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Revolving vs Surrounding - What's the difference?

revolving | surrounding |

As verbs the difference between revolving and surrounding

is that revolving is while surrounding is .

As nouns the difference between revolving and surrounding

is that revolving is the act of something that revolves or turns while surrounding is outlaying area; area in proximity to something.

As an adjective surrounding is

which surrounds something.

revolving

English

Verb

(head)

    • 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.

    surrounding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • outlaying area; area in proximity to something
  • environment

    • Synonyms

    * periphery

    Adjective

    (-)
  • which surrounds something