Thesaurus: rotate

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1. a. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped">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. v. i. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
3. v. i. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
4. v. i. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
5. v. i. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
6. v. turn on or around an axis or a center
7. v. exchange on a regular basis
8. v. perform a job or duty on a rotating basis
9. v. cause to turn on an axis or center
10. v. turn outward
11. v. plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession
12. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped">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. 1. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve. 2. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office. 1. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle. 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, were rotated out of office." Harper's Mag.