Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 61
Revolving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revolve.
Revolve (v. i.) 旋轉，自轉 [（+on）]；沿軌道轉 [（+round/ about）] To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
If the earth revolve thus, each house near the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. -- I. Watts.
Revolve (v. i.) To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.
Revolve (v. i.) To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.
Revolve (v. i.) To return; to pass. [R.] -- Ayliffe.
Revolve (v. t.) 使旋轉；反覆思考，斟酌 To cause to turn, as on an axis.
Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile. -- Milton.
Revolve (v. t.) Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.
This having heard, straight I again revolved The law and prophets. -- Milton.
Revolve (v.) Turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire" [syn: revolve, go around, rotate].
Revolve (v.) Move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus" [syn: orb, orbit, revolve].
Revolve (v.) Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words" [syn: roll, revolve].
Revolvement (n.) Act of revolving. [R.]
Revolvency (n.) The act or state of revolving; revolution. [Archaic]
Its own revolvency upholds the world. -- Cowper.
Revolver (n.) 左輪手槍；旋轉器；旋轉體；循環信用，又稱 revolving credit; One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.
Revolver (n.) A pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) [syn: revolver, six-gun, six-shooter].
Revolver (n.) A door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings [syn: revolving door, revolver].
Revolving (a.) 旋轉的；輪轉式的；循環的；revolve的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth.
But grief returns with the revolving year. -- Shelley.
Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. -- Cowper.
Revolving firearm. See Revolver.
Revolving light, A light or lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals, either by being turned about an axis so as to show light only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally intercepted by a revolving screen.
Revue (n.) 諷刺時事的滑稽劇 A variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians [syn: revue, review].
Revulse (v. t.) To pull back with force. [R.] -- Cowper.
Revulsion (n.) [U] （感情的）突變，劇變；嫌惡；強烈反感 [（+against）]；【罕】收回，抽回；撤回 A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal. "Revulsions and pullbacks." -- SSir T. Brovne.
Revulsion (n.) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; -- applied to the feelings.
A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed. -- Macaulay.
Revulsion (n.) (Med.) The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.
Revulsion (n.) Intense aversion [syn: repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, horror].
Revulsive (a.) 心情突變的；致使心情突變的；誘導的 Causing, or tending to, revulsion.
Revulsive (n.) 誘導劑；誘導器 That which causes revulsion; specifically (Med.), a revulsive remedy or agent.
Rew (n.) A row. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. "A rew of sundry colored stones." -- Chapman.
Rewake (v. t. & i.) To wake again.
Rewarded (imp. & p. p.) of Reward.
Rewarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reward.
Reward (v. t.) 報答，報償；酬謝；獎勵 [（+with/ for）] [O1]；報應；懲罰（壞人或壞事）[（+for）] To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. -- Piers Plowman.
Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. -- 1 Sam. xxiv. 17.
I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. -- Deut. xxxii. 41.
God rewards those that have made use of the single talent. -- Hammond.
Reward (n.) 報答；報償；獎賞；報應[U][C]；酬金；賞金；獎品[C][（+for）] Regard; respect; consideration. [Obs.]
Take reward of thine own value. -- Chaucer.
Reward (n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.
Thou returnest From flight, seditious angel, to receive Thy merited reward. -- Milton.
Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill. -- Hooker.
Reward (n.) Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward. -- Eccl. ix. 5.
Reward (n.) (Law) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. -- Burrill.
Syn: Recompense; compensation; remuneration; pay; requital; retribution; punishment.
Reward (n.) A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward" [syn: wages, reward, payoff].
Reward (n.) Payment made in return for a service rendered.
Reward (n.) An act performed to strengthen approved behavior [syn: reward, reinforcement].
Reward (n.) The offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property.
Reward (n.) Benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity" [syn: advantage, reward] [ant: penalty].
Reward (v.) Bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageous action" [syn: honor, honour, reward] [ant: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame].
Reward (v.) Strengthen and support with rewards; "Let's reinforce good behavior" [syn: reinforce, reward].
Reward (v.) Act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions [syn: reward, repay, pay back].
Reward (n.) [ C ] (B1) 報答；報償；酬謝；獎賞 Something given in exchange for good behaviour or good work, etc.
// There's a reward for whoever finishes first.
// The rewards of motherhood outweigh the anguish.
Reward (n.) [ C ] (B1) 酬金；賞格；懸賞金 An amount of money given to someone who helps the police or who helps to return stolen property to its owner.
// The police offered a reward for any information about the robbery.
Reward (v.) [ T ] (B2) 報答；報償；獎賞 To give someone a reward.
// The company rewarded him for his years of service with a grand farewell party and several presents.
// All his hard work was rewarded (= was made worth it) when he saw his book in print.
// (Formal) He rewarded their kindness with hostility and contempt.
Rewardable (a.) Worthy of reward. -- Re*ward"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*ward"a*bly, adv.
Rewarder (n.) One who rewards.
Rewardful (a.) Yielding reward. [R.]
Rewardful (a.) 有報酬的；有酬勞的 Offering or productive of reward; "rewardful pursuits."
Rewarding (a.) 有益的；有報酬的 Providing personal satisfaction; "a rewarding career as a paramedic" [ant: {unrewarding}].
Rewardless (a.) 無報酬的；徒勞的；白費氣力的 Having, or affording, no reward.
Rewe (v. t. & i.) To rue. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Rewel bone () An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone.
His saddle was of rewel boon. -- Chaucer.
Rewet (n.) A gunlock. [R.]
Rewful (a.) Rueful. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Rewin (v. t.) To win again, or win back.
The Palatinate was not worth the rewinning. -- Fuller.
