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Rotate
- verb - cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"
- exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"
- perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"
- plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
- 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"
- turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
Rotche
- - A very small arctic sea bird (Mergulus alle, or Alle alle) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove.
Rotgut
- noun - any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality
Rother
- - Bovine. -- n. A bovine beast.
Rothko
- noun - United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970)
Rotors
- noun - In meteorology, a turbulent eddy formed in the trough of lee waves in mountainous areas, often associated with severe turbulence.
- rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils; "there are horizontal rotors on a helicopter or compressor rotors in a jet engine"
- the revolving bar of a distributor
- the rotating armature of a motor or generator
Rotted
- verb - become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
- break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"
- damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"
Rotten
- adjective - damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"
- having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his grave"
- Politically corrupt
- very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"
Rotter
- noun - a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"
Rotula
- - The patella, or kneepan.