Word Finder - rotates

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To spin, turn, or revolve.

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He rotated in his chair to face me.

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To advance through a sequence; to take turns.

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The nurses' shifts rotate each week.

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(of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.

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The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.

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To spin, turn, or revolve something.

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Rotate the dial to the left.

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To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.

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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.

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The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.

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

The globe itself rotates within a metallic meridian to which its axis is attached.

In reality the head and foot are fixed and the shell rotates from right to left.

An expedition to the North Pole has nothing to reach unless the earth rotates.

The movement of the zoospore is effected by the lashing of the cilia and is in the direction of the beak, while the zoospore slowly rotates on its long axis at the same time.

The couple T is necessarily accompanied by an equal and opposite couple acting on the frame, which couple endeavours to turn the frame in the opposite direction to that in which the axle rotates.

If the body be supposed to roll - (say to the right) until the curves touch at J, and if JJ=bs, the angle through which the u,pper figure rotates is Is/p +Is/p, and the horizontal displace- V ment, of G is equal to the product of this expression into h.

Neglecting the mass of the shaft itself, when the shaft rotates with an angular velocity a, the centrifugal force Wae/g will act upon the shaft and cause its axis to deflect from the axis of rotation a distance, y say.

Bacterial chemotaxis is brought about by alterations in the direction that the motor rotates in, this in turn is controlled by phosphorylation.

The sound rotates in the horizontal plane, three squares away starting directly to the left of the listener.

Hence when a current is passed through the meter, the armature rotates and increases its speed until the driving force is balanced against the retarding force due to the eddy currents in the copper brake disk.

The relation between the advance and the rotation, which compose the motion of a screw working in contact with a fixed screw or helical guide, has already been demonstrated in 32; and the same relation exists between the magnitudes of the rotation of a screw about a fixed axis and the advance of a shifting nut in which it rotates.

Epicyclic Trains.The term ep-icyclic train is used by Willis to denote a train of wheels carried by an arm, and having certain rotations relatively to that arm, which itself rotates.

While still within the egg-membrane the epiblastic cells become flagellated, and the gastrula rotates within the membrane.

These two principles are defined as reciprocating, for the flat bed which travels backwards and forwards; and rotary, for that which continuously revolves or rotates.

If a planet rotates on its axis so rapidly as to have a considerable ellipticity, and if it has satellites revolving very near the plane of the equator, the combined actions of the sun and of the equatorial protuberances may be such that the whole system will rotate almost as if the planes of revolution of the satellites were solidly fixed to the plane of the equator.

Most weather stations measure wind speed using a spinning cup anemometer, which rotates depending on the wind.

Therefore, the upper anvil rotates while the lower anvil is kept stationary.

It literally revolves around and around, using aphorisms about war and cons as axes upon which the movie almost physically rotates.

The machine rotates quickly around the head of the patient, taking X-ray images whilst a dye is put into the patient's bloodstream.

The screen rotates 270 degrees, from pointing at the ground all the way around (counter clockwise) to facing your subject.

As the piston moves up and down in the cylinder it rotates the crankshaft and converts the straight line motion into rotary motion.

F rotates the icosahedron in various ways apparently looking for pentagon based pyramids on the " left " and " right " hand sides.

The larger inner ring rotates around the horizontal line and the smaller rotates around the vertical line.

In practice, trimming is usually done by a mechanical linkage that rotates the body of the pot with respect to the rotor.

Plasma flows in the dayside outer magnetosphere; the plasma rotates with the planet every 10 hours.

The helve, or main beam of the hammer, rotates freely about the fixed pivot.

It rotates by inserting a screwdriver into the slot in its side.

An electronically controlled circular bed rotates a full 180 degrees to view the breathtaking sunset without lifting a finger.

The aforementioned retaining bar also rotates so would-be thieves can't cut through it with a hacksaw.

The makers availed themselves of Bessel's suggestion to make the segments move in cylindrical slides, and of Struve's to have the head attached to a brass tube; the eye-piece is set permanently in the axis, and the whole rotates in a cradle attached to the declination axis.

The wheel rotates between Phonic the poles of an electro-magnet, which is fed by an intermittent current such as that which is working an electrically maintained tuning-fork (see infra).

Every time a round is played the first person to call rotates clockwise to the next available player.

Rotation The rotation symmetry operation rotates an object about an axis.

The aforementioned retaining bar also rotates so would-be thieves ca n't cut through it with a hacksaw.

It consists of a chamber in which test samples are mounted on a circular carousel which rotates around a xenon arc lamp.

You also want to check that the turntable rotates at the correct speed.

Thomasville rotates out design lines each year.

The grip rotates 360 degrees, making it easy to position the grip as a handle at the edge of the case, a rear grip in the center of the case, or a viewing stand.

This is a great option, particularly if you would prefer a screen saver that rotates images of all your favorite celebrities.

A single handle kitchen faucet rotates so that one way provides hot water and the other direction provides cold water.

A stone wheel rotates over a stationary stone.

The air column rotates violently, and in the most severe tornados can reach speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour or more.

In Whirl Mode, the game rotates 360 degrees, which will make gameplay a little difficult.

There is special solution used that is a higher grade than store-purchased liquids and the disc rotates at an extreme speed so that the entire disc is repaired and cleaned.

Click left wall - Room rotates to the left.

You also get a close-up view of how the screen rotates as you turn the phone.

The doctor inserts a gloved finger into the rectum and rotates it slowly to feel for growths, tumors, or other abnormalities.

X rays are produced in the form of a beam that rotates around the patient.

This rotates around the room as the partners keep up with the rapid pace of this dance style.

The propellor positioned at the front of the plane rotates, and an Indiana Jones figure faces toward the rear of the plane.