'Revolve' definitions:
Definition of 'revolve'
From: WordNet
verb
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" [syn: revolve, go around, rotate]
verb
Move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus" [syn: orb, orbit, revolve]
verb
Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words" [syn: roll, revolve]
Definition of 'Revolve'
From: GCIDE
- Revolve \Re*volve"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revolved; p. pr. & vb. n. Revolving.] [L. revolvere, revolutum; pref. re- re- + volvere to roll, turn round. See Voluble, and cf. Revolt, revolution.]
- 1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. [1913 Webster]
- If the earth revolve thus, each house near the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To return; to pass. [R.] --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Revolve'
From: GCIDE
- Revolve \Re*volve"\, v. t.
- 1. To cause to turn, as on an axis. [1913 Webster]
- Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of. [1913 Webster]
- This having heard, straight I again revolved The law and prophets. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'revolve'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alternate,
- be here again,
- brood over,
- chaw,
- chew over,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circuiteer,
- circulate,
- circulation,
- circumambulate,
- circummigrate,
- circumnavigate,
- circumrotate,
- circumvent,
- circumvolute,
- circumvolution,
- close the circle,
- come again,
- come and go,
- come around,
- come full circle,
- come round,
- come round again,
- come up again,
- compass,
- con over,
- consider,
- contemplate,
- convert,
- crank,
- cycle,
- deliberate,
- deliberate over,
- deliberate upon,
- depend,
- describe a circle,
- digest,
- encircle,
- encompass,
- evert,
- flank,
- girdle,
- girdle the globe,
- go about,
- go around,
- go round,
- go the round,
- gyrate,
- gyration,
- gyre,
- intermit,
- introvert,
- intussuscept,
- invaginate,
- inverse,
- invert,
- lap,
- make a circuit,
- meditate,
- meditate upon,
- mull over,
- muse,
- muse on,
- muse over,
- orbit,
- oscillate,
- pirouette,
- pivot,
- ponder,
- ponder over,
- pronate,
- pulsate,
- pulse,
- reappear,
- recur,
- reel,
- reflect over,
- reflect upon,
- rely,
- reoccur,
- repeat,
- resupinate,
- return,
- reverse,
- roll,
- roll around,
- rotate,
- rotation,
- round,
- ruminate,
- ruminate over,
- run over,
- screw,
- skirt,
- spin,
- spiral,
- supinate,
- surround,
- swing,
- swivel,
- think about,
- think over,
- transpose,
- turn,
- turn a pirouette,
- turn about,
- turn around,
- turn down,
- turn in,
- turn inside out,
- turn out,
- turn over,
- turn round,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn upside down,
- twirl,
- twist,
- undulate,
- wamble,
- weigh,
- wheel,
- wheel around,
- whirl,
- wind