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Revolve Around


Synonyms: Revolve Around

Synonyms: center (v), center on (v), circle around (v), circle round (v), concentrate on (v), focus on (v), revolve about (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Revolve Around

English words defined with "revolve around": barycenter, binary, binary starCopernicandouble stargyrateplanetreelsolar system, spin, spin aroundwhirl. (references)
Specialty definitions using "revolve around": ball-enderCopernicus, Nicolaus 1473-1543Kepler, Johannes 1571-1630ROLL BUILDER. (references)

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Modern Usage: Revolve Around

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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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Revolve Around

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Books

  • Moon Struck; Hunting Strategies That Revolve Around the Moon (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Revolve Around

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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.

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Modern Translations: Revolve Around

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Revolve Around

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Revolve Around


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)

    

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)

&#82 &#101 &#118 &#111 &#108 &#118 &#101 &#32 &#65 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100

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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