Rotate

Verb

 * 1)  to spin, turn, or revolve.
 * He rotated in his chair to face me.
 * 1)  to advance through a sequence; to take turns.
 * The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
 * 1)  to lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
 * The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
 * 1)  to spin, turn, or revolve something.
 * Rotate the dial to the left.
 * 1)  to advance something through a sequence.
 * 2)  to replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
 * The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.
 * 1)  to grow or plant in a certain order.

Synonyms

 * (to turn) revolve
 * (to make turn) circumvolve

Thesaurus
advance, alternate, ascend, back, back up, bandy, be here again, become airborne, budge, change, change place, circle, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, clear, climb, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come up again, convert, crank, cycle, descend, ebb, ensue, evert, exchange, flow, fly aloft, follow, get over, go, go around, go round, go sideways, gyrate, gyre, interchange, intermit, introvert, intussuscept, invaginate, inverse, invert, jump off, leave the ground, mount, move, move over, oscillate, pirouette, pivot, plunge, progress, pronate, pulsate, pulse, reappear, recur, reel, regress, relieve, reoccur, repeat, resupinate, retrogress, return, reverse, revolve, rise, roll, roll around, round, run, screw, shift, sink, soar, spell, spin, stir, stream, subside, succeed, supinate, swap, swing, switch, swivel, take off, take turns, taxi, transpose, travel, turn, turn a pirouette, turn about, turn around, turn down, turn in, turn inside out, turn out, turn over, turn round, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn upside down, twirl, twist, undulate, wamble, wane, wheel, wheel around, whirl, wind

Etymology
From rotatus:, perfect passive participle of roto:, from rota:.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: sich drehen, rotieren
 * Greek:


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Pashto: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: భ్రమించు (bhraminchu), పరిభ్రమించు (paribhraminchu)


 * Finnish:


 * Greek:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * : hacer rodar, girar
 * : తిప్పు (tippu)

Derived terms

 * rotation
 * rotatable

Related terms

 * rota

Verb
rotate



Anagrams

 * attero, attore, ettaro, oretta, teatro