rotate
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /ɹəʊˈteɪt/|/ɹəˈteɪt/
美 /ˈɹoʊ.teɪt/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To spin, turn, or revolve.
— He rotated in his chair to face me.
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To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
— The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
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To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
— The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
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To spin, turn, or revolve something.
— Rotate the dial to the left.
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To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
— 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.
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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.
- To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
形容词 adj.
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Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
— a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla
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词源
词源 1
Borrowed from Latin rotātus, perfect passive participle of rotō (“revolve”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from rota (“wheel”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin rotātus, perfect passive participle of rotō (“revolve”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from rota (“wheel”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
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