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Rotate   /rˈoʊtˌeɪt/   Listen
Rotate

verb
(past & past part. rotated; pres. part. rotating)
1.
Turn on or around an axis or a center.  Synonyms: go around, revolve.  "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
2.
Exchange on a regular basis.
3.
Perform a job or duty on a rotating basis.
4.
Cause to turn on an axis or center.  Synonym: circumvolve.
5.
Turn outward.  Synonyms: splay, spread out, turn out.  "Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
6.
Plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession.





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"Rotate" Quotes from Famous Books



... ascertained with certainty whether Mercury and Venus rotate in about twenty-four hours, or whether the period is the same as that of their revolution round the sun. The evidence seems to point to the ...
— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks
... had bestowed upon mankind in the American self-filling rotary Bird of Freedom inkstand with revolving lid, had said, with the tears of patriotic shame and sorrow in his eyes, that there were recreant writers who preferred to purchase the Birmingham inkstand, which required to be filled, did not rotate, and had no revolution to its lid, at fifty cents, than to secure his own triumph of American ingenuity at ten dollars. Such misguided men must be taught their duty to their native land. Mr. SCHENCK moved an increase to 4,000 per cent, ad valorem on the foreign jack-plane, which he characterized ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 • Various
... and revolve eccentric till the port just begins to open on its forward stroke. Rotate crank disc on shaft till the crank pin ...
— Things To Make • Archibald Williams
... th' aspiring candidate In Hesiod each alternate day: One showed him how the crops rotate From Cato De Re Rustica: The bee that in our bonnets lurks He taught to yield its honied store By reading Columella's works And also Virgil ...
— Lyra Frivola • A. D. Godley


Words linked to "Rotate" :   spread out, crank up, wheel, whirl, drive in, turn, birl, alternate, crank, screw, birle, twirl, turn out, swirl, rotation, go around, reel, grow, spin around, circumvolve, spin, wheel around, gyrate, twiddle, serve, rotatory


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