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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹəʊˈteɪt/, /ɹəˈteɪt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɹoʊ.teɪt/
• (North India) IPA: /roˈʈeʈ/, [ɾoː.ʈeːʈ]
• (South India) IPA: /rɵˈʈeʈ/, [ɾö.ʈeːʈ]
• 韻: -eɪt

動詞

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.

   The earth rotates.

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”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 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.

使用する際の注意点

"Rotate about" implies that the object is spinning in place (i.e. the defined axis passes through through some internal point of the object), while "rotate around" implies that the object is orbiting an external point.

Conjugation

同意語

• (to turn) revolve
• (to make turn) circumvolve

派生語

関連する語

• crop-rotate
• rota

派生した語

• → Finnish: rotatoida

形容詞

rotate (not comparable)

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

   a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla

派生語

アナグラム

• tore at, totear, terato-, treato