revolve

verb

1. (archaic, transitive)To bring back into a particular place or condition; to restore.
2. (transitive)To cause (something) to turn around a central point.
3. (intransitive)To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body).

   “The Earth revolves around the sun.”

4. (intransitive)To rotate around an axis.

   “The Earth revolves once every twenty-four hours.”

   “It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.”

5. (intransitive)To move in order or sequence.

   “The program revolves through all the queues before returning to the start.”

6. (archaic, transitive)To ponder on; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.

   “These are the difficulties which arise to me on revolving this scheme […].”

   “He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.”

7. (obsolete, transitive)To read through, to study (a book, author etc.).

   “This having heard, strait I again revolv’d / The Law and Prophets.”

noun

1. The rotation of part of the scenery within a theatrical production.
2. The rotating section itself.

   “[…] a revolving stage, two-level platforms stage left and stage right, and a large bridge that connected the platforms midstage, twelve feet up off the revolve.”

3. (obsolete)A radical change; revolution.