"revolve" | Definition and Related Words

Verb

is a type of: turn - move around an axis or a center
subtypes:
- drive in, screw - cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- screw - turn like a screw
- wheel, wheel around - change directions as if revolving on a pivot
- gyrate, reel, spin, spin around, whirl - revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- swirl, twiddle, twirl, whirl - turn in a twisting or spinning motion
same as: go around, rotate

verb group: circumvolve, rotate - cause to turn on an axis or center
is a type of: circle - move in a circular path above (someone or something)

subtypes: retrograde - move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

same as: orb, orbit
is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense

subtypes: transit - revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction

same as: roll

verb group: roll, turn over - move by turning over or rotating