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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
revolve
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
revolve/rotate
▪ Because of the direction in which the Earth revolves, the sun always rises in the east and sets in the west.
revolving door
▪ The park director position has been a revolving door for seven appointees.
the pivot on/around which sth turns/revolves
▪ Iago’s lie is the pivot on which the play turns.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪ Health education will have to revolve around the adoption of safer practices.
▪ Much of the instruction revolves around projects that students undertake in teams.
▪ She says her life revolved around the ice rink - she had to fit her personal life in around her skating.
▪ The entire celestial model revolves around the motionless earth once every twenty-four hours.
▪ One of the central contrasts between the two novels revolves around the value of position.
▪ Her life revolves around her children, she said.
▪ The question revolves around whether revenue should have been recognised in the first place, i.e. had a sale taken place at all.
▪ Much of this chapter appears to revolve around learning from adversity.
round
▪ An atmospheric piece, revolving round a white shrine to his father, complete with icons and religious objects.
▪ From the tone is dull and lifeless, and no important solo-work revolving round these notes should be given to the clarinet.
▪ It was very undemanding, revolving round the borrowing of clothes, and helping each other with routines.
▪ The room revolved round her and she ran her tongue over suddenly dry lips.
▪ We have seasons that seem to revolve round the grape harvest.
▪ Most thinking on the preservation of houses revolves round major aristocratic seats or ancient manor houses.
slowly
▪ An enormous structure, resembling a Calder mobile, and hung with green and blue lights, revolves slowly.
▪ A disco ball revolved slowly above the empty dance-floor.
▪ As he slowly revolved he observed all points of the compass with eyes wide in wonder.
▪ He remained where he was, slowly revolving to face me, a rotating star to my ellipsis of erratic wandering.
▪ Overhead, the fan revolved slowly.
■ NOUN
earth
▪ To set the earth revolving around the sun was to set all hell on the move.
▪ C., Aristarchus calculated that the earth revolves around the sun.
▪ Men give ear to an upstart astronomer who tries to show that the Earth revolves, not the Sun and the Moon.
life
▪ It revealed an unrepentantly superficial world where life revolved around the minutiae of outward appearances and public display.
▪ The reasoning is that legislators' lives revolve around the election cycles.
▪ Village life still revolves around the squares, the quaysides and the tavernas.
▪ The social life of the village revolved around the club; the clubhouse was like a den.
▪ She says her life revolved around the ice rink - she had to fit her personal life in around her skating.
▪ Her life revolves around her children, she said.
▪ Bob was used to testing people, his whole life revolved around it.
▪ Up to secondary school her life had revolved around the family and the Salvation Army.
world
▪ It revealed an unrepentantly superficial world where life revolved around the minutiae of outward appearances and public display.
▪ Am I just so narrow that I believe the world revolves around Kip?
▪ It has taught me that the world doesn't revolve around me.
▪ To me everything in this world revolves around community, school, family, religion, and the Boys &038; Girls Club.
▪ Mr Kravchuk's trouble is that the world does not revolve round Kiev.
▪ For many people living on their own, their social world may revolve around visits from or to relatives.
▪ Linkage assumed that world politics revolved around the constant struggle for supremacy between the great powers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
think (that) the world revolves around you
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A green and blue mobile revolved slowly above our heads.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For many, the critical point in the conflict will revolve around giving up work.
▪ His whole sensibility revolves around the fact that he was born white and is now a cop.
▪ Other reasons revolve around the changing demands and expectations of consumers and their agents.
▪ Piper leaned backwards, staggering, and watched the room revolve until his brain seemed to hum with the motion.
▪ Yannis Kokkos' sets keep revolving for 110 minutes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revolve

Revolve \Re*volve"\, v. t.

  1. To cause to turn, as on an axis.

    Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile.
    --Milton.

  2. 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.
    --Milton.

Revolve

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.

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

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

  3. To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.

  4. To return; to pass. [R.]
    --Ayliffe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
revolve

late 14c., "to change direction, bend around, turn (the eyes) back," from Old French revolver and directly from Latin revolvere "roll back, unroll, unwind; happen again, return; go over, repeat," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + volvere "to roll" (see volvox). In 15c., "to turn over (in the mind or heart), meditate." Meaning "travel around a central point" first recorded 1660s (earlier "cause to travel in an orbit around a central point," mid-15c.). Related: Revolved; revolving.

Wiktionary
revolve

vb. 1 (label en intransitive) To orbit a central point. 2 To turn on an axis. 3 (label en intransitive) To recur in cycles. 4 (label en transitive) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

WordNet
revolve
  1. v. 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: go around, rotate]

  2. move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus" [syn: orbit]

  3. 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]

Wikipedia
Revolve

Revolve, Danger Danger's seventh studio album, marks the return of lead vocalist Ted Poley. It is also the first Danger Danger studio album to feature Rob Marcello on guitar.

Revolve (disambiguation)

Revolve is an album by Danger Danger 2009

Revolve may also refer to:

  • Revolve, is an album by Beautiful Skin 2001
  • "Revolve", is a song by Melvins composed by Buzz Osborne / Mark Deutrom
  • "Revolve", is a song by Hush The Many (Heed The Few) 2008
Revolve (John Newman album)

Revolve is the second studio album by English singer John Newman. It was released on 16 October 2015 by Universal and Island Records. The album includes the singles " Come and Get It" and " Tiring Game".

Usage examples of "revolve".

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.

All these reflexions coursed themselves through his brain, while, with the zeal of a partizan, and the fervour of one wedded to the justice of his cause, he revolved every probable change of time and fortune.

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.

But the two of them had got on well enough before the separation, and Tchicaya was sick of only talking to Preservationists at the interfactional meetings, when the entire discussion was guaranteed to revolve around a mixture of procedural issues and mutual paranoia.

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.

For we see now a dayes many excellent Philosophers greatly desire to follow his sect, and by perpetual study to value and revolve his workes, but to the end I may not be reproved of indignation by any one that might say : What, shall we suffer an Asse to play the Philosopher?

As he began to indulge the ambitious hope of restoring the ancient limits of the empire, as he revolved in his mind, the Euphrates and Tigris, the dominion of Syria, and the conquest of Jerusalem, the thread of his life and of the public felicity was broken by a singular accident.

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.

Doctor Sanderling subscribed to the ancient belief that all heavenly bodies visible in the night sky revolved around the earth.

Men with knitted hats and curly moustaches bent low over their plates eating shreds of roasted soybean cut from the imitation shawarma that revolved on a spit in the window.