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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.
- 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.
- The moon revolves around the Earth.
- And so he had grown in the warmth of his parents 'love, trained in what we call outdoor sports, but which are life itself to the Arab, until at fourteen no one could surpass him in running or horsemanship or spear-throwing, whilst with rifle or revolver he could clip the hair off the top of a man's head, the which strenuous accomplishments he balanced in passing his leisure moments in the gentle arts of verse-making and even music, in spite of the latter being condemned by religion; also did he learn to converse in foreign tongues. Desert Love