[
US
/ˈɹoʊˌteɪt/
]
[ UK /ɹəʊtˈeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɹəʊtˈeɪt/ ]
VERB
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turn on or around an axis or a center
The Earth revolves around the Sun
The Earth revolves around the Sun
The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire -
plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession
We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil -
exchange on a regular basis
We rotate the lead soprano every night -
perform a job or duty on a rotating basis
Interns have to rotate for a few months -
turn outward
These birds can splay out their toes
ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees -
cause to turn on an axis or center
Rotate the handle
How To Use rotate In A Sentence
- If the inducing angle is overestimated, the test line should be seen as parallel when it is actually rotated away from the nearby arm of the angle
- Another shows how the grebes' lobed feet travel in a nearly circular pattern when they dive underwater, with the toes folded and rotated to decrease water resistance on the backstroke.
- Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians.
- The discussion then went off on a tangent, to the question of how many spheres of equal size could rotate around a central ball of the same size.
- Rotate showy plants, such as orchids, begonias, and bromeliads, into your garden for color all year.
- The airy Atrium café is an ingenious use of ‘yard space’ and has become a fulcrum around which the centre rotates, serving affordable gourmet food cooked on the premises, prepared by top chefs.
- A whirling flash of sapphire suddenly rotated --- in a delirious foxtrot --- with Doc's own dizzy nimbus of gilded amber. BEHINDLINGS
- During the tour participants would rotate so that each day they rowed with a different crew.
- Most premium programmers offer a variety of multiplex channels on digital tiers to rotate their movie libraries, at no extra cost to the operator.
- They came to learn about the plane that could fly faster than a bullet, faster than the earth rotated.
