Definition of rotate

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Rotate (v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve..

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Rotiform :: Rotiform (a.) Same as Rotate.
Rotated :: Rotated (imp. & p. p.) of Rotat.
Rotated :: Rotated (a.) Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate..
Chromatoscope :: Chromatoscope (n.) A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars..
Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate..
Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top..
Maltose :: Maltose (n.) A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power..
Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office..
Revolve :: Revolve (v. i.) To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense..
Photodrome :: Photodrome (n.) An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction..
Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve..
Rundle :: Rundle (n.) Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan..
Whirl :: Whirl (v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
Levulose :: Levulose (n.) A sirupy variety of sugar, rarely obtained crystallized, occurring widely in honey, ripe fruits, etc., and hence called also fruit sugar. It is called levulose, because it rotates the plane of polarization to the left..
Whirl :: Whirl (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
Rote :: Rote (v. i.) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
Rotate :: Rotate (a.) 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..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
Dextrally :: Dextrally (adv.) Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally..
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated..
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