revolving

Speech parts

1. revolving - Noun

2. revolving - Adjective

3. revolving - Verb

Meaning

of Revolve

Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rotary wheeling around turn revolution travel round returning circle rotation turning roll spin orbital rolling
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Antonyms

still remain remaining holding stay stand
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Phrases with the word

revolving nutation revolving table revolving wheel revolving tray revolving doors revolving around

Examples

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei

Winter is come and gone,But grief returns with the revolving year. Percy Bysshe Shelley

- Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams. Czesław Miłosz

I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door. J. Michael Straczynski

A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. John Dryden

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. Albert Camus

Close letter words and terms

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