different between rotate vs disrotatory
rotate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rot?tus, perfect passive participle of rot? (“revolve”), from rota (“wheel”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: r?t?t', IPA(key): /????te?t/
- (US) enPR: r?'t?t, IPA(key): /??o?te?t/
Verb
rotate (third-person singular simple present rotates, present participle rotating, simple past and past participle rotated)
- (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
- He rotated in his chair to face me.
- (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
- The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
- (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
- The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
- (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
- Rotate the dial to the left.
- (transitive) To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
- 1975, Architectural Digest (volume 32, page 112)
- 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 (volume 32, page 112)
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
Synonyms
- (to turn) revolve
- (to make turn) circumvolve
Derived terms
- rotation
- rotatable
Related terms
- rota
Translations
Adjective
rotate (not comparable)
- Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
- a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla
Anagrams
- terato-, totear
Italian
Verb
rotate
- second-person plural present indicative of rotare
- second-person plural imperative of rotare
- feminine plural of rotato
Anagrams
- attero, attore, ettaro, oretta, teatro
Latin
Verb
rot?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of rot?
rotate From the web:
- what rotates
- what rotates on an axis
- what rotates around the earth
- what rotates around the sun
- what rotates the palm down
- what rotates the scapula
- what rotates in a scroll compressor
- what rotates the earth
disrotatory
English
Etymology
dis- +? rotatory
Adjective
disrotatory (not comparable)
- (organic chemistry) Describing an electrocyclic reaction in which the substituents at the interacting termini of the conjugated system rotate in opposite senses
Synonyms
- suprafacial
Antonyms
- conrotatory
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