Revolve vs Revolving - What's the difference?
revolve | revolving |
(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 :
The act of something that revolves or turns.
* 1867 , Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life (page 245)
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
- 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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* ----revolving
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.