rotate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotātus, perfect passive participle of rotō (“revolve”), from rota (“wheel”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) enPR: rōtāt', IPA(key): /ɹəʊˈteɪt/
  • (US) enPR: rō'tāt, IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊteɪt/
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  • Rhymes: (UK) -eɪt

Verb

rotate (third-person singular simple present rotates, present participle rotating, simple past and past participle rotated)

  1. (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
    He rotated in his chair to face me.
    The earth rotates.
  2. (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
    The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
  3. (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
    The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
  4. (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
    Rotate the dial to the left.
  5. (transitive) To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
    • 1975, “Architectural Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 32, page 112:
      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.
  6. (transitive) To 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. (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.

Conjugation
Conjugation of rotate
infinitive (to) rotate
present tense past tense
1st-person singular rotate rotated
2nd-person singular
3rd-person singular rotates
plural rotate
subjunctive rotate rotated
imperative rotate —
participles rotating rotated

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Finnish: rotatoida

Translations
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Adjective

rotate (not comparable)

  1. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
    a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla

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Italian

Verb

rotate

  1. inflection of rotare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

rotate f pl

  1. feminine plural of rotato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

rotāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of rotō

Spanish

Verb

rotate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of rotar combined with te
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