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Revolve vs Revolving - What's the difference?

revolve | revolving |

As verbs the difference between revolve and revolving

is that revolve is to orbit a central point while revolving is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun revolving is

the act of something that revolves or turns.

revolve

English

Verb

  • (label) To orbit a central point.
  • To turn on an axis.
  • *
    • 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.
  • (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 :
    • He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.

    Related terms

    * revolution * revolver * the world doesn't revolve around you

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    revolving

    English

    Verb

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    • 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.