meaning of rotate
1. 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.
2. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
3. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
4. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
5. To cause to succeed in turn; esp. , to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
6. plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the
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