rotate

About 3.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To spin, turn, or revolve.

   He rotated in his chair to face me.

2. verb To advance through a sequence; to take turns.

   The nurses' shifts rotate each week.

3. verb To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.

   The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.

4. verb To spin, turn, or revolve something.

   Rotate the dial to the left.

5. verb To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
6. verb 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.

7. verb To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
8. adjective Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

   a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla

Similar words

go around revolve rotation rotational slue turn tilt spinning counterclockwise flip

Often followed by

the in about it and at around with on

Word family

rotatable rotated rotates rotating