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▪ I. revolving, vbl. n.|rɪˈvɒlvɪŋ|
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The action of the verb, in various senses.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. ix. (Skeat) l. 158 These transitory tymes that maketh revolving of your yeres thus stondmele. 1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) 28 Processe of yeares, revolvynge of season, Bryngeth all these soone in oblyvyon. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 106 They were greatly gyuen to..continuall reuoluinge of dyuers autours. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 37 In my small revolving of Authors I find as high examples of vertue in Women as in Men. 1670Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 145 Without..many unnecessary revolvings which men of sharp and pregnant parts stand in no need of. 1867Longfellow Dante, Par. xiv. 24 The holy circles a new joy displayed In their revolving.
▪ II. revolving, ppl. a.|rɪˈvɒlvɪŋ|
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Turning round; making revolutions; rotating: a. poet. Of time or seasons, or with reference to these.
1697Dryden æneid i. 386 An age is rip'ning in revolving fate, When Troy shall overturn the Grecian state. 1704Watts in Sc. Paraph., Hymns iv. 2 The revolving skies had brought the third, th' appointed day. 1738Wesley We lift our Hearts to Thee v, And live this short revolving Day As if it were our last. 1781Cowper Heroism 25 Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. 1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. 152 For three revolving autumns. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid i. 269 Thrice ten glorious years of revolving months.
b. Of moving bodies, etc.
1715tr. Gregory's Astron. (1726) II. 475 The point D (the Place of the Body describing the revolving Orbit). 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Center, That point to which a revolving planet, or comet, is impelled. 1812–16Playfair Nat. Phil. (1819) II. 235 The velocity of the falling body at L, as well as of the revolving body at P. 1822Shelley tr. Calderon's Mag. Prodig. iii. 68 Thou Who gazest..On the sun's revolving splendour! 1867J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. 275 This little cell so well known to the older observers as the globe-animalcule or revolving-cell.
c. Of mechanical apparatus or parts of machinery; (cf. Knight Dict. Mech.); also spec. of an article of furniture or other simple mechanical construction, as revolving door, etc.
1814Scott Diary 29 July in Lockhart, It [a beacon-grate] is to be abolished for an oil revolving-light. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxiii, He usually carried a brace of revolving pistols.., with seven barrels a-piece. 1866Geo. Eliot Let. 4 Aug. (1956) IV. 294 Col. Hamley's volume..lies now on my revolving desk as one of the books I mean first to read. 1883Heal & Son Catal.: Bedsteads & Furnit. 185/3 Mahogany, Walnut, or Oak Revolving Chair. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 60 A revolving wheel cutter for cushion or round shapes. 1892G. Meredith Let. 25 Sept. (1970) II. 1101 Will..says that he and his Daisy had thoughts of a revolving book-case. 1907St. Nicholas Oct. 1104/2 It was his stated duty to attend one of the big revolving doors that opened upon the main street. 1912G. B. Shaw Let. 27 Oct. in B. Shaw & Mrs. Campbell (1952) 51 Revolving stages present no difficulty... They are made in Germany. 1936A. Thirkell August Folly vi. 175 We put the white wine in the revolving bookcase. 1966J. Gloag Social Hist. Furnit. Design vii. 185 A late eighteenth century revolving bookcase in three tiers on a pillar and claw base. 1974‘E. Lathen’ Sweet & Low ii. 23 Appeals for..a revolving stage at the repertory theater. 1977New Yorker 9 May 35/1 They were not completely comfortable with escalators and revolving doors. 1980L. Lewis Private Life of Country House ii. 19 A revolving bookcase which must not be twirled round at speed because the books fell out.
d. Econ. Applied to credit, etc., available in return for smaller regular repayments (see also quot. 1919). revolving fund, a fund that is continually replenished as it is drawn upon.
1919W. Thomson Dict. Banking (ed. 2) 564/2 Revolving credit, a credit opened with a bank by an importer in order to enable an exporter to obtain payment for goods when ready for shipment. 1928Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inquiry) ii. ix. 101 The Local Loans Fund is a revolving fund vested in the National Debt Commissioners. 1962Economist 16 June 1116/2 A ‘revolving fund’ is to aid the export industries. 1970Washington Post 30 Sept. b13/4 (Advt.), Let Sears clean all your draperies—expert cleaning, prompt service! Charge it on your Sears revolving charge. 1972Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 17 Midland Bank yesterday became the first of the big clearing banks to introduce a permanently revolving credit scheme for private customers. 1977Time 28 Feb. 40/2 A department store, for example, must inform buyers that the interest charge of 1½% a month on the unpaid balance in a revolving-credit account amounts to 18% a year. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Apr. 303/2 The Architectural Heritage Fund describes the work of this revolving fund which makes low interest loans to building preservation trusts.
Hence reˈvolvingly adv.
1611Cotgr., Periodiquement,..reuoluingly, by course or fits, or with a continuall, and interchanged course.
▸ revolving door n. (b) fig. a situation in which the same events, problems, or people recur in a continuous cycle, typically without ever being satisfactorily dealt with; freq. attrib.
1914Atlanta Constit. 6 Nov. 6/5 Felix Diaz is our idea of a man who wants somebody else to push the *revolving door of revolution around for him. 1943Marriage & Family Living 5 70/1 She receives exhaustive medical and psychiatric treatment as well as vocational guidance in an effort to reduce ‘revolving door’ failures. 1970Jrnl. Health & Social Behavior 11 80/1 The decreased hospitalization time but increased rehospitalization of patients, resulting in a classic revolving door situation. 2003Washington Post (Home ed.) 2 Mar. d15/4 He could provide some stability at kicker, a position that has been a revolving door for years. |