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单词 circumvolve
释义

circumvolvev.

/səːkəmˈvɒlv/
Etymology: < Latin circumvolvĕre to roll round (transitive).
Now rare.
1. transitive.
a. To turn, roll, or whirl (a thing) round on its axis or centre.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)]
turnOE
trillc1386
gyrec1420
rote?1533
tirl1543
to turn round1555
revolve1559
circumvert1578
circumgyre1635
circumrote1635
circumgyrate1647
circumvolve1647
veera1649
twist1769
rotate1777
sphere1820
1647 R. Herrick Upon Mr. Fletcher's Plays Whene'ere we circumvolve our eyes.
1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica i. i. § i. ii. 6 The whole Sphere being circumvolved once every day.
1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis 199 I had frequently seen machines similarly circumvolved.
b. To turn or move (a thing) round in a circular path. rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > cause to move in circle or curve [verb (transitive)] > move in circle round something > cause to move in circle
rounda1460
circumvolve1610
orb1641
sphere1648
circumagitate1660
circumact1667
1610 Histrio-mastix i. 230 The flye..Shall sundry times be circumvolv'd about.
1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 173 Planets, and moons..circumvolved Each round the other.
2. intransitive.
a. To turn round or revolve on an axis or centre; to rotate; also figurative of time, etc.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)]
wharvec888
turnOE
runOE
to turn aboutOE
to turn roundc1450
to go roundc1460
revolute1553
gyre1598
veer1605
to come about1607
circumvolve1626
circumgyre1634
to turn around1642
roll1646
revolve1660
circulate1672
twist1680
circumgyrate1683
rotate1757
gyrate1830
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 202 To make dayes, and tymes, still to circumvolue.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. i. v. 33 The Terraqueous Globe..which circumvolves at the rate of above 1000 Miles an Hour.
1791 E. Darwin Loves of Plants ii. 104 And slowly circumvolves the labouring wheel below.
b. To revolve in a circular path or orbit. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > move in a circle or curve [verb (intransitive)] > move in a circle
to go aboutOE
whirlc1290
circule1430
circlec1440
to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500
circuit1611
circumgyre1634
revolve1660
circulate1672
orba1821
circumvolve1841
to loop the loop1902
orbit1948
1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. ii. 53 [Sparks] expire gracefully circumvolving.
1858 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 194 Round whom everybody else is perpetually circumvolving.
3. To wind, fold, wrap, or twist round:
a. a string, a cloth, etc., round something.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > by winding or folding something round > wind so as to wrap
wind1303
servea1586
circumvolve1599
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 7/1 Madefy certayn cloutes..and circumvolve the same rounde aboute his heade.
1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery v. 333 Circumvolving or wrapping the Base of it..round the..Cylinder.
b. something (e.g. the body) with a string, a cloth, or the like: to enwrap, envelop, involve, encompass. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (intransitive)]
circumvolve1607
wrap1608
wrapper1885
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)]
bewindOE
writheOE
windc1175
bewrap?c1225
lapa1300
umbelaya1300
umbeweave1338
wlappec1380
enwrapa1382
wrapa1382
inlap1382
envelop1386
forwrapc1386
hapc1390
umbeclapa1400
umbethonrea1400
umblaya1400
wapc1420
biwlappea1425
revolve?a1425
to roll up?a1425
roll?c1425
to roll ina1475
wimple1513
to wind up?1533
invest1548
circumvolve1607
awrap1609
weave1620
sheet1621
obvolve1623
embowdle1625
amict1657
wry1674
woold1775
overwrap1815
wrapper1885
wrapper1905
weve-
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium
belapc1175
take?a1300
wrapa1382
environa1393
enumberc1400
involvea1420
enfoldc1425
bewrapa1430
mantlec1450
envelop1474
enwrap1545
imply1590
circumvolve1607
circumfuse1608
becloaka1618
swathe1624
gird1645
wrap1656
velope1722
steep1798
bathe1816
cloak1818
impall1852
atmosphere1881
kirtle1888
1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. H3 Doe seruile clowdes,..Our glorious body circumvolue?
1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) iv. sig. I2v O were my body circumuolu'd within that cloude.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 61 Abundance of..Cypresse-trees, circumuoluing the Towne.
absolute.1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. F3v Of blackest silk, a curious twist; Which, circumvolving gently, there Enthrall'd her Arme.1704 A. van Leeuwenhoek Let. 22 July in Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) (1705) 24 1727 The Fibrous Substance which here does first circumvolve from the Middle Point.figurative.a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea iii. i, in Wks. (1874) VI. 401 With..heart circumvolved in woe.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cclxxv, in Poems (1878) III. 205 An abhorr'd Stupor doth Circumvolue vs.1824 H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots 61 When dangers circumvolved my Bothwell round.

Derivatives

circumvolved adj.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > enfolding or enveloping
folden1435
folded1570
involving1611
investing1615
circumvolving1638
obsident1644
circumvolved1668
enfolding1669
investient1695
shrining1826
enveloping1828
enwrapping1850
scarfing1897
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xix. 51 Between the proper Membrane of the Bladder, and its circumvolved Muscle.
circumvolving adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > enfolding or enveloping
folden1435
folded1570
involving1611
investing1615
circumvolving1638
obsident1644
circumvolved1668
enfolding1669
investient1695
shrining1826
enveloping1828
enwrapping1850
scarfing1897
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 163 The circumvolving Wildernesse.
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