Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To turn around on an axis or center. synonym: turn.
- intransitive verb To proceed in sequence; take turns or alternate.
- intransitive verb To cause to turn on an axis or center.
- intransitive verb To plant or grow (crops) in a fixed order of succession.
- intransitive verb To cause to alternate or proceed in sequence.
- adjective Having radiating parts; wheel-shaped.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To revolve or move round a center or axis; turn in a circle, as or like a wheel; have a continuous circular motion.
- To turn in a curve upon a center or support; have a revolving motion from side to side or up and down; specifically, in anatomy, to be rotated; execute one or any of the movements of rotation.
- To go round in succession, as in or among a revolving or a repeating series; alternate serially; especially, to act or pass in rotation, as a set of office-holders or an office.
- To cause to revolve upon an axis or upon a support; give a circular or curvilinear movement to; turn in a curve: as, to rotate a cylinder by hand; to rotate the head or the eyes.
- To move or change about in a series or in rotation; cause to succeed in a serial or recurrent order: as, to
rotate certain men in the tenure of an office. - In botany, wheel-shaped; spreading out nearly flat like a wheel: as, the limb of a rotate corolla, calyx, etc.: usually applied to a gamopetalous corolla with a short tube.
- In zoology, wheel-shaped; rotiform; specifically, in entomology, noting hairs, spines, etc., when they form a ring around any organ or part, projecting at right angles to the axis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
- intransitive verb To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn.
- intransitive verb To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
- intransitive verb colloq. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
- adjective Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive to
spin ,turn , orrevolve . - verb intransitive to
advance through asequence ; totake turns . - verb intransitive, of aircraft to lift the nose, just prior to
takeoff . - verb transitive to spin, turn, or revolve something.
- verb transitive to advance something through a sequence.
- verb transitive to
replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first. - verb transitive, of crops to grow or plant in a certain order.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb turn on or around an axis or a center
- verb turn outward
- verb exchange on a regular basis
- verb cause to turn on an axis or center
- verb plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession
- verb perform a job or duty on a rotating basis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This only happens when I call the rotate () function and then call a click event on $ ( '#group1. slidernav a').
WebDeveloper.com 2010
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That is much faster than most airplanes will, indeed -- the speed that they will attain to, what's known as rotate, meaning lifting the front end of the airplane off its nose gear and then get into the air.
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The Security Council, the only U.N. body with power to enforce its decisions militarily or economically, has five permanent members - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - and 10 non-permanent members whose terms rotate every two years.
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In another group, represented by _Opuntia_ (fig. 1), the flowers are rotate, that is to say, the long tube is replaced by a very short one.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Obviously the result would be the same if the magnet were stationary and the coils should rotate, which is the construction of more modern devices.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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Those that match are the elements that we want to progressively enhance, so we execute a function called rotate on each; note that jQuery applies behaviour to sets of results, so we could match zero, one, or hundreds of
Site Home MikeOrmond 2011
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They are very clever in their rotation and they have the ability to rotate, which is kind of lucky.
Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines Chris Pike 2010
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They are very clever in their rotation and they have the ability to rotate, which is kind of lucky.
Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines Chris Pike 2010
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Mr. Boutros-Ghali said IMF members are coalescing around a European plan to "rotate" the heads of the multination constituencies, so that the Europeans take a secondary role.
IMF Meeting Fails to Resolve Conflict Over Currencies Bob Davis 2010
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Another cool widget presents all important contacts on a virtual Ferris wheel that you can "rotate" by swiping your finger up or down.
First look: Samsung's Galaxy S phones look like star performers 2010
reesetee commented on the word rotate
Also an adjective: shaped like a wheel.
November 14, 2007