Synonyms of the word rotate


ROTATEALTERNATE - CIRCUMVOLVE - GROW - REVOLVE - SERVE - SPLAY - TURN

rotate

  • v. (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
  • v. (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
  • v. (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
  • v. (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
  • v. (transitive) To advance something through a sequence.
  • v. (transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older…
  • v. (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
  • adj. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

alternate

  • adj. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one…
  • adj. (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another…
  • adj. (US) Other; alternative.
  • adj. (botany) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects…
  • n. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
  • n. (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing…
  • n. (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
  • n. (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
  • n. (heraldry) Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
  • v. (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
  • v. (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed…
  • v. (intransitive) To vary by turns.
  • v. (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation);…

circumvolve

  • v. To revolve or move about.
  • v. (transitive) To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.

grow

  • v. (ergative) To become bigger.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
  • v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
  • v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

revolve

  • v. (intransitive) To orbit a central point.
  • v. To turn on an axis.
  • v. (intransitive) To recur in cycles.
  • v. (transitive) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

serve

  • n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
  • n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
  • v. (heading, personal) To provide a service.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
  • v. (heading) To be effective.
  • v. (heading, transitive, law) To deliver a document.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball,…
  • v. (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in military service.
  • v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
  • v. (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
  • v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing…

splay

  • v. To display; to spread.
  • v. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
  • v. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
  • v. (computing theory, transitive) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the…
  • adj. spread out; turned outward.
  • adj. flat and ungainly.
  • n. A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at…

turn

  • v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
  • v. (archaic) To translate.
  • n. A change of direction or orientation.
  • n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
  • n. A single loop of a coil.
  • n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  • n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
  • n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
  • n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
  • n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
  • n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
  • n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
  • n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
  • n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. A deed done to another.
  • n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
  • n. Character; personality; nature.
  • n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

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