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US
/ɹiˈvɑɫv/
]
[ UK /ɹɪvˈɒlv/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪvˈɒlv/ ]
VERB
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turn on or around an axis or a center
The Earth revolves around the Sun
The Earth revolves around the Sun
The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire -
cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
They rolled their eyes at his words
She rolled the ball -
move in an orbit
electrons orbit the nucleus
The planets are orbiting the sun
The moon orbits around the Earth
How To Use revolve In A Sentence
- Gough's songwriting draws influences from Radiohead and Revolver and Rubber Soul-era Beatles, but with a good deal of folk and a bit of hip-hop, soul and dub thrown in for good measure.
- Hunter agreed with his own nod and took out his own revolver, a .45 caliber, long barrel, made custom by the town's gunsmith.
- He is accused of possessing a.22 double action Sentinel revolver recovered during a raid on a house in Toothill last year.
- The case - possibly the ultimate in town versus gown - revolves around a former manse on a quiet street in St Andrews, where students already occupy more than half the town centre accommodation.
- Let's assume someone is loading the revolver properly with the hammer at its half-cock position.
- They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
- How much the world revolves almost entirely around the male gaze. Times, Sunday Times
- The 660 is a short light powerful rifle not much harder to carry than a hogleg revolver. Some Odds and Ends
- On Thursday, police say, 23-year-old Wellington Oliveira talked his way into his former elementary school in a working-class western outskirt of Rio de Janeiro and opened fire with at least one of two revolvers he carried. Brazil Mourns the 12 Killed by Gunman
- But you may want to look into some long-term solution that doesn't revolve around an external fetish object such as a crystal or talisman.