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English to English adjective
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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. |  | source: webster1913 verb
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turn on or around an axis or a center | | Example: The Earth revolves around the Sun
The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire
source: wordnet30
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exchange on a regular basis | | Example: We rotate the lead soprano every night
source: wordnet30
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perform a job or duty on a rotating basis | | Example: Interns have to rotate for a few months
source: wordnet30
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cause to turn on an axis or center | | Example: Rotate the handle
source: wordnet30
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turn outward | | Example: These birds can splay out their toes
ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees
source: wordnet30
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plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession | | Example: We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil
source: wordnet30
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To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve. | | source: webster1913
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To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle. | | source: webster1913
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