1. Adjective
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. Verb
To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
3. Verb
To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
4. Verb
To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
5. Verb
To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
6. Verb
exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"
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