What is the meaning of rotate?

verb

  • Turn on or around an axis or a center.
    • usage: "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
  • Exchange on a regular basis.
    • usage: "We rotate the lead soprano every night"
  • Perform a job or duty on a rotating basis.
    • usage: "Interns have to rotate for a few months"
  • Cause to turn on an axis or center.
    • usage: "Rotate the handle"
  • Turn outward.
    • usage: "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
  • Plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession.
    • usage: "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
9
 
|15 years ago|2.2k views|share |citing 
APAWordNet. (2010). rotate. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/rotate/definitions/1307543
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "rotate" http://smartdefine.org/rotate/definitions/1307543 (accessed September 20, 2026).
HarvardWordNet 2010, rotate, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/rotate/definitions/1307543>.
MLAWordNet. "rotate" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/rotate/definitions/1307543>
{ class="autoclick" }next definition (/)