rotate

Verb

Verb Forms: rotated, rotating, rotates

• To turn around a central axis; to alternate in a sequence.
• turn on or around an axis or a center
  • "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
• 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"
• turn outward
  • "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
• plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession
  • "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
• To spin, turn, or revolve.
• To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
• To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
• To spin, turn, or revolve something.
• To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
• To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
• To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.

Adj

• Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

Examples

• a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla
• He rotated in his chair to face me.
• Rotate the dial to the left.
• The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
• The earth rotates.
• The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
• The player chose to ROTATE his tiles, hoping a new perspective would reveal a hidden word.
• The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.

Synonyms

circumvolve, go around, revolve, splay, spread out, turn out

Related Words

crop-rotate, rota