rotate
UK/ɹəʊˈteɪt//ˈɹoʊ.teɪt/
rotate verb: to spin, turn, or revolve.
Verb
rotate (third-person singular simple present rotates, present participle rotating, simple past and past participle rotated)
- To spin, turn, or revolve.
- He rotated in his chair to face me.
- The earth rotates.
- To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
- The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
- To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
- The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
- To spin, turn, or revolve something.
- Rotate the dial to the left.
- To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
- 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.1975, “Architectural Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 32, page 112
- 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.
- To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
Adjective
rotate (not comparable)
- Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
- a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla
rotate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
rotate in Hindi
- to rotate, spin
- घूमना ghūmnā
rotate in Tamil
- to rotate, circulate, turn around, revolve, spin whirl
- சுற்று cuṟṟu
rotate in Marathi
- to rotate
- फिरवणे phiravṇe
rotate in Urdu
- گھومنا, گھمانا
More languagesFewer languages
- rotate in Bengali
- ঘুরানো, আবর্তিত করা
- rotate in Telugu
- భ్రమించు bhramiñcu, పరిభ్రమించు paribhramiñcu
- rotate in Malayalam
- തിരിയുക tiriyuka, കറങ്ങുക kaṟaṅṅuka, തിരിക്കുക tirikkuka, കറക്കുക kaṟakkuka
- rotate in Kannada
- ಸುತ್ತಿಸು, ಉರುಳಿಸು, ತಿರುಗಿಸು, ಪಾರುಂಬಳೆದಿರುಪು
- rotate in Punjabi
- گھمنا ghummṇā
- rotate in Gujarati
- ફેરવો, ફેરવવું
- rotate in Odia
- ଘୂର୍ଣ୍ଣନ କରନ୍ତୁ
- rotate in Sanskrit
- मथ् math
- rotate in Pashto
- تاوول tāwawəl, څرخول carkhawəl
- rotate in Arabic
- أَدَارَ ʔadāra
- rotate in Persian
- چرخیدن čarxīdan
- rotate in Thai
- หมุน mǔn, หัน hǎn
Examples of rotate in a sentence
- I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.
- Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.
- A cylinder is a solid of revolution generated by rotating a rectangle about one of its axes.
Synonyms of rotate
Forms of rotate
| third-person singular present | rotates |
|---|---|
| present participle | rotating |
| past participle | rotated |
| past | rotated |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | rotatest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | rotatedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | rotateth |
Origin of rotate
Borrowed from Latin rotātus, perfect passive participle of rotō (“revolve”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from rota (“wheel”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Words formed from rotate
Words that rhyme with rotate
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
- crate
Questions about rotate
- What does rotate mean?
- Rotate means to spin, turn, or revolve.
- What is rotate in Hindi?
- Rotate in Hindi is घूमना (ghūmnā). See Rotate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is rotate?
- Rotate can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce rotate?
- Rotate is pronounced /ɹəʊˈteɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of rotate?
- The past tense of rotate is rotated.
Words near rotate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rotate (page history and authors); घूमना (Hindi) (page history and authors); சுற்று (Tamil) (page history and authors); फिरवणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); rotate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rotate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rotate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); گھمنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); rotate (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rotate (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); मथ् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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