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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rotātus, perfect passive participle of rotō (“revolve”), from rota (“wheel”).
Pronunciation
Verb
rotate (third-person singular simple present rotates, present participle rotating, simple past and past participle rotated)
- (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
He rotated in his chair to face me.
The earth rotates.
- (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
- (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
- (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
Rotate the dial to the left.
- (transitive) To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
1975, “Architectural Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 32, page 112:I've always admired the Japanese point of view that holds it best not to have a great number of objects around at one time but to rotate possessions — and display them with great simplicity.
- (transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.
- (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
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Translations
to spin, turn, or revolve
- Armenian: պտտվել (hy) (pttvel)
- Azerbaijani: fırlanmaq (az)
- Belarusian: абарача́цца impf (abaračácca), абараці́цца pf (abaracícca), абярну́цца pf (abjarnúcca)
- Bulgarian: въртя се (vǎrtja se)
- Cherokee: ᎠᏗᏆᎸᏕᏲᎭ (adiqualvdeyoha)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 旋转 (zh),转动 (zh)
- Czech: otočit (cs)
- Dutch: roteren (nl), ronddraaien (nl)
- Finnish: pyöriä (fi), pyörittää (fi), kääntyä (fi)
- French: tourner (fr), rotationner (fr), rotater (fr)
- Galician: xirar (gl)
- German: sich drehen (de), rotieren (de)
- Greek: περιστρέφομαι (el) (peristréfomai)
- Hungarian: pörög (hu), forog (hu)
- Ingrian: pööriä
- Italian: ruotare (it)
- Japanese: 回る (ja) (mawaru)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: چەرخاندن (çerxandin), سوراندن (surandin)
- Kyrgyz: айлануу (ky) (aylanuu)
- Malayalam: തിരിയുക (ml) (tiriyuka), കറങ്ങുക (ml) (kaṟaṅṅuka)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: rotere
- Nynorsk: rotere
- Pashto: تاوول (ps) (tāwawəl), څرخول (carkhawəl)
- Persian: چرخیدن (fa) (čarxīdan)
- Polish: obrócić się (pl) pf, obracać się (pl) impf
- Portuguese: rotar (pt), girar (pt), (Brazil) rotacionar, rodar (pt)
- Quechua: muyuy
- Romanian: roti (ro)
- Russian: враща́ться (ru) impf (vraščátʹsja), верте́ться (ru) impf (vertétʹsja), крути́ться (ru) impf (krutítʹsja)
- Spanish: girar (es)
- Swedish: rotera (sv)
- Telugu: భ్రమించు (te) (bhramiñcu), పరిభ్రమించు (te) (paribhramiñcu)
- Thai: หมุน (th) (mǔn), หัน (th) (hǎn)
- White Hmong: tig
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to advance through a sequence; to take turns
to spin, turn, or revolve something
- Arabic: أَدَارَ (ʔadāra)
- Armenian: պտտել (hy) (pttel)
- Bulgarian: въртя (bg) (vǎrtja)
- Finnish: kääntää (fi)
- French: faire tourner
- Greek: περιστρέφω (el) (peristréfo)
- Hungarian: forgat (hu), pörget (hu)
- Japanese: 回る (ja) (mawaru)
- Malayalam: തിരിക്കുക (ml) (tirikkuka), കറക്കുക (ml) (kaṟakkuka)
- Polish: obrócić (pl) pf, obracać (pl) impf
- Portuguese: rotar (pt), girar (pt), (Brazil) rotacionar, rodar (pt)
- Russian: враща́ть (ru) impf (vraščátʹ), верте́ть (ru) impf (vertétʹ), крути́ть (ru) impf (krutítʹ)
- Spanish: (please verify) hacer rodar, (please verify) girar (es)
- Swedish: vända (sv)
- Telugu: (please verify) తిప్పు (te) (tippu)
- Thai: หมุน (th) (mǔn), หัน (th) (hǎn)
- White Hmong: tig
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to advance something through a sequence
to replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones
to change which tire is on each corner of the car, so that they wear evenly
Translations to be checked
Adjective
rotate (not comparable)
- Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla
Translations
wheel-shaped
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 輪狀/轮状 (zh) (lúnzhuàng)
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
rotate
- inflection of rotare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
rotate f pl
- feminine plural of rotato
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
rotāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of rotō
Spanish
Verb
rotate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of rotar combined with te