Circulate vs Revolve - What's the difference?
circulate | revolve |
to move in circles or through a circuit
to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit
to move from person to person, as at a party
to spread or disseminate
to become widely known
(label) To orbit a central point.
To turn on an axis.
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(label) To recur in cycles.
(label) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', Bk.2, Ch.6, ''Monk Samson :
As verbs the difference between circulate and revolve
is that circulate is to move in circles or through a circuit while revolve is (label) to orbit a central point.circulate
English
Verb
(circulat)- to circulate money or gossip
Synonyms
* put about * spread * disseminateExternal links
* * ----revolve
English
Verb
- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve . There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.
