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revolve

[ri-volv]

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verb (used without object)

to move in a circular or curving course or orbit: The earth revolves around the sun.

to turn around or rotate, as on an axis: The wheel revolves slowly.

to proceed or occur in a round or cycle; come around again in the process of time; recur.

to be revolved in the mind.

to focus or center on.

verb (used with object)

to cause to turn around, as on an axis.

to cause to move in a circular or curving course, as about a central point.

to think about; consider.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English revolven < Latin revolvere to roll back, equivalent to re- re- + volvere to roll, turn round

Related forms

re·volv·a·ble, adjective

re·volv·a·bly, adverb

un·re·volved, adjective

Can be confused: revolve, rotate¹.

Synonyms
1. orbit, circle. 2. See turn. 8. ponder, study.

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Some games are based on luck and revolve around cards and dice.

The scholarship in such books seems invariably to revolve.

Many diplomatic dealings these days also revolve around terror.

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Some games are based on luck and revolve around cards and dice.

The scholarship in such books seems invariably to revolve.

Many diplomatic dealings these days also revolve around terror.

Bedouins' lives revolve around the search for a water source.

The planets all revolve around the sun in the same direction and in virtually the same plane.

Most of my memories revolve around the street that my family lived on.

Discussions frequently revolve around names for the cleaner and its perceived gender.

No longer does it revolve around whether the research is ethical.

We also need to remember that the world does not revolve around any one adult.

Senate and gubernatorial races tend to revolve around local issues and personalities.

The rest of the particles and objects continued to revolve around the sun, colliding with each other in clumps.

Carpenter ants live in large colonies that revolve around a queen that lays all of the fertilized eggs.

The new rules governing this global restructuring revolve around several axes.

But horsemanship here does not revolve around bull riding or steer wrestling.

Most of the high-profile pay scandals in higher education revolve around perks, rather than base salaries.

For them, questions of public morality often revolve around what it means to be a decent, tolerant society.

His languid rhythms and floating, world-weary vocals revolve around virtuoso oud flights.

Most of her problems revolve around her social behavior.

Some revolve around saving mages from templars, others center on saving templars from mages.

Wake up extroverts, the world does not revolve around you.

But the computer business will no longer revolve around writing big, stand-alone programs.

We need entomologists to remind us that the world does not revolve around us.

The issues that you raise likely revolve around total solar output, which is not correlative.

Once the interview is over, play moves on to the formal job phase, which is what the games revolve around.

Most of my student excuses revolve around car issues, sickness, etc.

Her answers revolve around her lengthy description of her own family's pioneer history.

The big questions revolve around light in the early universe.

He seemed lost without a repressive regime to undermine, disconnected if the conversation didn't revolve around politics.

Don't forget the number of prosecutions everywhere that revolve around money and politics.

America's deficit problems do not revolve around military spending.

In the future, the stock market will not revolve around brokers or dealers or specialists.

She's a prototypical heroine of her day because her life had to revolve around her relationships and her family.

Many of the stories in the press revolve around squabbles over land in the fast-growing capital.

The second question seems to revolve around the relative costs of various courses of action.

Bond markets, unlike stockmarkets, revolve around quotes from dealers.

Another set of ideas about unfairness revolve around unequal market access.

Suggestions to improve this situation often revolve around transfiguring the source of the problem into the solution:.

Photosynthetic plants on other planets that revolve around different kinds of suns could be mostly gray or black.

Whether your backyard plans this summer revolve around a hibachi and a pair of folding chairs, or a fully equipped cooking.

The objections revolve around provisions that retroactively set new rules about where prior offenders may live.

Dinners revolve around all-you-can-eat platters of homemade fried.

Their life came to revolve round the polo seasons in which he starred:.

The shortest distance between two points really is a freeway, and life does revolve around the automobile.

They often revolve around the travails of new arrivals in big cities-an experience familiar across the continent.

The issue seems to revolve around interpreting subjective data on animal cognition.

Danny's plight is only the central drama around which several other conflicts revolve.

Your life will pretty much revolve around the expat community.

But then life is not supposed to revolve only around the.

Many of the comments seem to revolve around the inability of the instructor to teach effectively with technology.

These phenomena revolve around the question of symmetry.

Consumer culture, and indeed popular culture, revolve in large part around shared.

Humans appear to have evolved dual survival strategies that revolve around our moral engine.

For a while-maybe a generation-pop culture pastimes will revolve around politics and farming.

Sometimes my ideas revolve around bedsheets that are violently ripped or are tethered to fast-moving vehicles.

And, some of these sales pitches revolve around positive economic benefits to the prospective students.

Most of their arguments revolve around which government officials acted illegally or improperly.

At certain points, the cars stop and revolve on enormous turntables before heading off in a new direction.

The cutting-edge coverage today does not typically revolve around the greening of fill-in-the-blank company.

In my simplified world there's a basic formula for salsa and the changes all revolve around it.

The market had come to revolve around the dynamics of demand and supply.

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World English Dictionary

revolve (rɪˈvɒlv)

—vb
1.	to move or cause to move around a centre or axis; rotate
2.	(intr) to occur periodically or in cycles
3.	to consider or be considered
4.	(intr; foll by around or about) to be centred or focused (upon): Juliet's thoughts revolved around Romeo

—n
5.	theatre a circular section of a stage that can be rotated by electric power to provide a scene change

[C14: from Latin revolvere, from re- + volvere to roll, wind]

re'volvable

—*adj*

re'volvably

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

revolve

late 14c., from L. revolvere "turn, roll back," from re- "back, again" + volvere "to roll" (see vulva). Meaning "travel around a central point" first recorded 1660s. Revolver as a type of pistol is from 1835, so called by U.S. inventor Samuel Colt (1814-1862).

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"A tragic poet will never think of grouping around the chief character in his play secondary characters to serve as simplified copies, so to speak, of the former. The hero of a tragedy represents an individuality unique of its kind. It may be possible to imitate him, but then we shall be passing, whether consciously or not, from the tragic to the comic. No one is like him, because he is like no one. But a remarkable instinct, on the contrary, impels the comic poet, once he has elaborated his central character, to cause other characters, displaying the same general traits, to revolve as satellites round him."

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