different between revolve vs revolution

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Late Latin revol?ti?nem, accusative singular of revol?ti? (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolv? (“roll back, revolve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v??l(j)u???n/
• Rhymes: -u???n
• Hyphenation: re?vo?lu?tion

Noun

revolution (countable and uncountable, plural revolutions)

1. A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
2. The removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
3. Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
   • 1912, P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control, The Horseless Age Co. (1913), page 147:

     The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc.

   • 1864, D. M. Warren, The Common-School Geography, Revised Edition, H. Cowperthwait & Co., page 6:

     The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis, and a yearly course around the sun.

   • 1878, George Fleming, A Text-Book of Veterinary Obstetrics, Baillière, Tindall, & Cox, page 123:

     Numerous cases are recorded which incontestibly prove that during pregnancy, the uterus perform a half or even a complete revolution, on itself, producing torsion of the cervix […]

4. In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
5. A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
6. A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
7. Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.

Usage notes

• Astronomers today do not use revolution to refer to the turning of an object about an axis: they use rotation for that, and revolution only for the traversal of a body through an orbit (which also happens around some axis). (This may be somewhat customary, however, strictly speaking, using either word for either process would not be incorrect.)

Antonyms

• (sudden, vast change): evolution

Derived terms

• Revolution
• revolutionary
• revolutionize

Compounds

• agricultural revolution
• French Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• information revolution
• palace revolution
• Russian Revolution
• solid of revolution

Related terms

• revolve

Translations

Further reading

• "revolution" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 270.

Danish

Etymology

From French révolution.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?volusjo?n/, [??volu??o??n]

Noun

revolution c (singular definite revolutionen, plural indefinite revolutioner)

1. revolution (political upheaval)
2. revolution (removal and replacement of a government)
3. revolution (sudden, vast change in a situation or discipline)

Inflection

Derived terms

• revolutionere
• revolutionær

Further reading

• revolution on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /revolu?t?sjon/

Noun

revolution (plural revolutiones)

1. revolution

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?v?l???u?n/

Noun

revolution c

1. a revolution (upheaval, replacement of government, sudden change)

Declension

Related terms

• revolt
• revoltera
• revolutionsgardist