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verb

Rotate v. i. (past & past part. rotated; pres. part. rotating)

To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.

To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.

Rotate v. i.

To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.

To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office. (Colloq.) "Both, after a brief service, were rotated out of office."

adjective

Rotate adj. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.

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Etymology of 'Rotate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rotate" Quotes from Famous Books

... rigged a belt between the drill's motor and the sleeve of the female socket, the sleeve would rotate as if it were on ...

— Hanging by a Thread • Gordon Randall Garrett

... is worked by clockwork inclosed between two disks, and would rotate continuously were it not for the catch, G, working in and out of the cogs. Through this catch, G, the wheel is dependent on the movement of electro-magnet. This cogged wheel is a double one, consisting of two wheels coupled together, exactly similar one with the other, and so fixed that the cogs ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various

... early form, the magneto-generator consisted of the arrangement shown in Fig. 17, wherein a permanent magnet can rotate on an axis before an electromagnet having soft iron cores and a winding. Reversals of magnetism produce current in alternately reversing half-cycles, one complete rotation of the magnet producing one such ...

— Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 - A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. • Kempster Miller

... the speed of rotation, the less the pitch for a given aeroplane speed. Then, in order to secure a large pitch and consequently a good gap, the four-bladed propeller is usually geared to rotate at a lower speed than would be the case if directly attached to the ...

— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber

... that motives exist adequate to decide the will; even though it may not always be conscious of them. Science has proved that forces, sensible and occult, physical and metaphysical, simple and complex, surround, traverse, vibrate, rotate, repel, attract, without stop; that man's senses are conscious of few, and only in a partial degree; but that, from the beginning of organic existence, his consciousness has been induced, expanded, trained in the lines of his sensitiveness; and that the rise of his faculties from a lower ...

— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

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