Revolution vs Riot - What's the difference?
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A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.
The removal and replacement of a government.
Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.
* 1912 , P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control , The Horseless Age Co. (1913),
A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.
* 1864 , D. M. Warren, The Common-School Geography , Revised Edition, H. Cowperthwait & Co.,
* 1878 , George Fleming, A Text-Book of Veterinary Obstetrics , Baillière, Tindall, & Cox,
In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
* Shakespeare
The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
* Chaucer
* Alexander Pope
To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
(obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, etc.
* Daniel
* Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between revolution and riot
is that revolution is revolution while riot is wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.As a verb riot is
to create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.revolution
English
(wikipedia revolution)Noun
(en noun)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.
page 6:
- The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis , and a yearly course around the sun.
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
Usage notes
* Astronomers today do not use (term) to refer to the turning of an object about an axis: they use (rotation) for that, and (term) 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
* evolutionDerived terms
* revolutionary * revolutionize Compounds * agricultural revolution * artistic revolution * French Revolution * Industrial Revolution * solid of revolution * information revolutionriot
English
(wikipedia riot)Noun
(en noun)- His headstrong riot hath no curb.
- Venus loveth riot and dispense.
- the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day
Derived terms
* rioter * run riotVerb
(en verb)- The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.
- Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
- No pulse that riots , and no blood that glows.