rotate

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I can pan, zoom, and rotate it effortlessly.

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Quick take

turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of rotate gathered in one view.

verb

turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"

verb

exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"

verb

perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rotate.

verb

turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"

verb

exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"

verb

perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"

verb

cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"

verb

turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"

verb

plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"

Example sentences

I can pan, zoom, and rotate it effortlessly.

It's scary just how much of their politics rotate around that.

No, if you rotate the mirror 90 degrees it still inverts left/right and not top/bottom.

Sure, you can pinch and zoom and rotate with some fingers, but that's all at the app level in iOS.

Enable them, and setup a job to rotate your session ticket keys once a day.

You rotated it by turning it in the horizontal plane. If you had rotated it in the vertical plane, the word would be flipped vertically.

If I grow bored of something I can reasonably rotate to something new and different within 6 months.

To show the paper to yourself via the mirror, you rotated the paper so that the text is now facing away from you, towards the mirror.

I would prefer that the public defenders office and the DA office have to rotate their staff out to eachother... so you cannot just serve as a DA.

Perhaps you should take your bar, rotate it 90 degrees, and stick it on the side where there's space for it!Sincerely,An ungrateful, lazy, bad person who just can't be pleased.

It uses gears on the inside to pull a regularroll of film through and expose it through a narrow vertical slit as you rotate the whole camera on its center axis.

Staff incentives which are not structured around focusing 100% on one product until it exits or dies, but instead encourage staff to rotate within the slowcubator's companies to where they are currently needed most.

From that alone, I bet he forgot to turn of the "optimize my ads" setting from Google and switch on "rotate evenly".The "optimize my ads" feature sounds like a good thing to leave checked, but like most things is designed to make Google more money.