different between obit vs revolve

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from ob?re (“to go down, to die”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??b?t/, /???b?t/

Noun

obit (plural obits)

1. (archaic) Death of a person. [14th-17th c.]
2. (Christianity, historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. [from 14th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 582:

     Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.

3. A record of a person's death. [from 15th c.]

Etymology 2

Shortened from obituary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???b?t/, /??b?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

obit (plural obits)

1. (colloquial) An obituary.

Anagrams

• B. I. O. T., biot

French

Etymology

Latin obitus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.bit/

Noun

obit m (plural obits)

1. (archaic) death

Related terms

• obituaire

Further reading

• “obit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

obit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of obe?

English

Etymology

From Middle English revolven (“to change direction”), borrowed from Old French revolver (“to reflect upon”), from Latin revolvere, present active infinitive of revolv? (“turn over, roll back, reflect upon”), from re- (“back”) + volv? (“roll”); see voluble, volve.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v?lv/

Verb

revolve (third-person singular simple present revolves, present participle revolving, simple past and past participle revolved)

1. (Physical movement.)
   1. (transitive, now rare) To bring back into a particular place or condition; to restore. [from 15th c.]
   2. (transitive) To cause (something) to turn around a central point. [from 16th c.]
   3. (intransitive) To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body). [from 17th c.]

   4. (intransitive) To rotate around an axis. [from 17th c.]
   5. (intransitive) To move in order or sequence. [from 17th c.]

2. (Mental activity.)
   1. (transitive, now rare) To ponder on; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of. [from 15th c.]
      • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 82:

        These are the difficulties which arise to me on revolving this scheme […].

      • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Bk.2, Ch.6, Monk Samson:

        He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.

   2. (transitive, obsolete) To read through, to study (a book, author etc.). [15th–19th c.]
      • 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regain'd:

        This having heard, strait I again revolv’d / The Law and Prophets.

Related terms

• revolution
• revolver
• the world doesn't revolve around you

Translations

Further reading

• revolve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• revolve in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Noun

revolve (plural revolves)

1. (theater) The rotation of part of the scenery within a theatrical production.
2. (theater) The rotating section itself.
   • 2003, Gary Philip Cohen, The Community Theater Handbook (page 134)

     […] a revolving stage, two-level platforms stage left and stage right, and a large bridge that connected the platforms midstage, twelve feet up off the revolve.

3. (obsolete) A radical change; revolution.

Anagrams

• evolver

Latin

Verb

revolve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of revolv?

Portuguese

Verb

revolve

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of revolver
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of revolver