| VERB | motion | revolve, go around, rotate | turn on or around an axis or a center |
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| motion | revolve, orb, orbit | move in an orbit | |
| motion | revolve, roll | cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis |
| Sounds | riyvaa'lv | |
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| Rhymes | absolve ... solve: 8 rhymes with aalv... | |
| Meaning | turn on or around an axis or a center. | |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP | |
| Example | "The Earth revolves around the Sun" | |
| Synonyms | go around, rotate | |
| Caused by | rotate, circumvolve | Cause to turn on an axis or center |
| Narrower | screw, drive in | Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion |
| screw | Turn like a screw | |
| spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate | revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | |
| twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl | Turn in a twisting or spinning motion | |
| wheel, wheel around | change directions as if revolving on a pivot | |
| Broader | turn | Move around an axis or a center |
| See also | revolve around | center upon |
| Similar to | rotate, circumvolve | Cause to turn on an axis or center |
| Catalan | girar, regirar, rodar, voltar | |
| Spanish | revolver, rodar | |
| Nouns | revolution | a single complete turn (axial or orbital) |
| Meaning | Move in an orbit. | |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | orb, orbit | |
| Narrower | retrograde | Move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies |
| Broader | circle, circulate | Move in circles |
| Catalan | girar | |
| Spanish | girar | |
| Nouns | revolution | a single complete turn (axial or orbital) |
| Meaning | Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | roll | |
| Narrower | transit | revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction |
| Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
| Similar to | roll, turn over | Move by turning over or rotating |