Revolute vs Revolutionize - What's the difference?
revolute | revolutionize |
Rolled or recurved on itself.
(botany) Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.
to roll back, curve upwards
to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt
* 1893, Daily Evening Expositor, editorial, January 28
* 1996, Lester D. Langley, The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930
* 2000, Barbara Bush, Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain 1919-1945
* 2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known
* 2004, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Unspeakable Perk
to radically or significantly change, as in a revolution
As verbs the difference between revolute and revolutionize
is that revolute is to roll back, curve upwards while revolutionize is to radically or significantly change, as in a revolution.As an adjective revolute
is rolled or recurved on itself.revolute
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
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(en-verb)Etymology 2
Verb
(en-verb)- The Hawaiians have ‘revoluted ’ and dethroned the fat squaw they have hitherto chosen to call a queen.
- 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.
- Achimota was Fraser’s life’s work, evidence that ‘the glorious West African people’ were gradually changing their conditions by ‘evolving not revoluting [sic ]’.
- I rocked and rolled. I ingested illicit substances. I revoluted .
- “Pins through scarabs,” she laughed, “while beneath you Caracuna riots and revolutes and massacres foreigners.