rotate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rotate	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for rotate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rotate v 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" Synonym(s): revolve, go around, rotate 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" cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle" Synonym(s): rotate, circumvolve turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" Synonym(s): turn out, splay, spread out, rotate plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rotate \Ro"tate\, a. [L. rotatus, p. p. of rotare to turn round like a wheel, fr. rota wheel. See {Rotary}, and cf. {Roue}.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rotate \Ro"tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rotated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rotating}.] 1. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve. 2. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rotate \Ro"tate\, v. i. 1. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle. 2. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office. [Colloq.] [bd]Both, after a brief service, were rotated out of office.[b8] --Harper's Mag.