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rotate
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[ verb ] turn on or around an axis or a center
Examples "The Earth revolves around the Sun" "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire" Used in print (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)If the vertex is at **f , and if the interior of C is on the left as one moves in the direction of increasing t , then every such corner can be found from the curve obtained by rotating C clockwise through 90 ` about the vertex . But **f is just the curve **f translated without rotation through a small arc , for **f is always obtained by rotating C through exactly 90 ` . (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)Hal knew that when that side of Earth rotated into the night zone , Sigmen_City would blaze_out into space . |
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[ verb ] exchange on a regular basis
Examples "We rotate the lead soprano every night" Used in print (Allen R. Bosworth, The Crows of Edwina Hill....)Ships from the West_Coast rotated on six-month tours_of_duty with the Seventh_Fleet , and Yokosuka was the Seventh_Fleet 's principal port for maintenance , upkeep and shore liberty . |
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[ verb ] (work) perform a job or duty on a rotating basis
Examples "Interns have to rotate for a few months" Used in print (The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)There should be a task for everyone and these tasks should be rotated . Related terms |
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[ verb ] plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession
Examples "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil" Related terms |
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[ verb ] turn outward
Synonyms Examples "These birds can splay out their toes" "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" |
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