| 释义 |
Definition of gravitate in English: gravitateverb ˈɡravɪteɪtˈɡrævəˌteɪt 1no object, with adverbial Move towards or be attracted to a person or thing. young western Europeans will gravitate to Berlin we instantly gravitated towards one another Example sentencesExamples - My thoughts instantly gravitated towards him.
- I don't know why newspapers and magazines gravitate towards slander.
- Seeing my arts students take their certificates as graduation today was a great moment, as was hearing what they are going to study as of next week - each of them seems to have gravitated towards the subject areas most suited to them.
- My husband is vegetarian, but the children aren't, so they can have anything they want in moderation, though my eldest daughter gravitates towards vegetarianism.
- Instead of stepping into the medical profession, he gravitated towards music.
- They made it clear that during the day people gravitate towards the town hall.
- Advertisers gravitate towards low end brands where negative feelings against them are outweighed by the fact that some percentage of overall listeners will convert to buyers.
- Fairly quickly, I gravitated towards one chat room in particular.
- We were gravitating towards other people in similar fields who were making a difference.
- They're found in all of the oceans of the world, but they gravitate towards the waters of the Arctics, where the food is plentiful and humans are rare.
- During this time he took a Masters degree course in Trinity College in Anglo-Irish literature and his interests gravitated towards Dublin.
- The solution that they seem to be gravitating towards is immigration.
- The political system is not opening, but the language of politics is clearly opening up, and it's gravitating towards what the youth would relate to, about popular culture, in effect.
- ‘The people with a passion for motor sports seem to gravitate towards it - if they can't be driving then it makes them feel a part of it,’ he says.
- I could probably hazard a few surmises but I gravitated towards this kind of journalism, talking to strong personalities about their strongly-held beliefs because it's a comfortable position for me.
- He had that presence which made people gravitate towards him.
- Writing songs from personal experience, Natalie gravitated towards country music because of its honesty and directness.
- Here, his interests gravitated towards modernist painters such as Picasso and DeKooning.
- The importance of Paris as an artistic centre, particularly in the book trade, meant that many foreign artists gravitated towards the French capital, attracted by the wealth of patrons.
- Throughout my life, I've gravitated towards these amazing, exceptional people.
2Physics
no object, with adverbial Move, or tend to move, towards a centre of gravity or other attractive force. the electron does not gravitate towards the nucleus Example sentencesExamples - Four blocks gravitate simultaneously towards the centre of the piece when a lever on the side is moved.
- Similarly, instead of being thrown off into space by their movement round the sun, the planets would gravitate towards the centre of their whirlpool.
- The moon gravitates towards the earth, and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion, and retained in its orbit.
- For such a scenario, the centrifugal forces would cause its water veneer to gravitate away from the poles and pile up at the equator.
- If it turns out that antimatter gravitates in any way different from matter, a whole lot of theory is going to have to be revised.
- When ordinary matter gravitates together, it clumps forming familiar objects like stars and planets.
Synonyms move, head, be pulled, drift tend, have a tendency, lean, incline, veer be drawn to, be attracted to - 2.1archaic Descend or sink by the force of gravity.
water does not gravitate on any part of itself beneath it Example sentencesExamples - Water gravitates toward the sea; vapor rises to the sky.
- We descend directly to the stern at 30m and gravitate immediately to the impressive 3m propeller.
- Fortunes gravitate to those whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
Origin Mid 17th century: from modern Latin gravitat-, from the verb gravitare, from Latin gravitas 'weight'. Definition of gravitate in US English: gravitateverbˈɡravəˌtātˈɡrævəˌteɪt [no object]1Move toward or be attracted to a place, person, or thing. they gravitated to the Catholic faith in their hour of need Example sentencesExamples - They're found in all of the oceans of the world, but they gravitate towards the waters of the Arctics, where the food is plentiful and humans are rare.
- My thoughts instantly gravitated towards him.
- The solution that they seem to be gravitating towards is immigration.
- Seeing my arts students take their certificates as graduation today was a great moment, as was hearing what they are going to study as of next week - each of them seems to have gravitated towards the subject areas most suited to them.
- The importance of Paris as an artistic centre, particularly in the book trade, meant that many foreign artists gravitated towards the French capital, attracted by the wealth of patrons.
- They made it clear that during the day people gravitate towards the town hall.
- I don't know why newspapers and magazines gravitate towards slander.
- I could probably hazard a few surmises but I gravitated towards this kind of journalism, talking to strong personalities about their strongly-held beliefs because it's a comfortable position for me.
- Fairly quickly, I gravitated towards one chat room in particular.
- Here, his interests gravitated towards modernist painters such as Picasso and DeKooning.
- During this time he took a Masters degree course in Trinity College in Anglo-Irish literature and his interests gravitated towards Dublin.
- We were gravitating towards other people in similar fields who were making a difference.
- Throughout my life, I've gravitated towards these amazing, exceptional people.
- Advertisers gravitate towards low end brands where negative feelings against them are outweighed by the fact that some percentage of overall listeners will convert to buyers.
- ‘The people with a passion for motor sports seem to gravitate towards it - if they can't be driving then it makes them feel a part of it,’ he says.
- Writing songs from personal experience, Natalie gravitated towards country music because of its honesty and directness.
- Instead of stepping into the medical profession, he gravitated towards music.
- The political system is not opening, but the language of politics is clearly opening up, and it's gravitating towards what the youth would relate to, about popular culture, in effect.
- He had that presence which made people gravitate towards him.
- My husband is vegetarian, but the children aren't, so they can have anything they want in moderation, though my eldest daughter gravitates towards vegetarianism.
- 1.1Physics Move, or tend to move, toward a center of gravity or other attractive force.
Example sentencesExamples - When ordinary matter gravitates together, it clumps forming familiar objects like stars and planets.
- The moon gravitates towards the earth, and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion, and retained in its orbit.
- Similarly, instead of being thrown off into space by their movement round the sun, the planets would gravitate towards the centre of their whirlpool.
- Four blocks gravitate simultaneously towards the centre of the piece when a lever on the side is moved.
- If it turns out that antimatter gravitates in any way different from matter, a whole lot of theory is going to have to be revised.
- For such a scenario, the centrifugal forces would cause its water veneer to gravitate away from the poles and pile up at the equator.
Synonyms move, head, be pulled, drift - 1.2archaic Descend or sink by the force of gravity.
Example sentencesExamples - Water gravitates toward the sea; vapor rises to the sky.
- Fortunes gravitate to those whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
- We descend directly to the stern at 30m and gravitate immediately to the impressive 3m propeller.
Origin Mid 17th century: from modern Latin gravitat-, from the verb gravitare, from Latin gravitas ‘weight’. |