revolve-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: (cause to) turn or rotate around an axis or center

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1[theme[concrete]] REVOLVE (PP{around NP[theme[concrete]]) Includes: REVOLVE AROUND, REVOLVE ABOUT

Examples:
The Planets revolve around the Sun.
The giant gear revolved slowly.
The principal states that one object revolves about another.

Mappings:
VerbNet: modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3,roll-51.3.1
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: revolve.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
revolve_around 2

Sense Number 2: focus on, center on, concentrate on, usually important

Commentary: Syntax Includes: NP1[theme[abstract]] REVOLVE (PP) Includes: REVOLVE AROUND, REVOLVE ABOUT
NOTE: This is a metaphorical subsense of sense 1.

Examples:
The '08 race revolves around power rhetoric.
She thinks the world revolves around her.
Your social network revolves around your neighborhood.
The plot of Hamlet revolves about the initial apparition of the Ghost.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: revolve.01
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
revolve_about 1
revolve_around 1