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rotate

 : 
Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
 : 
ro=tate

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb rotate has 6 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

rotatea. [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]
rotatev. i. 
  •  To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.  [1913 Webster]
rotatev. i. 
  •  To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.  Harper's Mag.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rotate, v.
1 intr. & tr. move round an axis or centre, revolve.
2 a tr. take or arrange in rotation. b intr. act or take place in rotation (the chairmanship will rotate).

Derivative
rotatable adj. rotative adj. rotatory adj.
rotate, adj. Bot. wheel-shaped.

Etymology
formed as ROTA

THESAURUS

rotate

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

ROGET THESAURUS

rotate

Rotation

VB rotate, roll along, revolve, spin, turn round, circumvolve, circulate, gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette, twirl, trundle, troll, bowl, roll up, furl, wallow, welter, box the compass, spin like a top, spin like a teetotum, spin out.

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