Definitions for rotate
ˈroʊ teɪt; esp. Brit. roʊˈteɪtro·tate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. revolve, go around, rotateverb

   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"

2. rotateverb

   exchange on a regular basis

   "We rotate the lead soprano every night"

3. rotateverb

   perform a job or duty on a rotating basis

   "Interns have to rotate for a few months"

4. rotate, circumvolveverb

   cause to turn on an axis or center

   "Rotate the handle"

5. turn out, splay, spread out, rotateverb

   turn outward

   "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"

6. rotateverb

   plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession

   "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rotateverb

   to spin, turn, or revolve.

   He rotated in his chair to face me.

2. rotateverb

   to advance through a sequence; to take turns.

   The nurses' shifts rotate each week.

3. rotateverb

   to lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.

   The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.

4. rotateverb

   to spin, turn, or revolve something.

   Rotate the dial to the left.

5. rotateverb

   to advance something through a sequence.

6. rotateverb

   to replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.

   The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.

7. rotateverb

   to grow or plant in a certain order.

8. Etymology: From rotatus, perfect passive participle of roto, from rota.

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1. rotate

   Rotation, or spin, is the circular movement of an object around a central axis. A two-dimensional rotating object has only one possible central axis and can rotate in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. A three-dimensional object has an infinite number of possible central axes and rotational directions. If the rotation axis passes internally through the body's own center of mass, then the body is said to be autorotating or spinning, and the surface intersection of the axis can be called a pole. A rotation around a completely external axis, e.g. the planet Earth around the Sun, is called revolving or orbiting, typically when it is produced by gravity, and the ends of the rotation axis can be called the orbital poles.

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1. Rotateadjective

   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. Rotateverb

   to turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve

3. Rotateverb

   to perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office

4. Rotateverb

   to cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle

5. Rotateverb

   to cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office

6. Etymology: [L. rotatus, p. p. of rotare to turn round like a wheel, fr. rota wheel. See Rotary, and cf. Roue.]

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rotate

   wheel-shaped.

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1. • Alternate
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1. tetrao

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rotate in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rotate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of rotate in a Sentence

1. Gary Ross:

   We urge China to reaffirm that it has no plans to deploy or rotate military aircraft at its outposts in the Spratlys, in keeping with China's prior assurances.

2. Ed Grose:

   We live and die by our convention center, when our conventions started to cancel during the pandemic, it was not only a short-term problem, but also a long-term problem because we don't know when some of those conventions are going to rotate back to Philadelphia.

3. Colonel Restituto Padilla:

   We want the U.S. military to watch over our ships, which China attempts to block every time we rotate troops and bring supplies to a ship that ran aground on Ayungin shoal.

4. Louis Kuijs of Oxford Economics:

   China's economy performed well in the initial stages of the recovery from Covid-19, benefiting from infrastructure-oriented stimulus and strong real estate activity and exports, the big question in China is whether this year growth can rotate away from infrastructure and real estate to corporate investment and consumption.

5. Michael Hess:

   What's happening in commercial crew is a big deal, crew Dragon, Crew Dragon, was designed and built by SpaceX, not by NASA and traditional contractor partnerships. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will definitely be earning Bob Behnken spacecraft test pilot wings with this mission. Also, the Space Station Program is really looking forward to another way to rotate crews to [ the ] station to perform science and experiments to benefit all.

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