different between rotate vs twisting
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
twisting
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tw?st??/
Verb
twisting
- present participle of twist
Noun
twisting (countable and uncountable, plural twistings)
- (countable) gerund of twist
- 1984, Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
- She was oblivious of all around her, and her facial twistings and scrunchings were droll.
- 1984, Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
- (uncountable) The disreputable practice of selling unnecessary insurance to a customer in order to earn commission.
- 1985, The Federal Reporter (second series, volume 756, page 219):
- Twisting benefits an insurance agent while damaging the customer. The agent benefits because the commission earned on the sale of a new health insurance policy is substantially higher than that earned on the renewal of an existing policy.
- 1985, The Federal Reporter (second series, volume 756, page 219):
Adjective
twisting
- Having many twists
- The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road.
Translations
twisting From the web:
- what is meant by twisting
- what twisting force
- twisting what i say
- twisting what the bible teaches us
- twisting what you say
- twisting what does mean
- what is twisting in insurance
- what is twisting moment
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