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ROTATES |
Revolves |
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CIRCLES |
Revolves around |
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ORBITS |
Revolves around |
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SUN |
The world revolves around this loud boy |
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AXLE |
The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which
revolves with a wheel. |
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STEP |
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a
vertical shaft revolves. |
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CENTER |
One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon
which the work is held, and about which it revolves. |
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SATELLITE |
A secondary planet which revolves about another planet;
as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under
Solar. |
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ECCENTRICITY |
The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit
of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves
to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit. |
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SPIN |
To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by
bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool
or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe. |
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AXIS |
A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body,
on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing
through a body ... |
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TYMPANUM |
...ns by
which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the
lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water,
... |
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REVOLVER |
One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm
( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to
revolve on an... |
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PLANET |
A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit
of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet
by the absence... |
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SHAFT |
A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more
journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or
more wheels or othe... |
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LAP |
...is usually in the form of wheel or disk,
which revolves on a vertical axis. ... |
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JUPITER |
...nus, and
the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It
revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5... |
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MOON |
The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the
satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from
the sun, is reflec... |
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WILLOW |
...leansed by
the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within
a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from ... |