{
    "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’."
}