Synonyms:
revolve, go_around, rotate
Meaning: turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
Synonyms:
orb, orbit, revolve
Meaning: move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"
Usage examples
Canst thou also compel stars to revolve around thee?
Some disturbing cause acts again, and the smaller mass begins to revolve less rapidly.
I often wished myself on a spit, to revolve slowly before the fire until thoroughly roasted.
A band slipped, a spring was touched, the gear was adjusted and the wheels revolve in their old orbit.
The moon does not revolve upon its own axis like the earth, therefore the same side or a portion of it is exposed to the sun for 14 days.
Her parting from him, hardest of all, took place in the midst of a crowd of people; then he had to leave her, and as the wheels began to revolve she went out on the side deck to have a last glimpse of the home faces.
In his hands he holds the cords of gigantic responsibilities; he speaks, and lo, lives are changed; men and women hang upon his words and remould their characters, and, sunlike, he becomes the fixed and luminous centre round which innumerable destinies revolve.
Engines at pits’ mouths, and lean old horses that had worn the circle of their daily labour into the ground, were alike quiet; wheels had ceased for a short space to turn; and the great wheel of earth seemed to revolve without the shocks and noises of another time.
This coincidence, in his own words, woke him out of sleep; and for some reason or other impelled him instantly to try making the planet oscillate in the diameter of its epicycle instead of revolve round it--a singular idea, but Copernicus had had a similar one to explain the motions of Mercury.