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Meaning of rotate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  rotate
      v 1: turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves
           around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the
           fire" [syn: {revolve}, {go around}, {rotate}]
      2: exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano
         every night"
      3: perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to
         rotate for a few months"
      4: cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle" [syn:
         {rotate}, {circumvolve}]
      5: turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet
         dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" [syn: {turn
         out}, {splay}, {spread out}, {rotate}]
      6: plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We
         rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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