Convolve

Definition: Convolve

Convolve

Verb

1. Curl, wind, or twist together.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Convolve \Con*volve"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Convolved; present participle verb or noun Convolving.]. (references)

Synonym: Convolve

Crosswords: Convolve

Albanian

thuret (be knitted), thur (braid, enmesh, fence, knit, pleach, shut up, spin, splice, stitch, twine, twist, weave), pleksem (intermingle, mix), pleks. (various references)

Bulgarian 

усуквам (equivocate, lay, palter, strand, tergiversate, throw, twist), намотавам (lap, reel, wind, wind up), извивам (bend, curl, curve, elbow, incurve, pull round, recurve, screw, turn, twine, twist, wreathe, wring, writhe). (various references)

Czech

vinout se (coil, meander, roll, wind). (various references)

German

zusammenrollen (furl, roll up, to convolve). (various references)

Hungarian

összecsavar (interwind, to roll up, to screw up, to scroll, twine). (various references)

Indonesian

menggulung (come in rolls, defeat, scroll, waves, wreathe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

コンマ以下 (below the decimal, cockroach, commune, connecting rod, con-rod, conversion, convert, convolution, cornrow style, ghost, ghost town, ghost writer, giving permission, go steady, goal, goal getter, goal kick, goal line, goal post, goal reached, goalkeeper, goatability, go-cart, goggles, go-go, go-go dance, going my way, gold, gold medalist, gold rush, Goldberg, golden, golden age, golden disk, golden hour, golden time, Golden Week, golem, Gordon, gorgeous, gothic, green light, hit the goal, make the goal, of no account, prime time, traffic light). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

コンヴォルヴ . (various references)

Manx

rowley er y cheilley. (various references)

Pig Latin

onvolvecay.(various references)

Portuguese

envolver (beset, circumvent, close, cover, draw in, enclasp, encompass, enfold, entangle, envelop, enwrap, fold, gird, implicate, import, invest, involve, lap, lap up, mantle, mix up, wind, wrap), enrolar (coil, convolute, crisp, curl, furl, hank, lap, lap up, roll, roll up, twirl, twist, wind up, wrap, wrap up), embrulhar (bundle, embroil, fold, parcel, put up, ravel, to wrap, wrap up). (various references)

Romanian

strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), se strânge (bank up, close, collect, cuddle, curl up, draw, flock, furl, herd, jam, join, mass, mob, nuzzle, pack, pile up, snuggle, squash, squeeze, straiten), se rãsuci (curl, curl up, spin, swirl, wheel, wind, wriggle, wriggle oneself), se înfãşura (fold, furl, lap), se împãturi (fold), rãsuci (contort, curl, dislocate, entwist, revolve, roll, screw, set, snake, spin, sprain, turn, twist, wield, wring), înfãşura (braid, coil, enfold, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, fold, furl, lap, muffle, pack, parcel, roll, swathe, twine, wind, wrap), împãturi (fold, lap). (various references)

Russian 

свертываться (clabber, cloth, coagulate, coil, furl, posset), свертывать (coagulate, furl, roll into, roll up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smotati u rolnu. (various references)

Spanish

retorcerse (squirm, twist, writhe). (various references)

Ukrainian

скручуватися (congeal, curl up), скручувати (roll, truss, twist up, wring), згортатися (furl), згортати (belay, enrol, enroll, fold, furl, roll up). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "convolve": convolved, convolves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Convolve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Coenvvlf, coevolve, convol, convolver, Cornholme, Ecovalve. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cloven, colone.

-3 letters: clone, clove, colon, coven, novel.

-4 letters: clon, cole, cone, cool, coon, cove, enol, leno, levo, loco, lone, loon, love, noel, nolo, oleo, once, oven, vole.

-5 letters: cel, col, con, coo, eon, lev, loo, noo, ole, one, voe.

+1 letter: convolved, convolves.

+2 letters: coevolving.

+5 letters: convolvuluses.