Rotate

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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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