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revolving

[ ri-vol-ving ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

that revolves:
a revolving table top.
Machinery. noting or pertaining to a radial engine whose cylinders revolve around a stationary crankshaft, as the engine of a helicopter.

revolving

/ rɪˈvɒlvɪŋ /

moving around a central axis
revolving door
(of a fund) constantly added to from income from its investments to offset outgoing payments
(of a letter of credit, load, etc) available to be repeatedly drawn on by the beneficiary provided that a specified amount is never exceeded

First recorded in 1690–1700; revolve + -ing ²

The ambiguity revolving around the event made it a poor candidate for a final showdown.

A stand-up comedian in a self-titled sitcom revolving around his musings about nothing?

Fed up of being surrounded by a revolving cast of affluent crashing bores, I vowed to get out more.

Evolve a revolving roundtable of women, or men, with diverse, unpredictable views.

Outside, to the left of the revolving doors, is where he would smoke his after-dinner cigarette.

The fingers of all the clocks in the house were revolving with the most extraordinary rapidity--she was helpless.

Her eye fastened on a circular portion of the wall-paper pattern, and she felt that the whole room was revolving about her.

The large size of the rag-wheel gave the rapidly revolving chain and balls a great speed.

It is a revolving light and may be seen at the distance of ten leagues.

Up the tube vapours may be seen ascending at great speed, the whole appearing like a gigantic pillar of swiftly revolving smoke.

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