised. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Inside it there revolves another cylinder, made also of thin sheet iron, and divided into four compartments, marked _d_, _d_, _d_, _d_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This interior cylinder readily revolves on an axis, _g_, _g_, shown in the section of the instrument as seen edgewise. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The bolster is an upright sleeve bearing, in which the spindle revolves, and against which is sustained the pull of the band that drives the spindle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When politics revolves mechanically it ceases to use the real energies of a nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In 1784, Mr. Bramah obtained a patent for a propeller similar in its forms to the vanes of a windmill, which by acting obliquely on the water as it revolved, pushed the boat forward. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Only so much of this disc was exposed to view as to show a single letter at a time, through a small aperture, as the seconds wheel revolved. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The heat, of whatever origin, is applied from below, and the shaft being revolved, four of the armatures lose their magnetism constantly, while the other four gain it, so to speak. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I revolved a thousand and a thousand plans. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I revolved many projects; but that on which I finally fixed was, to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The annexed woodcuts show the figure of this Revolver, with the working parts round the lock exposed to view, together with the shape of the revolving chambered breech. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The wheel is kept revolving, and a man on one side is kept constantly busy in filling the molds with the molten material as they reach him. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It must be revolving by itself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In 1806 Gladstone devised a front-draft, side-cut machine, in which a curved segment-bar with fingers gathered the grain and held it while a horizontally revolving knife cut the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A point worth considering; and while revolving it, I mechanically dressed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Whitney