rotate

present singular third person rotates · participle present rotating · participle past rotated · past rotated · first person past singular rotated · archaic present second person singular rotatest · past second person singular rotated · archaic past second person singular rotatedst · present singular third person rotates · archaic present singular third person rotateth · past singular third person rotated · past plural rotated · past subjunctive rotated · participle present rotating · participle past rotated

1. intransitiveTo spin, turn, or revolve.

   The earth rotates.

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   He rotated in his chair to face me.

2. intransitiveTo advance through a sequence; to take turns.

   The nurses' shifts rotate each week.

3. intransitiveTo lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.

   The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.

4. transitiveTo spin, turn, or revolve something.

   Rotate the dial to the left.

5. transitiveTo advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.

   I've always admired the Japanese point of view that holds it best not to have a great number of objects around at one time but to rotate possessions — and display them with great simplicity.

   1975, “Architectural Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 32, page 112

6. transitiveTo replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.

   The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.

7. transitiveTo grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.

1. not comparableHaving the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

   a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla