'Rotate' definitions:

Definition of 'rotate'

(from WordNet)
verb
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" [syn: revolve, go around, rotate]
verb
Exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"
verb
Perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"
verb
Cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle" [syn: rotate, circumvolve]
verb
Turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" [syn: turn out, splay, spread out, rotate]
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'

From: GCIDE
  • Rotate \Ro"tate\, 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]

Definition of 'Rotate'

From: GCIDE
  • Rotate \Ro"tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rotated; p. pr. & vb. n. Rotating.]
  • 1. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Rotate'

From: GCIDE
  • Rotate \Ro"tate\, v. i.
  • 1. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office. [Colloq.] "Both, after a brief service, were rotated out of office." --Harper's Mag. [1913 Webster]