English-German translations for rotate

• rotieren
  Aber nicht nur das. Auch die Aktien können noch schneller rotieren. Not only that, but shares can also be rotated even more quickly.
  Wer Fonds nur anbietet, damit der externe Schuldendienst bedient wird, läßt den Teufelskreis nur noch schneller rotieren. Just offering funds to service the external debt simply makes the vicious circle rotate even faster.
  Es war richtig, sie in dem Land stattfinden zu lassen, das den Ratsvorsitz innehatte, genauso wie wir die Tagungen der PPV in den AKP-Staaten rotieren lassen. It was right for us to site it in the country holding the Presidency, just as we rotate our meetings in the JPA in the ACP countries.
• drehen
• durchdrehen
• sich drehen

Definition of rotate

• To spin, turn, or revolve
• To advance through a sequence; to take turns
• To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff
• To spin, turn, or revolve something
• To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns
• To grow or plant in a certain order
• Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped

Synonyms

• revolve
• circumvolve

Examples

• He rotated in his chair to face me.
• The nurses shifts rotate each week.
• The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
• Rotate the dial to the left.
• The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods dont sit around.
• a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla

Related words

• rotation
• rotated
• rotating
• aegrotat
• dextrorotatory
• levorotatory
• rotator
• rotatable
• rotational