Revolve meaning
Revolve meaning 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).
Revolve comes from those useful Latin roots re- “again” or “back” and volvere “roll,” as seen in evolution, involve, and lots of other familiar words. Picture a revolving door, and you can understand what it means to revolve, or turn in a circular motion.
Definitions of revolve
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turn on or around an axis or a center
“The Earth
revolves around the Sun”- circumvolve, rotate
cause to turn on an axis or center
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- drive in, screw
cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- screw
turn like a screw
- wheel, wheel around
change directions as if revolving on a pivot
- gyrate, reel, spin, spin around, whirl
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one’s own axis
- swirl, twiddle, twirl, whirl
turn in a twisting or spinning motion
- screw up
screw or turn higher
- cartwheel
do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet
- whirligig
whirl or spin like a whirligig
type of:
- turn
move around an axis or a center
- circumvolve, rotate
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move in an orbit
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cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
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