different between rotate vs yaw

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)

1. (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.

   He rotated in his chair to face me.

2. (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.

   The nurses' shifts rotate each week.

3. (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.

   The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.

4. (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.

   Rotate the dial to the left.

5. (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.

6. (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.

7. (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)

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

   a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla

Anagrams

• terato-, totear

Italian

Verb

rotate

1. second-person plural present indicative of rotare
2. second-person plural imperative of rotare
3. feminine plural of rotato

Anagrams

• attero, attore, ettaro, oretta, teatro

Latin

Verb

rot?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of rot?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: yô, IPA^(key): /j??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: yore, your, you're (non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Compare to yar.

Noun

yaw (plural yaws)

1. The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
2. The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
3. (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
4. The extent of yawing, the rotation angle about the vertical axis

   the yaw of an aircraft

Translations

Verb

yaw (third-person singular simple present yaws, present participle yawing, simple past and past participle yawed)

1. (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
2. (intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
3. (intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
   • 1867, James Russell Lowell, Fireside Travels

     Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.

4. (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

Translations

See also

• heading
• pitch
• roll
• surge
• scend

Etymology 2

Noun

yaw (plural yaws)

1. A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
   • 1770, William Northcote, The Marine Practice of Physic and Surgery (page 408)

     Sometimes there remains one large Yaw, high and knobbed, red and moist; this is called the master Yaw; […]

Anagrams

• 'way, -way, Way, way, wya

Kalasha

Conjunction

yaw

1. or

Synonyms

• khoyo

Matal

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn. Cognate with Wandala yawe, Podoko y?wa, Moloko yàm, etc.

Noun

yaw

1. water

References

• Topics in Chadic linguistics 3, volume 3 (2007), page 56

Middle English

Pronoun

yaw

1. Alternative form of yow

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *jaw (“market”). Cognate with Khasi ïew (“market”), taïew (“week”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaw/

Noun

yaw

1. market
2. week