ROTATE

a. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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.

2.
v.

To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.

3.
v.

To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.

4.
v.

To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.

5.
v.

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.


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