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Definition of Rotate

Rotate

  1. 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.
  2. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
  3. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
  4. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
  5. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.

Rotate Quotations

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.
Robert Shea

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
Norman Ralph Augustine

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
Candace Bushnell

I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.
Patrick Duffy

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.
Robert Barany
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Rotate Translations

rotate in German is drehen, rotieren, rotieren, rotiere
rotate in Italian is rotare
rotate in Spanish is rodar, rotar
rotate in Swedish is rotera

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