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revolving

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Word definitions for revolving in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, present participle adjective from revolve (v.). Revolving door attested from 1856 in industrial processes, 1896 in buildings.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES revolving door ▪ The park director position has been a revolving door for seven appointees. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN credit ▪ Proceeds will be used primarily to repay revolving credit borrowings, to finance ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of something that revolves or turns. vb. (present participle of revolve English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; ...

Usage examples of revolving.

Three modes of applying this operation by the mechanical apparatus are in use, effected by the Direct, the Rotary, and the Revolving Kneader.

In the centre was a barograph whose function it was to trace an ink line on a revolving drum of graphpaper.

Two nights now, that brisket had rested inside the little house with the revolving door.

Gertrude Winlow, revolving like a faintly coloured statue, to young Tharp, with his clean face and his fair bullety head, who danced as though he were riding at a bullfinch.

The music was old age, a twenty-first-century blend of synthesized sounds and harsh percussive beats revolving vaguely around a pentatonic scale.

Tim and his noble guests dawdled over their postprandial wines and cordials in the lamplit dining chamber, tall bonfires threw leaping, dancing shadows in both main and rear courtyards, where lancers and dragoons, Ahrmehnee and Kindred milled and laughed and shouted, gorging themselves on coarse bread and dripping chunks carved from the whole oxen slowly revolving on the spits, guzzling tankards of foaming beer, tart cider and watered wine.

Tanar could see the great eyeballs revolving beneath the pulsing skin of the protuberances and though he could see no eyes, he knew that he was being examined coldly and calculatingly.

They sat beneath the revolving punkah fans at the long walnut table which extended to seat thirty persons and they talked about death.

While the routineers see machinery and precedents revolving with mankind as puppets, he puts the deliberate, conscious, willing individual at the center of his philosophy.

With a total of about fifty positions of storeman, employees were virtually coming and going through a revolving door.

Profoundly perplexed, Theos ascended the steps before him, his mind anxiously revolving all the strange adventures of the night, while a dim sense of some unspeakable, coming calamity brooded darkly upon him.

Half maddened by the shrieks and dying groans that resounded everywhere about him, and yet all the time feeling as though he were some spectator set apart, and condemned to watch the progress of a ghastly phantasmagoria in Hell, Theos was just revolving in his mind whether it would or would not be possible to make a determined climb for escape through one of the tall painted windows, some of which were not yet reached by the fire, when, with a sudden passionate exclamation, Sah-luma broke from his hold and rushed to the Sanctuary.

In the framework of Strongbowism events were random and haphazard and life was unruly and unruled, given to whimsy in the beginning and shaken by chaos at the end, a kind of unbroken sensual wheel made up of many sexes and ages revolving through time on the point of an orgasm.

The revolving volvox likewise increases by growth until it becomes a society of animals, a multiple system of individuals.

Afton and I walk through the revolving doors of the Biltmore Hotel and into the fantasy.