rotate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ɹəʊˈteɪt/|/ɹəˈteɪt/    /ˈɹoʊ.teɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To spin, turn, or revolve. intransitive
    — He rotated in his chair to face me.
  2. To advance through a sequence; to take turns. intransitive
    — The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
  3. To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff. intransitive
    — The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
  4. To spin, turn, or revolve something. transitive
    — Rotate the dial to the left.
  5. To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns. transitive
    — 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. To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first. transitive
    — The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.
  7. To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped. not-comparable
    — a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla

词形变化

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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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