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{
"term": "rotate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "rotate",
"heSheIt": "rotates"
},
"pastSimple": "rotated",
"pastParticiple": "rotated",
"ingForm": "rotating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to move or turn around a central fixed point; to make something do this",
"sensetop": "rotate about/around somethingrotate something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Stay well away from the helicopter when its blades start to rotate."
},
{
"text": "winds rotating around the eye of a hurricane",
"contextForm": "rotate about/around something"
},
{
"text": "Rotate the wheel through 180 degrees.",
"contextForm": "rotate something"
},
{
"text": "Make sure that the propellor can rotate freely."
},
{
"text": "Once the starter motor is rotating, you should be able to get the car going."
},
{
"text": "The blades of the fan rotated rapidly above her."
},
{
"text": "The earth takes 24 hours to rotate on its axis."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["quickly", "rapidly", "gently"],
"verb + rotate": ["allow something to"],
"preposition": ["around", "on", "through"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "if a job rotates, or if people rotate a job, they regularly change the job or regularly change who does the job",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.rotate something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The EU presidency rotates among the members.",
"contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "When I joined the company, I rotated around the different sections."
},
{
"text": "We rotate the night shift so no one has to do it all the time.",
"contextForm": "rotate something"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊˈteɪt/",
"audio": "ro/rotate/rotate__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊˈteɪts/",
"audio": "ro/rotate/rotates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊˈteɪtɪd/",
"audio": "ro/rotate/rotated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊˈteɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "ro/rotate/rotating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈrəʊteɪt/",
"audio": "ro/rotate/rotate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈrəʊteɪts/",
"audio": "ro/rotate/rotates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈrəʊteɪtɪd/",
"audio": "ro/rotate/rotated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈrəʊteɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "ro/rotate/rotating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 17th cent.: from Latin rotat- ‘turned in a circle’, from the verb rotare, from rota ‘wheel’."
}