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Rotate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To turn around on an axis or center.

verb-intransitive. To proceed in sequence; take turns or alternate: Interns will rotate through the various departments.

v. To cause to turn on an axis or center. See Synonyms at turn.

v. To plant or grow (crops) in a fixed order of succession.

v. To cause to alternate or proceed in sequence: The coach rotates her players frequently near the end of the game.

adj. Having radiating parts; wheel-shaped.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to spin, turn, or revolve.

v. to advance through a sequence; to take turns.

v. to lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.

v. to spin, turn, or revolve something.

v. to advance something through a sequence.

v. to replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.

v. to grow or plant in a certain order.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped

verb-intransitive. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.

verb-intransitive. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn.

verb-intransitive. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.

verb-intransitive. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To revolve or move round a center or axis; turn in a circle, as or like a wheel; have a continuous circular motion.

To turn in a curve upon a center or support; have a revolving motion from side to side or up and down; specifically, in anatomy, to be rotated; execute one or any of the movements of rotation.

To go round in succession, as in or among a revolving or a repeating series; alternate serially; especially, to act or pass in rotation, as a set of office-holders or an office.

To cause to revolve upon an axis or upon a support; give a circular or curvilinear movement to; turn in a curve: as, to rotate a cylinder by hand; to rotate the head or the eyes.

To move or change about in a series or in rotation; cause to succeed in a serial or recurrent order: as, to rotate certain men in the tenure of an office.

In botany, wheel-shaped; spreading out nearly flat like a wheel: as, the limb of a rotate corolla, calyx, etc.: usually applied to a gamopetalous corolla with a short tube.

In zoology, wheel-shaped; rotiform; specifically, in entomology, noting hairs, spines, etc., when they form a ring around any organ or part, projecting at right angles to the axis.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. turn on or around an axis or a center

v. turn outward

v. exchange on a regular basis

v. cause to turn on an axis or center

v. plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession

v. perform a job or duty on a rotating basis

Word Usage

"This only happens when I call the rotate () function and then call a click event on $ ( '#group1. slidernav a')."

Verb Form

rotated rotates rotating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

turn alternate grow serve

Cross Reference

alternate rotating fires

Form

rotated rotating rotation rotatable

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

wheel-shaped revolve