| Main Entry: | revolve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | turn, circle |
Synonyms: |
circumduct, go around, gyrate, gyre, orbit, roll, rotate, spin, turn around, twist, wheel, whirl |
| Notes: | revolve and rotate are synonyms in everyday writing, but not in scientific/technical writing: the Earth revolves around the Sun and rotates upon its axis |
| Main Entry: | revolve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about |
Synonyms: |
consider, deliberate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, roll, ruminate, study, think over, turn over in mind |
Antonyms: |
ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | revolving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotating |
Synonyms: |
circling, circulating, encircling, gyrating, orbiting, pirouetting, reeling, rolling, spinning, swirling, turning, twirling, whirling |
| Main Entry: | revolving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | capable of rotating |
Synonyms: |
circumgyratory, circumrotatory, circumvolutory, gyral, gyrational, gyratory, rotary, rotational, rotative, rotatory, trochilic, veriginous, vortical, vorticose, whirling |
| Main Entry: | revolving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | circling |
Synonyms: |
gyral, gyrating, gyratory, rotaryrotatory, vertiginous, whirling |
| Main Entry: | bowl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | roll a ball down a lane |
Synonyms: |
fling, hurl, pitch, play duckpins, play tenpins, revolve, rotate, spin, throw, trundle, whirl |
| Main Entry: | circle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go around, circumnavigate |
Synonyms: |
begird, belt, cincture, circuit, circulate, circumduct, circumscribe, coil, compass, curve, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, ensphere, envelop, gird, girdle, gyrate, gyre, hem in, loop, mill around, pivot, revolve, ring, roll, rotate, round, spiral, surround, tour, wheel, whirl, wind about |
| Main Entry: | circulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flow |
Synonyms: |
actuate, circle, fly about, get about, get around, go about, gyrate, mill around, mobilize, move around, radiate, revolve, rotate, set off, travel, wander |
Antonyms: |
block |
| Main Entry: | consider |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | turn over in one's mind |
Synonyms: |
acknowledge, allow for, assent to, chew over, cogitate, concede, consult, contemplate, deal with, deliberate, dream of, envisage, examine, excogitate, favor, flirt with, grant, inspect, keep in mind, look at, meditate, mull over, muse, perpend, ponder, provide for, reason, reckon with, recognize, reflect, regard, revolve, ruminate, scan, scrutinize, see, see about, speculate, study, subscribe to, take into account, take under advisement, take up, think out, think over, toss around |
Antonyms: |
discard, dismiss, forget, ignore, neglect, reject |
| Main Entry: | deliberate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about seriously; discuss |
Synonyms: |
argue, bat it around, cerebrate, chew over, cogitate, consider, consult, contemplate, debate, excogitate, hammer away at, judge, kick around, knock around, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, pour it on, put on thinking cap, rack brains, reason, reflect, revolve, roll, ruminate, run up a flagpole, speculate, stew over, study, sweat over, talk over, turn over, weigh |