Rotate(a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
Rotate(v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
Rotate(v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
Rotate(v. i.) To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
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.
Rotated(a.) Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.
Rotated(imp. & p. p.) of Rotate
Rotating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rotate
Rotation(a.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
Rotation(n.) The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.
Rotation(n.) Any return or succesion in a series.
Rotative(a.) turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
Rotator(n.) that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
Rotator(n.) A revolving reverberatory furnace.
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