rotate
verb
1 rotate
Turn on or around an axis or a center:
— The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire.
Roget 312: rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve†; circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle, ... show more
2 rotate
Exchange on a regular basis.
3 rotate
Perform a job or duty on a rotating basis.
4 rotate
Cause to turn on an axis or center:
— Rotate the handle.
synonym: circumvolve.
5 rotate
Turn outward:
— Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees.
synonyms: splay, spread out, turn out.
6 rotate
Plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession.
Moby 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 ... show more.
rotating
adjective
Roget 312: rotating etc. v.; rotary, rotary; circumrotatory†, trochilic†, vertiginous, gyratory; vortical, vorticose†.
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