revolution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
card-games
games
government
natural-sciences
politics
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Late Latin revolūtiō (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolvō (“roll back, revolve”).
Inflected forms:
form: revolutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The revolution had completely transformed the monarchy into a republic.
Una rivoluzione è certamente la cosa più autoritaria che ci sia: è l'atto per il quale una parte della popolazione impone la sua volontà all'altra parte per mezzo di fucili, baionette e cannoni; mezzi autoritari, se ce ne sono; e il partito vittorioso, se non vuole aver combattuto invano, deve continuare questo dominio col terrore che le sue armi inspirano ai reazionari.
The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life.
gloss: The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
gloss: Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc.
The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis, and a yearly course around the sun.
Numerous cases are recorded which incontestibly prove that during pregnancy, the uterus perform a half or even a complete revolution, on itself, producing torsion of the cervix […]
gloss: In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It takes 365 days for the Earth to complete one revolution around the sun.
gloss: A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the AI revolution
Ông Kac-Mac là kinh tế học K. M. Ông ấy ngiên kứu rõ ràng tư bản chủ ngĩa, dế quốc chủ ngĩa, zai kấp tranh dấu, vân vân ở dâu mà sinh ra; lịch sử nó thế nào, hiện tượng nó thế nào, và kết quả nó sẽ ra thế nào.
In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.
gloss: A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is reversed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: revolve
Derived words: agricultural revolution
antirevolution
a revolution is not a dinner party
Blue Revolution
color revolution
colour revolution
coloured revolution
Common Sense Revolution
counterrevolution
counter-revolution
counter revolution
cyberrevolution
democratic revolution
ellipsoid of revolution
French Revolution
Green Revolution
green revolution
hyperboloid of revolution
Industrial Revolution
information revolution
nerd revolution
Nicaraguan Revolution
nonrevolution
Orange Revolution
oxygen revolution
palace revolution
paraboloid of revolution
permanent revolution
perpetual revolution
postrevolution
prerevolution
prorevolution
pseudorevolution
quiet revolution
Reagan Revolution
Revolution
revolutional
revolutionary
revolutioneer
revolutionise
revolutionism
revolutionist
revolutionize
robolution
robot revolution
Rose Revolution
Russian Revolution
sexual revolution
solid of revolution
subrevolution
surface of revolution
the revolution will not be civilized
the revolution will not be televised
White Revolution
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