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Definition of Rotate

1. Verb. Turn on or around an axis or a center. "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"

2. Verb. Exchange on a regular basis. "We rotate the lead soprano every night"

3. Verb. Perform a job or duty on a rotating basis. "Interns have to rotate for a few months"

4. Verb. Cause to turn on an axis or center. "Rotate the handle"

5. Verb. Turn outward. "Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"

6. Verb. Plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession. "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"

Definition of Rotate

1. a. 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.

2. v. i. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.

3. v. i. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.

Definition of Rotate

1. to turn about an axis [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES]

Medical Definition of Rotate

1. 1. To turn. 2. Circular and flattened, for example of a corolla with a very short tube and spreading lobes. (17 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rotate

rotary actuator Rotary Club rotary converter rotary engine Rotary International rotary joint rotary joint rotary motion rotary press rotary subluxation of scaphoid

rotary wing rotas rotascope rotatable rotate (current term) rotate (current term) rotated rotates rotating rotating anode

rotating anode tube rotating mechanism rotating shaft rotation rotation rotational rotationally rotational axis rotational latency rotational nystagmus

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