Revolve

Definitions: Revolve

Revolve

Verb

1. 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".

2. Move in an orbit, as of celestial bodies: "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun".

3. To rotate or cause to rotate: "The child rolled down the hill"; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"; "turn over to your left side".

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

Date "revolve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Aerospace

Fine Arts

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REVOLVE

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Synonyms: Revolve

Regularity of recurrence Periodicity

Verb: recur in regular order, recur in regular succession; return, revolve; come again, come in its turn; come round, come round again; beat, pulsate; alternate; intermit.

Rotation

Verb: rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve; circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle, troll, bowl.

Thought

Take into consideration; take counsel; (be advised); commune with oneself, bethink oneself; collect one's thoughts; revolve in the mind, turn over in the mind, run over in the mind; chew the cud upon, sleep upon; take counsel of one's pillow, advise with one's pillow.

Crosswords: Revolve

Look, Iris, the world does not revolve round your body - this bloke Gallileo proved it: it revolves around the sun. (The Sweeney; writing credit: Brian Faull; John Martin)

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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Books

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

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Music

• Revolve (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Revolve Design Universal Mount Kit for Palm VII, III, and Pilot (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The seekers of the future revolve about the splendid present.

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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)

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Expressions using "revolve": revolve about ♦ revolve around ♦ revolve on a axis ♦ revolve on a spindle ♦ revolve one's mind. Additional references.

Ending with "revolve": drum-revolve, half-revolve.

Albanian

rrotulloj (crank, gyrate, rotate, slue round, spin, swing, swivel, traverse, twist, whirl), rrotullohem (bowl along, circle, mill, slew, turn, turn about, turn over, wheel), vërtitem (circle, dance, flitter, flutter, gyrate, loiter, mill, mooch, move, move about, Potter, roll, turn, turn round, wheel, whirl round). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعاقب (alternate, alternation, gradation, interchange, progression, rotate, rotation, sequence, series, succeed, succession), ‏تركز على (premise), ‏تدور حول, ‏أدار حول محور, ‏دار (circle, come round, dwelling, go, gyrate, hand round, home, house, operate, orb, orbit, pan, parlor, parlour, residence, rotate, round, screw, spin, spun, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, turn over, twiddle, twirl, up and about, wheel, whirl, wind). (various references)

Bulgarian 

въртя (manage, move, roll, roll about, rotate, spin, sway, swing, switch, swivel, toss about, trifle, turn, twiddle, wag, wheel about, wiggle, wind), връщам се периодически, обсъждам (agitate, argue, bethink, confer, consult, deliberate, discuss, parley, powwow, reason, talk about, talk over, ventilate), обмислям (agitate, bethink, cogitate, consider, debate, deliberate, digest, meditate, mull, ponder, pore, reason, speculate, study, think about, think out, think over, turn over in one's mind). (various references)

Chinese 

輥 (stone roller), 迴轉 (rotate, rotation), 旋转 (revolved, revolving, rotational, Slewed, SPIN, Twirled, Twirling, Whirl, Whirled, Whirling), 旋 (lathe, specially for an occasion). (various references)

Czech

uvažovat (cogitate, ponder, ratiocinate, reflect, ruminate, think, think of), toèit se (curve, go round, rotate, swim, swirl, turn, twirl, twist, veer, whiffle), přemítat (deliberate, ponder, ruminate), otáèet se (gyrate, pivot, rotate, spin, veer, wheel), obíhat (circulate, orbit). (various references)

Farsi 

چرخیدن (Pivot, Reel, Rollup, Rotate, Swing, Trill, Troll, Trundle, Turquoise, Twirl, Wheel, Whirl, Windmill, Wry), گردیدن (Roam, Swirl), گردش کردن (Promenade, Rove, Trip, Walk), تغییرکردن (Change), سیرکردن (Cloy, Englut, Glut, Roam, Sate, Satiate, Saturate), دورزدن (Circle, Compass, Recur, Round, Skirt, Twinge). (various references)

French

tourner, se succéder, scène tournante (revolving set, revolving stage), graviter, faire tourner, centrer sur. (various references)

German

sich drehen (change, go around, go round, gyrate, pivot, rotate, shift, spin, spin round, squirm, swing, swivel, to revolve, turn, twist, veer). (various references)

Greek 

περιστρέφω (rotate, slew, slue, wheel), περιστρέφομαι (gyrate, rotate, slew, slue, spin). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחוג (circle, make a circle), להרהר (contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think), להסתובב (get about, perambulate, roll, rotate, slue, swivel, tour, turn, turn around, turn over, turn round), לגלגל (bring about, knead, roll, trundle), לסובב (circuit, roll, rotate, slue, sprain, twiddle, wind). (various references)

Hungarian

forog (gyrate, rotate, slue, spun, swung, to gyrate, to hinge, to spin, to swing, to swivel, to traverse, to turn round and round, to twirl, to whirl, turn), forgat (distort, rotate, span, spin, spun, swivel, to feather, to indorse, to rotate, to spin, to swivel, to turn over, to twirl, turn over, twirl, wield). (various references)

Indonesian

memutarkan (rotate), edar (circle, circulate), bergelinding (get moving), berbaling. (various references)

Italian

ruotare (circle, roll, rotate, spin, swing, swivel, twiddle, wheel, wheel about), meditare (brood, cogitate, contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, reflect, speculate), girare (circulate, endorse, go round, gyrate, indorse, make, reel, rotate, round, shoot, spin, stir, swing, swirl, to turn, to wander, turn, twirl, twist, veer, wander, wheel, whirl, wind), considerare (account, bethink, call, consider, consider oneself, contemplate, count, debate, esteem, find, lookup, ponder, put down, rate, reck, reckon, reckon in, regard, take, take into account, think highly of, think of, to consider, to treat, treat, view). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

