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"
- synonyms: circumvolve
- Turn outward.
- usage: "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
- synonyms: turn out, splay, spread out
- Plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession.
- usage: "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
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