Synonyms for revolve
rɪˈvɒlvre·volve

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1. revolve

   Any round body rolls which continuously touches with successive portions of its surface successive portions of another surface; a wagon-wheel rolls along the ground. To rotate is said of a body that has a circular motion about its own center or axis; to revolve is said of a body that moves in a curving path, as a circle or an ellipse, about a center outside of itself, so as to return periodically to the same relative position that it held at some previous time. A revolving body may also either rotate or roll at the same time; the earth revolves around the sun, and rotates on its own axis; in popular usage, the earth is often said to revolve about its own axis, or to have a daily "revolution," but rotate and "rotation" are the more accurate terms. A cylinder over which an endless belt is drawn is said to roll as regards the belt, tho it rotates as regards its own axis. Any object that is in contact with or connected with a rolling body is often said to roll; as, the car rolls smoothly along the track. Objects whose motion approximates or suggests a rotary motion along a supporting surface are also said to roll; as, ocean waves roll in upon the shore, or the ship rolls in the trough of the sea. Turn is a conversational and popular word often used vaguely for rotate or revolve, or for any motion about a fixed point, especially for a motion less than a complete "rotation" or "revolution;" a man turns his head or turns on his heel; the gate turns on its hinges.

   Synonyms:
   roll, rotate, turn

   Antonyms:
   bind, chafe, grind, slide, slip, stand, stick

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1. revolve

   Synonyms:
   contemplate, turn, consider, weigh, ponder, examine, wheel, rotate, circulate

   Antonyms:
   discard, disregard, dismiss, misconsider

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1. revolve, go around, rotateverb

   turn on or around an axis or a center

   "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"

   Synonyms:
   splay, go around, short-circuit, orb, turn out, circumvolve, roll, bypass, outflank, rotate, circulate, spread, orbit, spread out, get around

2. orb, orbit, revolveverb

   move in an orbit

   "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"

   Synonyms:
   go around, orb, roll, orbit, rotate

3. roll, revolveverb

   cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis

   "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"

   Synonyms:
   wave, wrap, rove, hustle, range, rotate, turn over, wheel, ramble, cast, pluck, wind, roll up, flap, swan, roll, wander, stray, roam, drift, roll out, seethe, go around, orbit, orb, twine, tramp, vagabond, undulate

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1. revolveverb

   Synonyms:
   rotate, wheel, turn, whirl, circulate, roll, gyrate, go round, turn round

2. revolveverb

   Synonyms:
   consider, meditate, ponder, study, reflect upon, ruminate upon, brood over

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1. revolveverb

   Synonyms:
   rotate, spin, gyrate, turn, devolve, brood over, ruminate, ponder, consider

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1. List of paraphrases for "revolve":

   rotate, spin

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1. Albert P. Ryder:

   Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.

2. Alan Ruskin:

   The most sensitive comments will revolve around whether Powell is willing to reaffirm a view that the easing cycle is a 'mid-cycle adjustment' or align more closely to market thinking, if he sticks to the old language as is most likely, it would affirm that he is still confident that the strength of consumption, in combination with modest Fed easing, will be sufficient to keep the recovery broadly on track.

3. Marc Chagall:

   Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

4. Brett Bawcum:

   Honestly it's as deep of a social ritual as you will find anywhere, there are lives that revolve around it.

5. John Kelly:

   When world leaders come in -- you know Bibi Netanyahu who was here and who's under investigation himself -- and it's like you walk in and you know the first couple of minutes of every conversation might revolve around that kind of thing.