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rotary motion |
rotary press |
rotary wing |
rotascope |
rotatable |
rotate
| rotated
| rotating mechanism
| rotating shaft
| rotation
| rotational
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rotate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb rotate has 6 senses
- rotate(v = verb.motion) go around, revolve - 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" is one way to turn
- rotate(v = verb.social) Array - exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night" is one way to alternate
- rotate(v = verb.competition) Array - perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months" is one way to serve
- rotate(v = verb.motion) circumvolve - cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle" is one way to turn
- rotate(v = verb.motion) splay, spread out, turn out - turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" is one way to turn
- rotate(v = verb.change) Array - plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil" is one way to grow
Derived form noun rotation1
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
Derived form noun rotation4
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derived form noun rotation4
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Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derived forms noun rotation1, adjective rotatory1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived form noun rotation4
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Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
rotate, a. [L. rotatus, p. p. of rotare to turn round like a wheel, fr. rota wheel. See Rotary, and cf. Roue.].
Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e. , a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one. [1913 Webster]
rotate, v. i.
- To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve. [1913 Webster]
- To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office. [1913 Webster]
rotate, v. i.
- To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle. [1913 Webster]
- To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office. Harper's Mag. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rotate, v.
1 intr. & tr. move round an axis or centre, revolve.
2 a tr. take or arrange in rotation. b intr. act or take place in rotation (the chairmanship will rotate).
1 intr. & tr. move round an axis or centre, revolve.
2 a tr. take or arrange in rotation. b intr. act or take place in rotation (the chairmanship will rotate).
Derivative
rotatable adj. rotative adj. rotatory adj.
rotate, adj. Bot. wheel-shaped.
Etymology
formed as ROTA
THESAURUS
rotate
advance, alternate, ascend, back, back up, bandy, be here again, become airborne, budge, change, change place, circle, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, clear, climb, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come up again, convert, crank, cycle, descend, ebb, ensue, evert, exchange, flow, fly aloft, follow, get over, go, go around, go round, go sideways, gyrate, gyre, interchange, intermit, introvert, intussuscept, invaginate, inverse, invert, jump off, leave the ground, mount, move, move over, oscillate, pirouette, pivot, plunge, progress, pronate, pulsate, pulse, reappear, recur, reel, regress, relieve, reoccur, repeat, resupinate, retrogress, return, reverse, revolve, rise, roll, roll around, round, run, screw, shift, sink, soar, spell, spin, stir, stream, subside, succeed, supinate, swap, swing, switch, swivel, take off, take turns, taxi, transpose, travel, turn, turn a pirouette, turn about, turn around, turn down, turn in, turn inside out, turn out, turn over, turn round, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn upside down, twirl, twist, undulate, wamble, wane, wheel, wheel around, whirl, windROGET THESAURUS
rotate
Rotation
VB rotate, roll along, revolve, spin, turn round, circumvolve, circulate, gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette, twirl, trundle, troll, bowl, roll up, furl, wallow, welter, box the compass, spin like a top, spin like a teetotum, spin out.
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