Synonyms of the word revolution


REVOLUTIONALTERATION - CHANGE - GYRATION - MODIFICATION - ROTATION - TURN - TURNING

revolution

  • n. A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.
  • n. The removal and replacement of a government.
  • n. Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.
  • n. A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.
  • n. In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
  • n. A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

alteration

  • n. The act of altering or making different.
  • n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

gyration

  • n. The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an…
  • n. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
  • n. Appropriate arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex.

modification

  • n. the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.
  • n. an alteration or adjustment to something.
  • n. a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
  • n. (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
  • n. (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in…

rotation

  • n. (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
  • n. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
  • n. A regular variation in a sequence.
  • n. (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least…
  • n. (baseball) The set of starting of a team.
  • n. (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the…
  • n. Repeated play on a radio station, etc.

turn

  • v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
  • v. (archaic) To translate.
  • n. A change of direction or orientation.
  • n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
  • n. A single loop of a coil.
  • n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  • n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
  • n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
  • n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
  • n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
  • n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
  • n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
  • n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
  • n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. A deed done to another.
  • n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
  • n. Character; personality; nature.
  • n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

turning

  • n. (Britain) A turn or deviation from a straight course.
  • n. (field hockey) At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their…
  • n. The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.
  • n. The act of turning.
  • n. (plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
  • v. present participle of turn.

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