rotate

rotate
Synonyms and related words:
advance, alternate, ascend, back, back up, bandy, be here again, become airborne, budge, change, change place, circle, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, clear, climb, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come up again, convert, crank, cycle, descend, ebb, ensue, evert, exchange, flow, fly aloft, follow, get over, go, go around, go round, go sideways, gyrate, gyre, interchange, intermit, introvert, intussuscept, invaginate, inverse, invert, jump off, leave the ground, mount, move, move over, oscillate, pirouette, pivot, plunge, progress, pronate, pulsate, pulse, reappear, recur, reel, regress, relieve, reoccur, repeat, resupinate, retrogress, return, reverse, revolve, rise, roll, roll around, round, run, screw, shift, sink, soar, spell, spin, stir, stream, subside, succeed, supinate, swap, swing, switch, swivel, take off, take turns, taxi, transpose, travel, turn, turn a pirouette, turn about, turn around, turn down, turn in, turn inside out, turn out, turn over, turn round, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn upside down, twirl, twist, undulate, wamble, wane, wheel, wheel around, whirl, wind

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • rotate — ro‧tate [rəʊˈteɪt ǁ ˈroʊteɪt] verb [intransitive, transitive] if a job rotates, or if people rotate jobs, they each do the jobs for a fixed period of time, one after the other: • Within each section of the company, workers are now rotated from… …   Financial and business terms

  • rotate — 1 *turn, revolve, gyrate, circle, spin, twirl, whirl, wheel, eddy, swirl, pirouette 2 Rotate, alternate can both mean to succeed or cause to succeed each other in turn. Rotate may be used in reference to two or more persons or things; it implies… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Rotate — Ro tate, a. [L. rotatus, p. p. of rotare to turn round like a wheel, fr. rota wheel. See {Rotary}, and cf. {Roue}.] Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Rotate — Ro tate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rotated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rotating}.] 1. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve. [1913 Webster] 2. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rotate — [v1] go around in circle circle, circumduct, circumvolve, gyrate, gyre, move, pirouette, pivot, reel, revolve, roll, spin, swivel, troll, trundle, turn, twirl, twist, waltz, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirr; concepts 147,738 rotate [v2] alternate… …   New thesaurus

  • rotate — [rō′tāt΄, rō tāt′] vi., vt. rotated, rotating [< L rotatus, pp. of rotare, to turn < rota, wheel: see ROLL] 1. to turn around or cause to turn around a center point or axis; revolve 2. to go or cause to go in a regular and recurring… …   English World dictionary

  • Rotate — Ro tate, v. i. 1. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office. [Colloq.] Both, after a brief service,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rotate — index oscillate, vary Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • rotate —   [engl.], rotieren …   Universal-Lexikon

  • rotate — (v.) 1794, back formation from ROTATION (Cf. rotation). Related: Rotated; rotating …   Etymology dictionary

  • rotate — ► VERB 1) move in a circle round an axis. 2) move or pass on in a regularly recurring order or succession. 3) grow (different crops) in succession on a particular piece of land. DERIVATIVES rotatable adjective rotatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin… …   English terms dictionary

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