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How to pronounce revolve in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms roll
Type of displace, move
Has types transit
Verb group turn over, roll
Type Words
Synonyms go around, rotate
Type of turn
Has types swirl, whirl, drive in, gyrate, reel, screw, spin, spin around, wheel around, twiddle, twirl, wheel
Verb group rotate, circumvolve
Derivation revolution


The Earth revolves around the Sun.
Type Words
Synonyms orb, orbit
Type of circle
Has types retrograde
Derivation revolution

Examples of revolve

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These changes indicate that the stars revolve around each other every 8.8 hours.
From the sciencedaily.com
Not all the discussions revolve other countries buying American weapons systems.
From the edition.cnn.com
The most prominent revolve around the federal government's $13 trillion in debt.
From the businessweek.com
He loves anecdotes, which usually revolve around him and contain minor untruths.
From the abcnews.go.com
A pair of the network's upcoming reality series will revolve around celebrities.
From the latimes.com
The play within a play will revolve around the Freebes, a Pleasant Grove family.
From the sltrib.com
The important issues now, though, revolve around risk, stability and incentives.
From the economist.com
You were simply told that your world will have to revolve around something else.
From the washingtonpost.com
Smaller players whose games revolve around quickness usually display that early.
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More examples
  • 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"
  • Orb: move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"
  • Roll: 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"
  • (revolved) rotated: turned in a circle around an axis
  • Revolve, the band's seventh studio album, marks the return of lead vocalist Ted Poley. It is also the first Danger Danger studio album to feature Rob Marcello on guitar.
  • A turn is a unit of plane angle measurement equal to 2u03C0 radians, 360u00B0 or 400 gon. A turn is also referred to as a revolution or complete rotation or full circle or cycle or rev or rot.
  • To orbit a central point; To turn on an axis; To recur in cycles; To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of
  • (REVOLVING) Going in circles, not making progress / Coming full circle, completing a cycle
  • (Revolving) An irrevocable letter issued for a specific amount; renews itself for the same amount over a given period.