Revolve vs Circumvolve - What's the difference?
revolve | circumvolve |
(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 :
To revolve or move about.
To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.
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In transitive terms the difference between revolve and circumvolve
is that revolve is to ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of while circumvolve is to roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.As verbs the difference between revolve and circumvolve
is that revolve is to orbit a central point while circumvolve is to revolve or move about.revolve
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- 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.
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