REVOLVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revolved mean? 

• REVOLVED (adjective)
  The adjective REVOLVED has 1 sense:

1. turned in a circle around an axis

  Familiarity information: REVOLVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVOLVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turned in a circle around an axis

Synonyms:

revolved; rotated

Similar:

turned (moved around an axis or center)

 Context examples 

He revolved a thousand plans by which he should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Jo revolved, and Amy gave a touch here and there, then fell back, with her head on one side, observing graciously, Yes, you'll do.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As I ran down the passage, my sister’s door was unlocked, and revolved slowly upon its hinges.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Faster and faster it revolved, until its vortex sucked him in and he was flung whirling through black chaos.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Suddenly, as the landlady’s footsteps died away, there was the creak of a turning key, the handle revolved, and two thin hands darted out and lifted the tray from the chair.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The breeze fell for some seconds, very low, and the current gradually turning her, the HISPANIOLA revolved slowly round her centre and at last presented me her stern, with the cabin window still gaping open and the lamp over the table still burning on into the day.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It employs a large motor-driven apparatus with a long arm, at the end of which human and animal subjects, biological specimens, or equipment can be revolved and rotated at various speeds to study gravitational effects.

(Centrifugation, NCI Thesaurus)

I revolved many projects, but that on which I finally fixed was to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I revolved rapidly in my mind a multitude of thoughts and endeavoured to arrive at some conclusion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I revolved these circumstances in my mind and determined thenceforth to apply myself more particularly to those branches of natural philosophy which relate to physiology.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)