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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



... Sun, and consequently included in the inner group, are of more moderate size, denser, rotate more slowly and with nearly equal velocity (their periods of revolution being almost all about 24 hours), are less compressed at the poles, and with the exception of one, are without satellites. The exterior ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt

... behavior of the common mouse in the cyclostat is that of the dancer. As the cylinder begins to rotate the dancer runs about as usual in circles, zigzags, and figure-eights. As the speed becomes greater it naturally becomes increasingly difficult for the mouse to do this, but it shows neither discomfort nor fear, as does the common mouse. Finally the centrifugal force ...
— The Dancing Mouse - A Study in Animal Behavior • Robert M. Yerkes

... Outside, the broken ground fell away to space and the stars. The ovoid that was the ship hung against them, lit by the hidden sun, a giant even at her distance but dwarfed by the balloon she towed. As that bubble tried ponderously to rotate, rainbow gleams ran across it, hiding and then revealing the constellations. Here, on the asteroid's axis, there was no weight, and one moved with underwater smoothness, as if disembodied. "Oh, a fairy ...
— Industrial Revolution • Poul William Anderson

... the Sun, and consequently included in the inner group, are of more moderate size, denser, rotate more slowly and with nearly equal velocity (their periods of revolution being almost all about 24 hours), are less compressed at the poles, and with the exception of one, are without satellites. The exterior planets, which are further removed ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt

... assist it to get out of the place it has occupied so long. You must begin first to rotate or roll the placenta first one way and then another, up, down and across the vagina, by gently pulling the cord. Look out or you will pull the cord loose from the placenta; then you will have made your first blunder,—no cord to pull placenta with, and the mother bleeding and faint ...
— Philosophy of Osteopathy • Andrew T. Still


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