Rewle (n. & v.) Rule. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Rewme (n.) Realm. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Reword (v. t.) To repeat in the same words; to reecho. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Reword (v. t.) To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage.
Reword (v. i.) 重述；改寫 Express the same message in different words [syn: paraphrase, rephrase, reword].
Rewrite (v. t.) 重寫；改寫；修改；【美】加工編寫（新聞稿等） To write again. -- Young.
Rewrite (n.) [C] 重寫；改寫Something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better" [syn: rewrite, revision, rescript].
Rewrite (v.) 重寫；改寫；修改；【美】加工編寫；改寫舊作 Write differently; alter the writing of; "The student rewrote his thesis."
Rewrite (v.) Rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose; "re-write a play for use in schools."
Rewth (n.) Ruth. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Reges (n. pl. ) of Rex.
Rex (n.; pl. Reges.) [L.] A king.
To play rex, To play the king; to domineer. [Obs.]
Reyn (n.) Rain or rein. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Compare: Renard
Renard (n.) 狐名；狐 A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry. [Written also reynard.]
Reynard (n.) An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard.
Reynard (n.) A conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox.'
Reyse (v. t.) To raise. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Reyse (v. i.) To go on a military expedition. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Rhabarbarate (a.) Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. -- Floyer. Rhabarbarin
Rhabarbarin (n.) Alt. of Rhabarbarine
Rhabarbarine (n.) (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid.
Rhabdite (n.) (Zool.) 杆狀體；葉突 A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.
Rhabdite (n.) (Zool.) One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.
Rhabdocoela (n. pl.) (Zool.) 單腸目 A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.
Rhabdocoelous (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Rhabdocoela.
Rhabdoidal (a.) (Anat.) See Sagittal. [Written also rhabdoidal.]
Rhabdolith (n.) 棒狀晶體 A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.
Rabdology (n.) The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napier's bones. See Napier's bones. [Written also rhabdology.]
Rhabdology (n.) Same as Rabdology.
Rhabdom (n.) (Zool.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.
Rhabdomancy (n.) Same as Rabdomancy.
Rhabdomere (n.) (Zool.) One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.
Rhabdophora (n. pl.) (Zool.) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.
Rhabdopleura (n.) (Zool.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata
Rhabdosphere (n.) A minute sphere composed of rhabdoliths.
Rhachialgia (n.) [NL.] See Rachialgia.
Rhachidian (a.) Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk.
Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.
Rhachilla (n.) (Bot.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.
Rhachiodont (a.) (Zool.) Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebrae, as certain South African snakes (Dasypeltis) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them.
Rhachises (n. pl. ) of Rhachis.
Rhachides (n. pl. ) of Rhachis.
Rhachis (n.) (Anat.) 葉軸 The spine.
Rhachis (n.) (Bot.) The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern.
Rhachis (n.) (Bot.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb.
Rhachis (n.) (Zool.) The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis.
Rhachis (n.) (Zool.) The central cord in the stem of a crinoid.
Rhachis (n.) (Zool.) The median part of the radula of a mollusk.
Rhachis (n.) (Zool.) A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.
Compare: Rachitis
Rachitis (n.) [Written also rhachitis.] (Med.) Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets.
Rachitis (n.) (Bot.) A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds. -- Henslow.
Rhachitis (n.) [NL.] See Rachitis.
Rhadamanthine (a.) 【希神】拉達曼西斯（Rhadamanthus, Zeus和Europa之子，生前公正，死後封冥府判官）的，判官的；嚴峻的；公正的 Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.
Rhadamanthus (n.) (Greek Mythol.) 鐵面無私的法官 One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.
Rhadamanthus (n.) (Greek mythology) A judge of the dead in the underworld.
Rhaetian (a & n.) Rhetain.
Rhaetic (a.) (Geol.) Pertaining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology.
Rhaetizite (n.) (Min.) 白晶石 A variety of the mineral cyanite.
Rhamadan (n.) See Ramadan.
Rhamnaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceae, or Rhamneae) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus).
Rhamnus (n.) 鼠李屬 A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.
Rhamphorhynchus (n.) 喙嘴翼龍屬 A genus of pterodactyls in which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.
Rhamphothecae (n. pl. ) of Rhamphotheca.
Rhamphotheca (n.) The horny covering of the bill of birds.
Rhaphe (n.) The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam.
Rhaphides (n. pl.) Minute transparent, often needle-shaped, crystals found in the tissues of plants.
Rhaponticine (n.) Chrysophanic acid.
Rhapsode (n.) A rhapsodist.
Rhapsoder (n.) A rhapsodist.
Rhapsodic (a.) Alt. of Rhapsodic.
Rhapsodic (a.) 吟誦史詩的；狂熱的；【音】狂想曲的 Of or pertaining to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody; hence, confused; unconnected. -- Rhap*sod"ic*al*ly, adv.
Rhapsodic (a.) Feeling great rapture or delight [syn: ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rapt, rhapsodic].
Rhapsodist (n.) 吟誦史詩的人；狂文作者 Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and other epic poets.
Compare: Rhapsody
Rhapsody (n.) 吟誦史詩；狂詩；狂文；【音】狂想曲 A work of epic poetry, or part of one, that is suitable for recitation at one time.
// Rhapsode, a classical Greek professional performer of epic poetry.
Rhapsodist (n.) Hence, one who recites or sings poems for a livelihood; one who makes and repeats verses extempore.
The same populace sit for hours listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto. -- Carlyle.
Rhapsodist (n.) One who writes or speaks disconnectedly and with great excitement or affectation of feeling. -- I. Watts.
Rhapsodized (imp. & p. p.) of Rhapsodize.