Revolves Synonyms and Antonyms

Turn on or around an axis or a center
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rotates
  2. turns
  3. orbits
  4. spins
  5. wheels
  6. twirls
  7. whirls
  8. gyrates
  9. swings
  10. ruminates
  11. rolls
  12. reflects
  13. ponders
  14. circles
  15. meditates
  16. devolves
  17. deliberates
  18. considers
Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rolls
To turn on an axis; rotate.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. turns

Revolves Sentence Examples

  • As the machine is drawn forward the disk revolves and cuts deeply into the ground, and by reason of its inclination crowds the earth outwards and thus turns a furrow.

  • The origin of co-ordinates 0 corresponds to v = 0; and the asymptotic points J, J', round which the curve revolves in an ever-closing spiral, correspond to v= =co .

  • Earlier still the sun must have reached to where Neptune now revolves on the confines of our system, but the mass of the sun could not undergo an expansion so prodigious without being made vastly more rarefied than at present, and hence we are led by this mode of reasoning to the conception of the primaeval nebula from which our system has originated.

  • They are weighed and then dumped into a washing machine, consisting of a large horizontal cage, submerged in water, in which revolves a horizontal shaft carrying arms. The arms are set in a spiral form, so that in revolving they not only stir the roots, causing them to rub against each other, but also force them forward from the receiving end,of the cage to the other end.

  • The explanation of these recurring phenomena is that a great cloud or distended stream of meteors revolves around the sun in a period of 331years, and that one portion of the elliptical orbit intersects that of the earth.

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