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verb

Revolve v. t.

To cause to turn, as on an axis. "Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile."

Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of. "This having heard, straight I again revolved The law and prophets."

Revolve v. i. (past & past part. revolved; pres. part. revolving)

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. "If the earth revolve thus, each house near the equator must move a thousand miles an hour."

To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.

To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.

To return; to pass. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Revolve'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Revolve" Quotes from Famous Books

... quake and buckle and a yelp of terror is driven out of his bony breast—beating so high with ambition but a moment before—but the spirit does not quail as he releases the brake, sets it again slowly, carefully; the wheels revolve and begin to feel the grip of the brake shoe. Still the car seems streaking to such a wreck as will mangle him with broken rods and torn sheet steel at the bottom of the gulch. Instead, by a miracle it takes the curve with only a roar and crash of glass. ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... perfect. 'He could shut any particular eye, the other three remaining open, or, indeed, as many as he chose, each several eye seeming to be controlled by his will and acting independently of the remainder. He could also revolve each eye separately in its orbit, looking backward with one and forward with another, upward with one and downward with another simultaneously.' He was of a savage, malignant disposition, delighting in ugly tricks, teasing children, torturing helpless animals, uttering ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... Association for Transport, the energy present in the steam being thus converted into the energy of the tension of the spring. The power thus laid up in the spring is transferred to the axle by a very simple mechanism, and is sufficient to make the wheel revolve ten thousand times even if the vehicle is tolerably heavily loaded; and as the wheel has a circumference of about six feet and a half, the spring will carry the vehicle a distance of about twelve miles ...

— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka

... government not contemplated, it is believed, by the framers of the constitution or by those who constituted the first Congress under it. It has greatly increased the influence and patronage of the President and in no small degree made him the center around which the other branches of the government revolve. [4] ...

— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

... further pain, but let these go and sorrow dies, even as the seed of corn taken from the earth and deprived of water dies; the concurrent causes not uniting, then the bud and leaf cannot be born; the intricate bonds of every kind of existence, from the Deva down to the evil ways of birth, ever revolve and never cease; all this is produced from covetous desire; falling from a high estate to lower ones, all is the fault of previous deeds. But destroy the seed of covetousness and the rest, then there will be no intricate binding, but all effect of ...

— Sacred Books of the East • Various

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