Rota vs. Rotate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rota and Rotate
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Rota
Chiefly British A roll call or roster of names.
Rotate
To turn around on an axis or center.
Rota
Chiefly British A round or rotation of duties.
Rotate
To proceed in sequence; take turns or alternate
Interns will rotate through the various departments.
Rota
Rota Roman Catholic Church A tribunal of prelates that serves as an ecclesiastical court.
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Rotate
To cause to turn on an axis or center.
Rota
(British) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
Rotate
To plant or grow (crops) in a fixed order of succession.
Rota
(musical instruments) A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music.
Rotate
To cause to alternate or proceed in sequence
The coach rotates her players frequently near the end of the game.
Rota
An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
Rotate
Having radiating parts; wheel-shaped.
Rota
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.
Rotate
(intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
He rotated in his chair to face me.
The earth rotates.
Rota
A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; - written also rotta.
Rotate
(intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
Rota
(Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts
Rotate
To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
Rota
A roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties
Rotate
(transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
Rotate the dial to the left.
Rotate
(transitive) To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
Rotate
(transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.
Rotate
(transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
Rotate
Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
A rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla
Rotate
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.
Rotate
To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
Rotate
To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
Rotate
To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
Rotate
To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
Rotate
Turn on or around an axis or a center;
The Earth revolves around the Sun
The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire
Rotate
Exchange on a regular basis;
We rotate the lead soprano every night
Rotate
Cause to turn on an axis or center;
Rotate the handle
Rotate
Perform a job or duty on a rotating basis;
Interns have to rotate for a few months
Rotate
Turn outward;
These birds can splay out their toes
Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees
Rotate
Plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession;
We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil
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