| verb | turn on or around an axis or a center “The Earth revolves around the Sun” |
| verb | exchange on a regular basis “We rotate the lead soprano every night” |
| verb | perform a job or duty on a rotating basis “Interns have to rotate for a few months” |
| verb | cause to turn on an axis or center “Rotate the handle” |
| verb | turn outward “These birds can splay out their toes” |
| verb | plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession “We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil” |
| revolution | noun | a single complete turn (axial or orbital) |
| rotation | noun | the act of rotating as if on an axis |
| rotatory | adjective | of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn |
| circumvolution | noun | the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis |
| turnout | noun | (ballet) the outward rotation of a dancer's leg from the hip |