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revolute
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin revol?tus, perfect passive participle of revolv? (“roll back”).
Adjective
revolute (not comparable)
- Rolled or recurved on itself.
- (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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 1893, Daily Evening Expositor, editorial, January 28
Anagrams
- Truelove, true love, truelove
Italian
Adjective
revolute
- feminine plural of revoluto
Latin
Participle
revol?te
- vocative masculine singular of revol?tus
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revolving
English
Adjective
revolving (not comparable)
- moving around a central point.
- (finance) Relating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card.
Translations
Verb
revolving
- present participle of revolve
Noun
revolving (plural revolvings)
- The act of something that revolves or turns.
- 1867, Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life (page 245)
- The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.
- 1867, Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life (page 245)
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