Definitions for rotate

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rotate ro·tate

Spelling: [roh-teyt or, esp. British, roh-teyt]

IPA: /ˈroʊ teɪt or, esp. British, roʊˈteɪt/

Rotate is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in rotate (aeortt).

Definitions for rotate

adjective

1. wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to turn around an axis or center point; revolve.
2. to cause to go through a cycle of changes; cause to pass or follow in a fixed routine of succession:
3. to replace (a person, troops, etc.) by another or others, usually according to a schedule or plan.

verb (used without object)

1. to turn around on or as if on an axis.
2. to proceed in a fixed routine of succession:

Origin of rotate

1800-10; Latin rotātus (past participle of rotāre to cause to spin, roll, move in a circle), equivalent to rot(a) wheel + -ātus -ate^1<

Examples for rotate

Imagine a paddle-wheel placed in water and caused to rotate.

Cells work in isolation, rotate members every few months, and keep members ignorant of organizational levels above them.

When we came back, we were the second string and on a predictable calendar to rotate in and out of combat.

If it does not, rotate the tube, but still so that the flame plays in the nick.

You are not to rotate the object consciously or help it in any way.

rotate those chairs, and senators might rotate back to their states earlier than usual.

Each facility has a Rabbi, though some of the smaller ones have traveling Rabbis that rotate from joint to joint.

It would be necessary then that the ring-system should rotate around the planet.

It can move backwards or forwards on its own power, and the men operating it can rotate it this way or that.

If the tool be lightly held, it will be found that it tends to rotate by itself.