rotate
To spin, turn, or revolve.
Example
“He rotated in his chair to face me.”
Other meanings
To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
“The nurses' shifts rotate each week.”
To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
“The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.”
Synonyms
- revolve
- go around
Related words
- rerotate
- clinorotating
- autorotate
- birotate
- circumrotate
- corotate
- counterrotate
- derotate
- hyperrotate
- misrotate
- overrotate
- pseudorotate
Word history
From Latin "rotātus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “rotate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.