Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move in response to the force of gravity.
- intransitive verb To move downward.
- intransitive verb To be attracted by or as if by an irresistible force.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be affected by gravitation; yield to the force of gravity; tend toward the lowest level attainable, as a rock loosened from a mountain.
- Hence To be strongly attracted; have a natural tendency toward a certain point or object.
- To allow to fall or move downward under the action of gravitation; manipulate (as gravel, in diamond-mining) so that the heavier portions sink to the bottom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To move under the force of
gravity . - verb intransitive (
figuratively ) Totend ordrift towards someone or something, as though being pulled bygravity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb move toward
- verb move due to the pull of gravitation
- verb be attracted to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She is the one person in the family that people just kind of gravitate to ...
Christal Smith: Lisa Ling on Her Sister's Dentention in North Korea 2009
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That's just what people kind of gravitate towards.
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That's just what people kind of gravitate towards.
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Then you have got Mitt Romney, who is sitting out there, who the social conservatives kind of gravitate towards, so the mix in the Republican primary is going to be very different than for Hillary.
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"I think quilts can tell a story and I seem to kind of gravitate toward quilts that have some meaning," she said.
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Writers 'rooms, they kind of gravitate towards a certain place.
MovieWeb: News 2010
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You kind of gravitate to people you like and we just started it for fun.
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In Bulgaria the interest rates on the interbank market "gravitate" around the 2,29\% levels for overnight deposits.
unknown title 2009
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"You kind of gravitate toward the one who needs you the most at that time … It's a balancing act.
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"You kind of gravitate toward the one who needs you the most at that time … It's a balancing act.
dbekeny commented on the word gravitate
Not really "electromagnetism"
June 9, 2010