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REVOLVING
Traducere în limba română
revolving adjectiv
1. (despre anotimpuri etc.) care revine; (despre planete etc.) care se învârteşte / se roteşte / gravitează.
2. (tehn.) turnant, pivotant; rotatoriu, giratoriu; rotativ.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
He pulled a lever and made his mind revolve about him, a monstrous wheel of fortune, a merry-go-round of memory, a revolving sphere of wisdom.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
Look. I place the transparent scale on this star-map, revolving the scale on the North Pole.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
An international team of astronomers discovered an exoplanet, called NGTS-1b, revolving around M-dwarf star NGTS-1, that the team said does not fit existing notions of how stars and planets form.
(Astronomers report dwarf star with unexpectedly giant planet, Wikinews)
They argued with many examples and analogies for a good ten minutes, revolving round me at the same time with their heads on one side and their glasses to their eyes.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he hurtled through the air, with giant limbs revolving, the lad's heart was in his mouth; for surely no man ever yet had such a fall and came scathless out of it.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In revolving Lady Catherine's expressions, however, she could not help feeling some uneasiness as to the possible consequence of her persisting in this interference.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
Even now, when I am gravely revolving the matter, it is almost impossible to realise that the cause of all our trouble is still existent.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
Elizabeth was, in fact, revolving a great measure.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
He had swung round his revolving chair so as to face me, and he sat all puffed out like an enormous bull-frog, his head laid back and his eyes half-covered by supercilious lids.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In revolving these matters, while she undressed, it suddenly struck her as not unlikely that she might that morning have passed near the very spot of this unfortunate woman's confinement—might have been within a few paces of the cell in which she languished out her days; for what part of the abbey could be more fitted for the purpose than that which yet bore the traces of monastic division?
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
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