舞う (to dance, to flutter about, to revolve), 回る (to revolve, to turn, to visit several places). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まう (to dance, to flutter about, to revolve), まわす (to revolve, to turn), まわる (to revolve, to turn, to visit several places). (various references)

Korean 

회귀하십시요. (various references)

Manx

chyndaa (avert, avert eyes, convert, deflect, invert, quirk, return, translate, turn, turn over, twirl). (various references)

Pig Latin

evolveray

Portuguese

rodar (circle, reseat, rotate, slue round, swing, turn, wheel), girar (circle, circuit, dance, gyrate, pivot, slue, slue round, spin, swing, troll, trundle, turn, turn around, turn back, turn round, twiddle, wind), dar voltas (go around, slue), andar à volta (circumambulate, turn, twirl). (various references)

Romanian

roti (roll, rotate, spin, swing, turn, wheel, whirl), reveni la intervale regulate (cycle), rãsuci (contort, convolve, curl, dislocate, entwist, roll, screw, set, snake, spin, sprain, turn, twist, wield, wring), se învârti (circumgyrate, go round, gyrate, mill, move, reel, run, spin, spin round, swim, swirl, turn, twirl, wind), preocupa (concern, occupy, preoccupy, reck), medita la, gravita (gravitate), frãmânta în minte, învârti (brandish, dance, grind, manipulate, roll, rotate, spin, turn, turn round, twiddle, twirl, twist, wheel, whirl, wield, wind). (various references)

Russian 

вращаться (circle, gyrate, move, run, slew, turn, turn around). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obrnuti (convert, invert, switch, turn). (various references)

Spanish

revolverse (churn, squirm, tumble, turn over), hacer girar (gyrate, pivot, rotate, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, twiddle, wheel, whirl), girar (back, derange, draw, endorse, go round, gyrate, hinge, Rev, rotate, slew, slue, spin, swish, swivel round, to turn, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, twiddle, twist, twist round, veer, wheel, wind, wind up), dar vueltas sobre (spin, wheel, whirl round). (various references)

Swedish

rotera (gyrate, rotate, wheel). (various references)

Turkish

etrafında dönmek (circuit, round), devretmek (alienate, assign, cede, circuit, circulate, convey, deliver, devolve, dispose of, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, pass on, slew, slue, transfer, turn over), devretme (alienation, assignment, cession, circulation, delivery, demise, devolution, transfer), devir yapmak, düşünüp taşınmak (calculate, chew, cogitate, cogitate over, debate, debate with oneself, look round, mull over, ponder, ponder over, pore, reason, reason out, reflect, ruminate, think over, turn over, turn over in one's mind, weigh, worry out), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), döndürmek (deflect, return, reverse, roll, rotate, round off, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn inside out, turn over, turn round, twiddle, twirl, veer, veer round, wheel, whip, whirl, wind, wind up). (various references)

Turkmen 

hozanaklamak (turn). (various references)

Ukranian 

обмірковувати (cast, chew, deliberate, discuss, mull over, perpend, ponder, ponderate, think over, turn over), обертатися (circle, circuit, encircle, encompass, pivot, rotate, slew, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, wheel, whirl), обертати (rotate, slew, swivel, turn, wheel). (various references)

Welsh

troi (convert, plough, turn), cylchdroi (rotate), chwyldroi (rotate, whirl). (various references)

agitabit, agitabitur, agitati, conversa, conversae, conversi, conversique, conversum, conversus, conversusque, convertam, convertantur, convertar, convertat, convertatur, converte, convertebantur, convertebat, convertemini, convertemur, convertemus, convertendas, convertendo, convertendos, convertendum, convertens, convertent, convertentem, convertentes, convertenti, convertentibus, convertentur, converterat, convertere, converteremur, converterentur, converteret, converteretur, converterint, converteris, converterit, convertero, converteruntque, convertes, convertet, convertetur, converti, convertimini, convertimur, convertis, convertissem, convertisti, convertistis, convertit, convertitis, convertitque, converto, convertuntur, convoluta, obvolutae, obvolutum, obvolutus, revolvere, rota, rotabitur, rotas, voluerant, voluerat, voluerim, voluerimus, voluerint, volueris, voluerisque, voluerit, volueritis, volueritque, voluero, voluerunt, volui, voluimus, voluisse, voluissem, voluissent, voluisses, voluisset, voluisti, voluistis, voluit, voluitque, volve, volvebatur, volvere, volverem, volveretur, volvetur, volvi, volvit, volvite. (various references)

trenden. (various references)

verser. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "revolve": revolved, revolver, revolvers, revolves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Revolve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ravvolse, revalve, revol, Revolte, revolv. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: evolver.

-1 letter: evolve.

-2 letters: elver, lever, lover, revel, verve.

-3 letters: ever, leer, levo, lore, love, orle, over, reel, role, rove, veer, vole.

-4 letters: eel, ere, eve, lee, lev, ole, ore, ree, rev, roe, vee, voe.

-5 letters: el, er, lo, oe, or, re.

+1 letter: evolvers, overlive, overlove, revolved, revolver, revolves.

+2 letters: overlived, overlives, overloved, overloves, overvalue, revolvers.

+3 letters: overvalued, overvalues, revolvable.

+4 letters: overdevelop, overviolent, overvoltage.

+5 letters: cloverleaves, interinvolve, overdevelops, overvoltages.

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