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revolvingre‧volv‧ing /rɪˈvɒlvɪŋ $ -ˈvɑːl-/ adjective - A revolving door led into the hotel lobby.
- The 28-story building is topped by a revolving restaurant that offers ever-changing views of the city.
- The lead dancer appeared on a revolving pedestal.
- A small revolving brush on the front was sweeping dust into a slot.
- In the meantime, just look at those gigantic revolving blue lights!
- Only slowly revolving tyres will contact the road for long enough to generate sufficient drive.
- Two strips of waste wood were slowly fed over the revolving cutter and cramped to the table.
turning with a circular movement► revolving designed to turn with a circular movement: · A revolving door led into the hotel lobby.· The 28-story building is topped by a revolving restaurant that offers ever-changing views of the city. ► rotating able to turn with a circular movement - use this especially in technical contexts: · The plastic is cut by a rotating disc.· The stones are polished in a rotating drum full of abrasive powder. NOUN► credit· Proceeds will be used primarily to repay revolving credit borrowings, to finance new store openings and for working capital.· And the whole point of credit cards and other forms of revolving credit is that they don't come to an end.· We think it important that such a tabulation should include all types of revolving credit, as well as fixed-sum instalment credit. ► door· The revolving door has begun to rotate.· The secret is to outlaw the revolving door.· It is less the revolving door that the temptation placed in the paths of hitherto ethical men and women that he criticises.· Crowds of men and women were swarming up the front steps to the three revolving doors.· The revolving door between government and think-tanks is well-established.· He remembered the hiss of those wings, the lick and swish of revolving doors, the warble of phones.· After which the losers in the employment lottery would be popped into the revolving door.· In short, they are seriously at risk of committing further offences and becoming trapped in the revolving door of custody. a revolving object is designed so that it turns with a circular movement: The theatre has a revolving stage. |