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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rotātus, perfect passive participle of rotō (“revolve”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from rota (“wheel”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
enPR: rōtāt'
enPR: rō'tāt
Verb
rotate (third-person singular simple present rotates, present participle rotating, simple past and past participle rotated)
- (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
- He rotated in his chair to face me.
- The earth rotates.
- (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
- The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
- (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
- The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
- (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
- Rotate the dial to the left.
- (transitive) To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
- 1975, “Architectural Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 32, page 112:
- I've always admired the Japanese point of view that holds it best not to have a great number of objects around at one time but to rotate possessions — and display them with great simplicity.
- (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.
- (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
Usage notes
"Rotate about" implies that the object is spinning in place (i.e. the defined axis passes through through some internal point of the object), while "rotate around" implies that the object is orbiting an external point.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (to turn) revolve
- (to make turn) circumvolve
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Finnish: rotatoida
Translations
to spin, turn, or revolve
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to advance through a sequence; to take turns
to spin, turn, or revolve something
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to advance something through a sequence
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to replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones
to change which tire is on each corner of the car, so that they wear evenly
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Adjective
rotate (not comparable)
- Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
- a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla
Derived terms
Translations
wheel-shaped
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
rotate
- inflection of rotare:
Etymology 2
Participle
rotate f pl
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
rotāte
Spanish
Verb
rotate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of rotar combined with te
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