Definition of rotate

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Rotate (v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office..

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Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office..
Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve..
Rotated :: Rotated (imp. & p. p.) of Rotat.
Photodrome :: Photodrome (n.) An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction..
Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
Groomer :: Groomer (n.) One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses..
Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top..
Maltose :: Maltose (n.) A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power..
Whirl :: Whirl (v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate..
Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle..
Water Wheel :: Water wheel () Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex wheel, turbine wheel, etc..
Rotated :: Rotated (a.) Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate..
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated..
Revolve :: Revolve (v. i.) To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense..
Circumrotate :: Circumrotate (v. t. & i.) To rotate about.
Whirl :: Whirl (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
Dextrally :: Dextrally (adv.) Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally..
Rotator :: Rotator (n.) that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis..
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