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uk/rəʊˈteɪt/us/ˈroʊ.teɪt/[ I or T ] to turn or cause something to turn in a circle, especially around a fixed point:
Rotate the handle by 180° to open the door.
The wheel rotates around an axle.
The satellite slowly rotates as it circles the earth.
[ I or T ] If a job rotates or if a group of people rotate their jobs, the jobs are done at different times by different people.
[ T ] When farmers rotate crops, they regularly change which crops they grow in a particular field.
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Revolving, rotating and spinning
- centrifugal
- centripetal
- Foucault pendulum
- go round
- gyrate
- in rotation idiom
- rev
- rotation
- round and round idiom
- rpm
- sidespin
- span
- spin
- spin (sb) around
- swing
- swing (sth/sb) around
- tailspin
- twiddle
- wheel
- wheel round
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