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- 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.
- Rotate - v. i. - To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
- Rotate - v. i. - To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
- Rotate - v. i. - To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
- 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.
- Rotated - imp. & p. p. - of Rotate
- Rotated - a. - Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.
- Whirl - v. t. - To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - 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.
- Whirl - v. i. - To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
- Rotate - v. i. - To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
- Water wheel - - Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex wheel, turbine wheel, etc.
- Circumrotate - v. t. & i. - To rotate about.