Synonyms of the word revolve


REVOLVECIRCLE - CIRCULATE - DISPLACE - MOVE - ORB - ORBIT - ROLL - ROTATE - TURN

revolve

  • v. (intransitive) To orbit a central point.
  • v. To turn on an axis.
  • v. (intransitive) To recur in cycles.
  • v. (transitive) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

circle

  • n. (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a…
  • n. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a…
  • n. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
  • n. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
  • n. Orbit.
  • n. A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
  • n. (cricket) A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight…
  • n. (Wicca) A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the…
  • n. (South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.
  • n. (obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.
  • n. (astronomy) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed…
  • n. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
  • n. (logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive…
  • n. Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
  • n. A territorial division or district.
  • n. (in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
  • v. (transitive) To travel around along a curved path.
  • v. (transitive) To surround.
  • v. (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel in circles.

circulate

  • v. (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit.
  • v. (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit.
  • v. to move from person to person, as at a party.
  • v. to spread or disseminate.
  • v. to become widely known.

displace

  • v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  • v. (psycology) to repress.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

orb

  • n. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
  • n. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and…
  • n. A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body;…
  • n. (rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
  • n. (poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical.
  • n. (poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel.
  • n. (rare) A sphere of action.
  • n. A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power.
  • n. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography.
  • n. (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
  • v. (poetic) to form into an orb or circle.
  • v. (poetic, transitive) to encircle; to surround; to enclose.
  • v. (poetic, intransitive) to become round like an orb.
  • n. (architecture) A blank window or panel.

orbit

  • n. A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.
  • n. A sphere of influence; an area of control.
  • n. The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range.
  • n. (anatomy) The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.
  • n. (physics) A mathematical function that describes the wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom; area…
  • n. (mathematics) A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
  • n. (geometry, group theory) The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members…
  • v. To circle or revolve around another object.
  • v. To move around the general vicinity of something.
  • v. To place an object into an orbit around a planet.

roll

  • v. (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward…
  • v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
  • v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
  • v. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing…
  • v. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
  • v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
  • v. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
  • v. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with…
  • v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
  • v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
  • v. (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
  • v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
  • v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
  • v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  • v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one…
  • v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
  • v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
  • v. (dice games, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
  • v. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
  • v. (role-playing games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine…
  • v. (computing) To generate a random number.
  • v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare…
  • v. (transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
  • v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
  • v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
  • v. To have a rolling aspect.
  • v. (figuratively, intranstive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
  • v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
  • v. (figuratively, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
  • n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
  • n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
  • n. That which rolls; a roller.
  • n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
  • n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on…
  • n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
  • n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
  • n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  • n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
  • n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
  • n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
  • n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
  • n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
  • n. A training match for a fighting dog.

rotate

  • v. (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
  • v. (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
  • v. (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
  • v. (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
  • v. (transitive) To advance something through a sequence.
  • v. (transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older…
  • v. (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
  • adj. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

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.

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