'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
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]
Synonyms of 'rotate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- wind
Words containing 'Rotate'
- Rotated,
- Rotating,
- Rotation,
- Rotative,
- Rotator,
- rotatable,
- rotational,
- rotationally,
- Moment of rotation,
- Negative rotation,
- Positive rotation,
- Rotation in office,
- Rotation of crops,
- Rotative engine,
- axial rotation,
- axis of rotation,
- clockwise rotation,
- counterclockwise rotation,
- orbital rotation,
- rotating mechanism,
- rotating shaft,
- rotational latency,
- rotational nystagmus,
- rotator cuff,
- Instantaneous axis of rotation,
- Instantaneous center of rotation,
- post-rotational nystagmus