Rota vs. Rotate

Rotanoun

(British) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.

Rotanoun

(musical instruments) A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music.

Rotanoun

An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.

Rotanoun

A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.

Rotanoun

A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; - written also rotta.

Rotanoun

(Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts

Rotanoun

a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties

Rotateverb

(intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.

Rotateverb

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

Rotateverb

To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.

Rotateverb

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

Rotateverb

(transitive) To advance something through a sequence.

Rotateverb

(transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.

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(transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.

Rotateadjective

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

Rotateadjective

Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.

Rotateverb

To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.

Rotateverb

To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.

Rotateverb

To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.

Rotateverb

To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.

Rotateverb

turn on or around an axis or a center;

Rotateverb

exchange on a regular basis;

Rotateverb

cause to turn on an axis or center;

Rotateverb

perform a job or duty on a rotating basis;

Rotateverb

turn outward;

Rotateverb

plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession;