different between recurve vs revolute

English

Etymology

re- +? curve

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k??(?)v/

Noun

recurve (countable and uncountable, plural recurves)

1. A type of knife blade shape that involves several curves including a concave curve on a portion of the edge, resulting in a belly that is lower than the handle bottom.

Verb

recurve (third-person singular simple present recurves, present participle recurving, simple past and past participle recurved)

1. To curve again, to rebend.
2. To curve back on itself.
3. (of a storm) To change direction.

Derived terms

• recurve bow

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

recurve

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of recurvar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of recurvar
3. third-person singular imperative of recurvar

Spanish

Verb

recurve

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of recurvar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of recurvar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of recurvar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of recurvar.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin revol?tus, perfect passive participle of revolv? (“roll back”).

Adjective

revolute (not comparable)

1. Rolled or recurved on itself.
2. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.

Translations

Verb

revolute (third-person singular simple present revolutes, present participle revoluting, simple past and past participle revoluted)

1. to roll back, curve upwards

Etymology 2

Back-formation from revolution.

Verb

revolute (third-person singular simple present revolutes, present participle revoluting, simple past and past participle revoluted)

1. to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt
   • 1893, Daily Evening Expositor, editorial, January 28

     The Hawaiians have ‘revoluted’ and dethroned the fat squaw they have hitherto chosen to call a queen.

   • 1996, Lester D. Langley, The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930

     Christmas always thought himself a “patriotic American,” but, as he saw the matter, a little “revoluting” on behalf of his benefactors—Manuel Bonilla and Estrada Cabrera—in no sense harmed the interestes of the United States.

   • 2000, Barbara Bush, Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain 1919-1945

     Achimota was Fraser’s life’s work, evidence that ‘the glorious West African people’ were gradually changing their conditions by ‘evolving not revoluting [sic]’.

   • 2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known

     I rocked and rolled. I ingested illicit substances. I revoluted.

   • 2004, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Unspeakable Perk

     “Pins through scarabs,” she laughed, “while beneath you Caracuna riots and revolutes and massacres foreigners.

Anagrams

• Truelove, true love, truelove

Italian

Adjective

revolute

1. feminine plural of revoluto

Latin

Participle

revol?te

1. vocative masculine singular of revol?tus