Revolve synonyms and antonyms

rĭ-vŏlv'

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pussyfoot (related)
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spin
(Cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
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vertiginous
Inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo, dizziness or of whirling.
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worldunlike (related)
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orbit (related)
To place an object into an orbit around a planet.
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ignore (antonym)
To disregard deliberately; pay no attention to; refuse to consider
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circumvolve
To revolve
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orb
(Archaic) To encircle; enclose.
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rotate
(Intransitive) to spin, turn, or revolve.
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go around
turn on or around an axis or a center
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interface-implementation (related)
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volution
Volution is a spiral turn, or a rolling or revolving motion.
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brood over
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circle
To move around, as in a circle
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consider
The definition of consider is to decide, keep in mind, or believe as true.
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deliberate
To think or consider carefully and fully; esp., to consider reasons for and against a thing in order to make up one's mind
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devolve
(Archaic) To cause to roll onward or downward.
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twirl
Twirl is to spin around in a circle, or to twist something in your fingers, or to pitch in baseball.
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turn (related)
To become sour:
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circumgyration
Rotation, revolution
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turnstile
A similar apparatus, often coin-operated, used to admit persons one at a time
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gyrate
To move in a spiral or spirallike course.
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gyre
A spiral oceanic surface current driven primarily by the global wind system and constrained by the continents surrounding the three ocean basins (Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian). Each ocean basin has a large gyre in the subtropical region, centered around 30° north and south latitude. Smaller gyres occur at 50° north latitude in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The direction of a gyre's rotation is determined by the prevailing winds in the region, with the large subtropical gyres rotating clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
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meditate
To engage in focused thought on scriptural passages or on particular doctrines or mysteries of a religion, especially Christianity.
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ponder
To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.
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reflect
To reflect is to think deeply about an issue.
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roll
(Ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
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ruminate
To reflect on over and over again.
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swing
(Nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
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wheel
To cause to turn, revolve, or rotate
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whirl
To turn rapidly, changing direction; wheel:
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neglect (antonym)
Neglect is defined as to ignore or fail to care for someone or something or fail to do something.
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chew on
(Idiomatic) to consider, to ponder
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cogitate
To consider, to devise.
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contemplate
The definition of contemplate is to look at something, think about something or meditate about something for a long time.
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entertain
To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
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excogitate
To contrive, devise, or invent by such thought
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mull
To heat and spice something, such as wine.
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muse
Muse is defined as to have deep thoughts or to meditate.
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study
To perform a study of; investigate:
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think
To judge or regard; look upon:
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think out
To think or think about carefully and at length
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turn over
(Intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
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weigh
(Naut.) weigh anchor (see phrase under anchor)
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cudgel one's brains
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put on one's thinking cap
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think over
(Idiomatic) To ponder or reflect on a subject.
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think through
To fully consider an action, and understand all its consequences.
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rack-one-s-brain
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move (related)
To stir the emotions:
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repetition (related)
To petition again.
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thoughts (related)
To think or think about carefully and at length
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Revolve Sentence Examples

  • He did not succeed in making the wire or the magnet revolve on its own axis.

  • The first great fact to be noticed is that the planets revolve around the sun in the same direction.

  • This consists of a cast-iron pan having a shallow cylindrical bottom holding mercury, in which a wooden muller, nearly of the same shape as the inside of the pan, and armed below with several projecting blades, is made to revolve by gearing wheels.

  • Two stars are supposed to revolve about one another nearly or actually in contact.

  • Again, any plane w is the locus of a system of null-lines meeting in a point, called the null-point of c. If a plane revolve about a fixed straight line p in it, its ntill-point describes another straight line p, which is called the conjugate line of p. We have seen that the wrench may be replaced by two forces, one of which may act in any arbitrary line p. It is now evident that the second force must act in the conjugate line p, since every line meeting p, p is a null-line.

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