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rotate
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rotate \Ro"tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rotated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rotating .] To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
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" Rotate " is a song by American East Coast hip hop duo Capone-N-Noreaga , released as the lead single from their third studio album Channel 10 . The song features fellow American rappers Busta Rhymes and Ron Browz and was produced by the latter. It is ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire" [syn: revolve , go around ] exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night" cause to turn on an axis or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, intransitive, back-formation from rotation . Transitive sense from 1823. Related: Rotated ; rotating . Rotator "muscle which allows a part to be moved circularly" is recorded from 1670s.
Usage examples of rotate.
The screw aft of the rudder, a moment before pumping water forward, slowed, stopped and began rotating in the opposite direction, now pumping water aft, thrusting the ship forward.
Mark commanded the map to rotate in model space to align the viewpoint with his own current position.
But now, with the islands rotating - no matter how slowly - even that could not be relied upon, and the alongshore races were alarmingly unpredictable.
Pumps had no rotating parts and pushed the coolant through the loops using magnetism.
She then applied the plane generated by taking the seventh angle cosecant of a trisected cone that had been created from a five dimensionally rotated equilateral right triangle-impossible without awareness of ireality mathematics-and then combined the resulting geometric paradox to the chronowarp.
Sun, like all other visible stars, is gaseous and not a solid, it rotates on its axis at sharply different speeds, depending on how far from the solar equator a spot is.
The most complex of all the movements performed by sleeping plants, is that when leaves or leaflets, after describing in the daytime several vertically directed ellipses, rotate greatly on their axes in the evening, by which twisting movement they occupy a wholly different position at night to what they do during the day.
She walked in a circle around Lady Sunshine, while Lady Sunshine watched her with a wary rotating eye, ready to lurch if the dryad attempted to move in her direction.
He was coming up beneath its tail, and with luck the empennage would shield him from the rotating radar antenna.
She certainly preferred a letter to a mistimed telephone call, for the family, when far away as they were all far away now, were not at all adept at calculating the difference in hours between their time zones and her own-even when earlier, holding and rotating apples plucked from the epergne, they attempted to work out which way it was the globe turned and whether they should add or subtract a three or a six or a twelve from the local time told on their wristwatch faces.
If you go once around the epicycle while the deferent rotates once, you trace out the ellipse.
Inside the ergosphere we would be constrained to rotate with the hole.
The ergosphere was a rotating fat waist in he diagram, but ahead bulged something spitting light like an angry, etting sun.
Interestingly, they did not snap, but rotated rapidly around a central esophageal axis.
The huge fairwater planes on the sail, each the size of a garage door, were rotated so they pointed straight up and down to clear the ice.