[
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
- 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.
- The pronator radii teres, no longer opposed by the supinator brevis, had rotated the anterior fragment into complete pronation and fixed it there, while the supinator brevis, acting on the upper end, had rotated that fragment in an opposite direction and held it fixed until bony union at the point of fracture had taken place. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
- Physical and cryptographic keys are regularly rotated to limit the duration of exposure in case of a breach.