Revolver vs Revolves - What's the difference?
revolver | revolves |
A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
Agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.
(revolve)
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(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 :
As a noun revolver
is a handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.As a verb revolves is
third-person singular of revolve.revolver
English
(wikipedia revolver)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* wheelgunHyponyms
* six-gun * six-shooterrevolves
English
Verb
(head)revolve
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Verb
- 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.