revolve

1. Turn on or around an axis or a center (synset 202048992)
   "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
   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
2. Move in an orbit (synset 202047875)
   "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"
   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
3. Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis (synset 201870596)
   "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"
   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

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