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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

revolve around en · VERB

Meanings

  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:
    • However, at that time I was already into the mode and interest of another important topic of international law revolving around the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity and self-determination related mainly to secessionist movements. 2014, Besfort T. Rrecaj, The Politics of Legal Regimes of Nuclear Energy in the Aspect of International Security, page 11:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
revolving around Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
revolves around Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
revolved around Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
revolved around Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (3)

es girar en torno a (Translations) · es centrarse en (Translations) · es rotar alrededor de (Translations)