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单词 revolve
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revolve
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When something revolves, it turns on an axis or in an orbit around something else. People who love you probably think the world revolves around you (but really, the earth revolves around the sun).
Revolve comes from those useful Latin roots re- "again" or "back" and volvere "roll," as seen in evolution, involve, and lots of other familiar words. Picture a revolving door, and you can understand what it means to revolve, or turn in a circular motion.
WORD FAMILY
revolve: revolved, revolver, revolves, revolving+/revolver: revolvers
USAGE EXAMPLES
This season opener, “The Six Thatchers,” revolves around finding someone who, for some reason, is seeking and destroying busts of Margaret Thatcher.
New York Times(Jan 01, 2017)
The new film revolves around Reynolds’s determination to keep performing and Fisher’s equal determination to protect her mother and see her hopes fulfilled.
The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016)
The most obvious revolves around hitting and being hit.
The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016)
1v turn on or around an axis or a center
The Earth revolves around the Sun
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
go around, rotate
circumvolve, rotate
cause to turn on an axis or center
drive in, screw
cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
screw
turn like a screw
wheel, wheel around
change directions as if revolving on a pivot
gyrate, reel, spin, spin around, whirl
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
swirl, twiddle, twirl, whirl
turn in a twisting or spinning motion
screw up
screw or turn higher
cartwheel
do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet
whirligig
whirl or spin like a whirligig
turn
move around an axis or a center
2v move in an orbit
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
orb, orbit
retrograde
move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
circle, circulate
move in circles
3v cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
roll
roll, turn over
move by turning over or rotating
transit
revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
displace, move
cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
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