rotate

Definitions

1. 1adjective

   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. 2intransitive verb

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

3. 3intransitive verb

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

4. 4intransitive verb

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

5. 5intransitive verb

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

6. 6verb

   plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession

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

7. 7verb

   perform a job or duty on a rotating basis

   "Interns have to rotate for a few months"

8. 8verb

   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"

   Synonyms

   revolve
9. 9verb

   turn outward

   "These birds can splay out their toes"

   "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"

   Synonyms

   splay
10. 10verb

    cause to turn on an axis or center

    "Rotate the handle"

    Synonyms

    circumvolve
11. 11verb

    exchange on a regular basis

    "We rotate the lead soprano every night"