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Rotate   /rˈoʊtˌeɪt/   Listen
Rotate

verb
(past & past part. rotated; pres. part. rotating)
1.
Turn on or around an axis or a center.  Synonyms: go around, revolve.  "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
2.
Exchange on a regular basis.
3.
Perform a job or duty on a rotating basis.
4.
Cause to turn on an axis or center.  Synonym: circumvolve.
5.
Turn outward.  Synonyms: splay, spread out, turn out.  "Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
6.
Plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession.





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"Rotate" Quotes from Famous Books



... not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously. It was seething in its depths. Historic figures were not borne by the waves from one shore to another as before. They now seemed to rotate on one spot. The historical figures at the head of armies, who formerly reflected the movement of the masses by ordering wars, campaigns, and battles, now reflected the restless movement by political and ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... George. "The only suggestion I have to make is that we rotate the hours, if we keep ...
— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay
... was told that a field of a special nature could be generated so as to make the individual lems in the particles of matter rotate in a special way that would introduce a 'polarization field', as Duvall called it. This field seems to be connected somehow with gravity, but Busch wasn't ...
— The Untouchable • Stephen A. Kallis
... above the waist, plus some walking each day. All should take enough exercise to keep the spine straight and pliable. Bending exercises are good for this purpose, keeping the knees straight and touching the floor with the fingers. Then bend backward as far as possible. Then with hands on the hips rotate the ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker
... say, the wheel F, which now evidently has a motion of circular translation, does not rotate at all about its axis during the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various


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