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Synonyms: Revolve AroundSynonyms: center (v), center on (v), circle around (v), circle round (v), concentrate on (v), focus on (v), revolve about (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Revolve Around |
| English words defined with "revolve around": barycenter, binary, binary star ♦ Copernican ♦ double star ♦ gyrate ♦ planet ♦ reel ♦ solar system, spin, spin around ♦ whirl. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "revolve around": ball-ender ♦ Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473-1543 ♦ Kepler, Johannes 1571-1630 ♦ ROLL BUILDER. (references) |
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Screenplays | Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Do you understand that the world does not revolve around you and your do whatever it takes, ruin as many people's lives, so long as you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose or people you leave dead and bloodied along the way, just so long so you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose or people you leave dead and bloodied and dying along the way? (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller) | |
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Health | Make a special effort to find private times to communicate with your spouse, or if you are a single parent, with others close to you. Don't allow all your discussions to revolve around the sick child. (references) | |
Business | These services revolve around wireless communications and IP networks. (references) | |
In both instances, marketing strategies revolve around golf tournaments. (references) | ||
Economic History | Mauritius | Relations between the United States and Mauritius are cordial and largely revolve around trade. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "revolve around"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 圍繞 (center on). (various references) | ||||
French | tourner autour. (various references) | ||||
German | umkreisen (circle, circle around, orbit, revolve, to revolve). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | evolveray arounday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-o-o-r-r-u-v-v" | |
-3 letters: overvalued. | |
-4 letters: endeavour, launderer, overdrove, overladen, overlearn, overloved, overruled, overvalue, unevolved, unraveled. | |
-5 letters: aleurone, aureoled, devourer, endeavor, lavender, louvered, oleander, overdare, overdear, overdoer, overdone, overlade, overland, overlend, overload, overlord, overloud, overlove, overnear, overrode, overrude, overrule, reloader, reloaned, revalued, revenual, revolved, revolver, unloader. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 76 6F 6C 76 65      41 72 6F 75 6E 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110110 01101111 01101100 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e v o l v e   A r o u n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0076 006F 006C 0076 0065      0041 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527188817888712358481878070 |
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