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Revolute vs Revolving - What's the difference?

revolute | revolving |

As verbs the difference between revolute and revolving

is that revolute is to roll back, curve upwards while revolving is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective revolute

is rolled or recurved on itself.

As a noun revolving is

the act of something that revolves or turns.

revolute

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Adjective

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

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to roll back, curve upwards

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • 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

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    revolving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.