rotate
rotate is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- adjective. 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.
- intransitive verb. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
- intransitive verb. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
- intransitive verb. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
- intransitive verb. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
- verb. plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession
"We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
- verb. perform a job or duty on a rotating basis
"Interns have to rotate for a few months"
- 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"
- verb. turn outward
"These birds can splay out their toes"
"ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
- verb. cause to turn on an axis or center
"Rotate the handle"
- verb. exchange on a regular basis
"We rotate the lead soprano every night"
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