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revolve around

revolve around verb: to rotate about (an axis); to orbit.

Verb

revolve around (third-person singular simple present revolves around, present participle revolving around, simple past and past participle revolved around)

  1. (literally) To rotate about (an axis); to orbit.
    • The Earth revolves around the Sun.
  2. (idiomatic) To be essentially connected with; to concern.
    • His life revolves around beer and bad jokes.
    • In Chapter 1 we learned the fundamental security concepts revolving around the DMZ, what the DMZ is, and how to design a basic DMZ with traffic flows.2003, Robert J. Shimonski et al., Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks, Syngress, page 50

Forms of revolve around

third-person singular presentrevolves around
present participlerevolving around
past participlerevolved around
pastrevolved around

Questions about revolve around

What does revolve around mean?
Revolve around means to rotate about (an axis); to orbit.
What part of speech is revolve around?
Revolve around is a verb.
What is the past tense of revolve around?
The past tense of revolve around is revolved around.

Words near revolve around in the dictionary

  1. revolutions
  2. revolutions are not made with rosewater
  3. revolutive
  4. revolvable
  5. revolve
  6. revolve around
  7. revolved
  8. revolved around
  9. revolvement
  10. revolvements
  11. revolvency

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