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Webster 1913 Edition


Rotate

Ro′tate

,
Adj.
[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.

Ro′tate

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rotated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Rotating
.]
1.
To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
2.
To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn;
as, to
rotate
in office
.

Ro′tate

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Rotate

RO'TATE

,
Adj.
In botany, wheel-shaped; monopetalous, spreading flat, without any tube, or expanding into a flat border, with scarcely any tube; as a rotate corol.

Definition 2024


rotate

rotate

English

Verb

rotate (third-person singular simple present rotates, present participle rotating, simple past and past participle rotated)

  1. (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
    He rotated in his chair to face me.
  2. (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
    The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
  3. (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
    The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
  4. (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
    Rotate the dial to the left.
  5. (transitive) To advance something through a sequence.
  6. (transitive) 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. (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.

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Adjective

rotate (not comparable)

  1. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
    a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla

Italian

Verb

rotate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of rotare
  2. second-person plural imperative of rotare
  3. feminine plural of rotato

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Latin

Verb

rotāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of rotō