The basic meanings here are ‘roll, turn’. The bindweed plant gets its other name, convolvulus, from its winding and twisted growth.
The ‘rolling’ or ‘turning back’ in words such as revolve, revolt, and revolution can be of different sorts. With the first it is usually physical – records revolve on a turntable. But it can be figurative: The story revolves around two characters. Revolt and revolution often have the idea of political or social turnarounds. The verb revolt and its derivatives have the extra sense of ‘turning away in disgust’: Soggy cornflakes are revolting.
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