revolving

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adj 2noun 2

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ADJ.

artificial, broken, close, fiery, heavenly, larger, scared, small

VERB + REVOLVING

skiing, slam, stop, store, twin, walked

REVOLVING + NOUN

door, doors, earth, ones, planet, sun

PREP.

about, around, in, into, through

ADV.

such

Definitions

adj

moving around a central point.

Relating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card.

noun

The act of something that revolves or turns.

The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.

The process where you either take an non-closing linear shape or a 2D shape, take a 3D axis as the pivot, and basically revolve the linear shape around the axis to get a 3D object. (e.g. taking a 2D triangle and turning it into a cone, taki

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revolving door syndrome

A situation in which employee turnover in an organization is inordinately high.

[S]exual harassment, stereotyping, racism, ageism, and sexual preference discrimination . . . have led to situations such as glass ceilings, earnings gaps, and the revolving door s

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The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.

Wiktionary

Were the earth to stop revolving, what do you suppose would happen?

Tatoeba · #25323

The word came to be used for all small heavenly bodies revolving about larger ones.

Tatoeba · #59393

Today our artificial satellites are revolving around the earth.

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To ask why I’m in favour of Esperanto is like asking Galileo why he’s in favour of the earth revolving around the sun.

Tatoeba · #1528132

Tom walked through the revolving door into the hotel lobby.

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